Hi guys, I just finished this and love the way this compressor spruces things up. I rolled my own vactrol for this circuit with a red led and photocell. Just deciding what to do for my graphic :)
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How does it sound? I've found vactrols to be very clean sounding so far,and I love compressors.
Very very clean jimilee......i like it
I've built it as the stock AL and am finding that I use it for clean and gainier clean sounds. The only time it's not on is when I want a real balls out drive sound. It tends to make drive stuff a little thinner sounding (I know that doesn't make sense). The thing I like about this compressor versus every other one is that it responds really well to volume changes on the guitar. I can set it to boost the level a bit and make my little Vox go bonkers and then pull it back to sparkling clean with a slight drop of the guitar volume. More noticeable on single coils. It's also fairly quiet, even in front of a booster.
Great job man, pedal looks good as is... no graphics required IMO 8)