anyone using the out pot on the 1176?

[petrol vendor]

i have the feeling this pot will be turned all up 99% of the time for me. Anyone feels different? how are you using the controlls?
I also feel i will never turn up the in pot more than half. Maybe i´ll add a series resistor or lower the gain of the input debalancing amp.

 

[hop.sing]

i have the feeling this pot will be turned all up 99% of the time for me. Anyone feels different? how are you using the controlls?
I also feel i will never turn up the in pot more than half. Maybe i´ll add a series resistor or lower the gain of the input debalancing amp.

I have the feeling something might be wrong with the fixed threshold setting in your 1176. A properly working 1176 would have too much gain with the pot full up while doing moderate compression. You would clip everything afterwards and probably itself, too.

 

[Hank Dussen]

Something must be wrong with either the compressor or you setup.
The output pot on mine (rev A and D) is mostly around 12 'o clock and that's loud enough to get unity gain after compression.

 

[petrol vendor]

and so your answers have lead me to a fault in my unit:
I replaced the FDH333 with another high quality diode couse i couldn´t get the specified part. BAT42 i think it was. So my threshold is propably at half the voltage than it should be.

 

[gyraf]

Yes, the BAT42 shottky diode has waaaaaayy to large a reverse leakage current for this purpose. We NEED the ultra-low leakage of the FD333 (or FD300)

Jakob E.

 

[petrol vendor]

i found a shop selling them. Interesting how important this is right here.