Just finished my Orange Squeezer

[trjones1]

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who answered my questions on here, your replies really helped me out.  In the three weeks since I've discovered this forum I've gone from making fuzz faces on those preprinted circuit boards from radio shack to etching my own boards and finishing my boxes nicely (I used the Staples Picture Paper to transfer the PCB pattern to the board and it worked perfectly).  I've been pretty lucky recently with my boxes firing right up without too much fiddling.

The orange squeezer is pretty subtle.  It took me a few minutes of playing to even figure out what it was doing.  It seems to have the most effect in taming the initial pick attacks when you hit the strings, followed by an almost imperceptable swell.  It's nice, though, I didn't want to turn it off.

I was surprised with how much gain I could get with the volume control all the way up.  It was too much!  This could be because I used mpf102's for the JFETs.  I also used an NTE778 for the opamp because it was the only one I could find locally (and I fried the 1458 I tried to take out of an old dead pedal).  I'm going to order a few more IC's to experiment with and hopefully get a better tone.

Again, just wanted to say thanks.

[MartyMart]

Hey glad you like it !
I think mine is fantastic ! "subtle" maybe, but it does something to my rig/tone  and I just dont want to turn it off !!
Just did some recording with a quite serious "session" guitarist, he now wants one too  !!
Well done, try a "dyna comp" for some more variation too, thats nice.

Marty.

[inverseroom]

Hmm... I think my Orange Squeezer is about the unsubtlest compressor I've ever heard!  Perhaps I've got my trimpot cranked.  But I agree that it's a great little box.

Working on my Red Ranger this weekend, and a Blue Clipper's on the back burner...

[MartyMart]

Hmm... I think my Orange Squeezer is about the unsubtlest compressor I've ever heard!  Perhaps I've got my trimpot cranked.  But I agree that it's a great little box.

Working on my Red Ranger this weekend, and a Blue Clipper's on the back burner...

Yup true ! it does depend where your trimmer is set, but I like it so you can just hear it clipping the "picks" and giving a slight "bloom" to chords

Great though !
Marty.