Guitar FX Layouts

Here's a collection of vero (stripboard) and tagboard guitar and bass effect layouts that we have put together covering many classic and popular effects in growing numbers. Many of these have been posted on freestompboxes.org, so check that site out for great discussions on building your own effect pedals. Enjoy the builds and please also visit us on Facebook and Twitter

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Showing posts with label Compressor. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Compressor. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 March 2020

EarthQuaker Devices The Warden

Original Info: The Warden is an optical compressor with a feature set usually reserved for studio grade units. Built with high grade compo...

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Guyatone PS-021 Guitar Exciter / Compressor

A vintage pedal from the 80s. I've removed the flip flop switching system and buffers (thanks Zach for the help). Hopefully it will fi...

Sunday, 16 April 2017

Way Huge Saffron Squeeze MKI

A modified Ross Compressor. Two simple controls sustain and level. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a video for the MKI, but a...

Monday, 13 March 2017

Univox Uni-Comp

Not much info on this one, but basically it was a compressor made by Univox in the 70's as part of their "foot" series. Seems ...

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Electro Harmonix Black Finger Compressor/Sustainer

Here is a layout for the older version of EH Black Finger. You can find the original FSB thread here . I've used Pedalgrinder slightly...

Monday, 30 May 2016

Korg CMP-1 / Yamaha CO-01 Compressor

Here is a layout for a vintage compressor. Schematic is available on FSB forum here . Couldn't find any good videos around. It has b...

Friday, 20 May 2016

LM13700 Janglebox

I seem to have gotten a bad CA3080 and noticed another poster did as well, so I decided to modify Mark's Janglebox layout to accommod...

Friday, 22 April 2016

THAT Jam Compressor

Here is a DIY project similar to the Carl Martin Compressor Limiter. There are 2 layouts: a large one that works at 9V and a smaller one wh...

Saturday, 27 February 2016

Madbean Holy Roller / Baja Optical Limiter

This is Brian's version of Bajaman Optical Limiter. Here you can find the original thread. Note: You could swap D3 with 100R resi...

Friday, 29 January 2016

5-knob Compressor

Drew this one up some time ago and thought i'd post it up. It's basically Mark's layout for Keeley 4-knob style compressor with ...

Sunday, 6 July 2014

Diamante Compressor

I'll add a Diamond Compressor layout at some point, but this one was a must for me and I'm surprised it's taken me this long to ...

Saturday, 21 June 2014

Janglebox

A few people have asked for this. It's pretty obvious what it's based on but I definitely think it's worth a build even if you ...

Thursday, 15 May 2014

DOD FX80B Compressor Sustainer

I'm slowly recovering from some sort of an drawer's block. Simply couldn't get any layout to look decent enough to publish. Our ...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

BJFE Pale Green Compressor

From John K. Info about the original: This compressor captures the natural feel of your amp and speakers compressing as they are pushed.Th...

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Really Simple Transistor Compressor

Friday, 18 January 2013

Bearhug FET Compressor

Jon Patton's Bearhug FET Compressor (Yeah! That's the same cool dude who demoed Valvewizard's Engineer's Thumb a while back!...

Monday, 24 December 2012

DOD 280 Compressor

Here we go with another classic optical compressor. Original unit uses VTL5C2, so could get away with using any LDR with 1M dark resistance....

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Engineer's Thumb

Request, with CA3080 instead of LM13700 (but you can use the conversion daughterboard to allow you to use the LM13700 if you prefer). Des...

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Emma TransMORGrifier

Info about the original pedal: A compressor pedal incorporating the best attributes of classic pedals while simultaneously eliminating the...

Saturday, 21 July 2012

Keeley 4-Knob Compressor

So close to the Ross Compressor that the 2-knob versions seems to be essentially verbatim, but I thought the 4 knob version was worth adding...

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