Really great vid on building simple compressor

[iomegaman]

You2be surfing and caught this video by Moritz Klein, he went to the trouble of including animations and follows everything in the schematics...if you want a decent intro or a refresher on compressors and how/why they are implemented this is an amazing demonstration.

Watch it here

 

[warpie]

Thanks. Will check it later.

 

[My3gger]

Have to watch it until the end, so far it looks well made and easy to understand. Gyraf and Ian (Ruffrecords, i believe his is still online) are great at explaining it at more advanced level. PRR has done great job about tube version found here on the forum.

 

[richiyobs]

You2be surfing and caught this video by Moritz Klein, he went to the trouble of including animations and follows everything in the schematics...if you want a decent intro or a refresher on compressors and how/why they are implemented this is an amazing demonstration.

Watch it here

It s a great and cool demo! At first look the diode vca seems arranged as the summarized version of U273 in sound au article about vca....
I tried it in my first attempt for a diode bridge compressor... But no good results since I m still a beginner!
Thanks for this link... Still watching
Best

 

[Michael Tibes]

Here's his schematic. I'd be interested in whether this might work? Pros / cons?

Michael

 

[richiyobs]

Here's his schematic. I'd be interested in whether this might work? Pros / cons?

Michael

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Is that a simulation? If so can you upload any results?
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[Michael Tibes]

It is a simulation, but not mine. It is published on YouTube by the author of the video: https://tinyurl.com/2qj8o66t
I did not yet have time to dive into it, so I don't have any results myself. The video posted above is pretty detailed though. I just wonder how the comp might handle complex signals. The author seems to come from a Synthesizer background and what might sound great on a monophonic synth voice might not work on a vocal track ;-)

Michael

 

[richiyobs]

tried a quick sim on LT, not used to Falstad....
the circuit works, hoped to have a better behavior
anyone else tried it?

best

 

[musipol]

I did not simulate this(or build it), but wouldn't you get more control V feedthru, since this diode comp is not implemented differentially?

 

[richiyobs]

i wanted to leave as it is to understand that design
maybe more CV is really needed, at extreme settings it goes a bit over 800mV

 

[freshtapescent]

I did not simulate this(or build it), but wouldn't you get more control V feedthru, since this diode comp is not implemented differentially?

It looks like CV feeds both sides of the diode string, and one side is inverted. CV feed through would be a function of diode balance?