Turning a compressor/limiter into an overdrive?

briggs · Post by **briggs** » 31 Jul 2007, 17:32

I've read about many people doing this (Clay's OD is based around this sort of theory I believe) but have absolutly no idea how to do it!

Any suggestions? Reading? Ideas?

Rangemaster · Post by **Rangemaster** » 01 Aug 2007, 14:15

briggs wrote: Any suggestions? Reading? Ideas?

Hi,

A reading idea could be:
Converting Flatline Compressor to Punchline Expander
Which can be found here: http://hammer.ampage.org/?cmd=lt&xid=&fid=&ex=&pg=5 near the bottom of the page.

Greetings,

Rangemaster

briggs · Post by **briggs** » 01 Aug 2007, 14:27

Cheers, I'll give that a read.

kagaxdx · Post by **kagaxdx** » 01 Aug 2007, 14:39

Hope this may help too...

https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/ ... #msg393495

briggs · Post by **briggs** » 01 Aug 2007, 14:50

very nice! I have a few ideas I'd like to try now - it could result in a very unusual sounding overdrive

grolschie · Post by **grolschie** » 01 Aug 2007, 20:53

Stupid question from a n00b: What about adding clipping diodes?

bajaman · Post by **bajaman** » 01 Aug 2007, 20:59

NO - that would give you a distortion pedal

bajaman