I have a couple dbx 118s and really love the sound of them but without any sort of makeup gain I find them almost un-usable for me. I did a search here and found mention of adding makep gain using the 1176 gain design or something to that effect. Does anyone have any hints, ideas, or experience in this? I'm a bit of a newbie so trying to design something like this myself would be difficult. Thanks for the hints.