Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Tuesday, 26 May 2026
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
Boss CS-3 Compressor / Madbean Oracle
Another great contribution by Chris Stelloh!
This is a layout drawn from the Madbean Oracle project, which is, essentially the Boss CS-3 compression sustainer. I really like the sound of VCA-driven compressors, especially on sampled drum sounds. This Boss pedal has been around for about 40 years, and the Madbean version makes a few slight modifications to it based on stuff people have done attempting to improve the sound quality and lower the noise. I included a list of part values that are most commonly swapped to make this more bass guitar friendly.
This one is verified and good to go.
Friday, 23 August 2024
Monday, 18 March 2024
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Carlin Compressor/Fuzz
A old swedish compressor and fuzz with an unique discrete design that I havenä't seen haven't seen anywhere else. Raraly cloned except for Creepy Fingers that did a small run a few years ago.
This layout is modified for true bypass.
Sunday, 3 September 2023
Monday, 15 May 2023
DOD Compressor 280
Yet another compressor, this time an optical one. The specified vactrol is quite expensive and hard to get hold of nowadays but you can roll your own using a LDR with 1M dark resistance and green diffused LED.
Sunday, 14 May 2023
Friday, 12 May 2023
Ross Compressor
Requested by Tom.
It is based on MXR Dyna Comp but has some extra bits mainly for addidtional power and Vref filtering for Q1 and the OTA IC. So I had to add two extra rows but it will still fit in a 1590b box without problem.
Monday, 8 May 2023
MXR Dyna Comp
Figured out after doing the Aion aurora a couple of days ago, why not doing a layout of its ancestor, MXR Dyna Comp...
Friday, 5 May 2023
Sunday, 22 January 2023
Thursday, 18 August 2022
Sunday, 10 July 2022
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Maestro MFZT-1 Fuzztain
Per request. A slightly modernized take on a Moog designed Fuzz/compressor hailing back from the 70s. The signal path remains true to the original but the rotary switch has been removed in favour for a variable fuzz control. And the two compressor settings is now fed through a toggle switch. The CD4007AE IC might be hard to source but it is avaiable at Ebay.
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Sunday, 27 March 2022
Electro Harmonix Deluxe Big Muff - EH3054C version
The late EH3054C version of the vintage Deluxe Big Muff. Some improvements had to be done like true bypass and common voltage refrence.
Schematic is avaiable HERE.
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Univox CO-105 Uni-Comp
A quite simple old japanese compressor by Univox. For part substitutions (since stock parts is long gone obsolete...) the transistor were a low gain NPN silicon so PN2222 or 2N3903 should work. MD234 were silicon signal diodes so 1N4148s is a near enough sub. The spec of the original vactrol remains unknown so socketing a LED/LDR combo seems to be a wise decision.
Schematic, gutshots and info at FSB.



















