Tuesday, April 20, 2010

DIY Audio Compressor: Part 2

After several revisions to the schematic and many iterations of the board layout, its all finally done. The whole package looks and sound great. I had the pleasure of using it to track some vocals some weeks ago and the compressor really imparted a warmer sound. I think I may have to work out a way to incorporate some sort of decibel or clipping meter to prevent over driving the 5532. That said, the overdrive isn't really distasteful. Check out the pics bellow, I've included the final schematic and pc layout.

1 comment:

MoT said...

Hi!

I know it has been a long time, but does this design
actually work? I want to build a compressor (probably two for r and l signal) and found this. Have there been any revision and do you recommend it or should
I build something else. I need a compressor for studio usage so it needs to be versatile I guess.