Afterlife with a diy vactrol

[danwelsh]

Hi guys, I just finished this and love the way this compressor spruces things up.  I rolled my own vactrol for this circuit with a red led and photocell. Just deciding what to do for my graphic

[jimilee]

How does it sound? I've found vactrols to be very clean sounding so far,and I love compressors.

[danwelsh]

Very very clean jimilee......i like it

[gordo]

I've built it as the stock AL and am finding that I use it for clean and gainier clean sounds.  The only time it's not on is when I want a real balls out drive sound.  It tends to make drive stuff a little thinner sounding (I know that doesn't make sense).  The thing I like about this compressor versus every other one is that it responds really well to volume changes on the guitar.  I can set it to boost the level a bit and make my little Vox go bonkers and then pull it back to sparkling clean with a slight drop of the guitar volume.  More noticeable on single coils.  It's also fairly quiet, even in front of a booster.

[nzCdog]

Great job man, pedal looks good as is... no graphics required IMO