LukeFRC

How much is it? Worth rescuing and making look beautiful?

They are very different style compressors. Lusithand is optical and a similar style to the Diamond Bass compressor -which has just been reissued and maybe worth adding to your list, I ended up with a Broughton Omnicomp, also optical style but which is a bit more tweakable.

What does it do (honest question)

It’s a shame it’s going back, if t helps the pcb looks like it’s held on via the switches and pots so repair wouldn’t be too hard (100kA pot of whatever size they are, they look like smaller pots from the solder pad spacing?) I read somewhere that the problem with the meatball is that it was so flexible it was hard to find your ideal settings again, did you find that?

A TRS to xlr cable or adapt or would be simplest - if it were me, and in the spirit of this thread, I would be doing TRS-TRS cable into a 1590a with TRS in and XLR out and stick it on the underside of my board

Probably not - if Boss could they maybe would have done.

That was what I noticed too!

there's three FETs in there 2x J201 and a 2N5457 - the trimmers are to bias them. The sag then underbias the 2N5457 Circuit is stupidly similar to the Barbershop except the Barbershop (v1) the bias under biases all 3 J201. Doesn't sound the same though.

There’s two chips TLC2272 I think would be the likely suspects - It looks all SMT?

But built up fine in a 1590b with top jacks … not masses of wiggle room though!! blue bits are tape on the back of pots and the input Jack. sounds great - I built a barbershop clone (v1) and the circuit is very similar - this is like it’s big heavier brother tonally, plus with eq

Which due to me being an idiot had one small mistake

So I made my own pcb

Threats and blanking people is not a good place to be. Volunteering to play Music isn’t that important. If I were your pastor I would possibly start with the planks before looking at the drummer’s timekeeping specks.

you realise the first stage of a mixing desk channel is a preamp? unamplified orchestra or folk I get where you’re coming from, but if you want a very clean approach for acoustic then there are preamps that will do that. Grace Felix comes to mind. Where you do have a point I think is that everything does something to your tone - bass forums are quite good at jumping on the latest greatest thing but less good at articulating what the desirable thing it’s doing is and why and for what kind of music.

Mids are a bit pointless unless they are semi parametric in my mind. Broughton SV pre or some other SVT a like, with the gain backed off?

Beta if you want more bass, @Osiris, beta 5 to dial that out... Fairfield Barbershop I like (I built a clone) same sort of idea comparing it to the Beta... my main question is - if you've tried half a dozen pedals and settled on the Spark, why are you still looking? If it sounds good, it is good

Forgive me - but I think the turn of phrase “only using 10% of what it can do” is a turn of phrase rather than statistically accurate analysis. I had a hx stomp, I could replace what I was using for with 3 pedals (one of which was a tuner) - I think my use case is closer to what people mean than yours! I possibly should have kept it

Just go without drums. And perspective - separate your annoyance of a person being awful at time keeping from the technical desire to have good music and play with musicians. Also , and generally, how do you communicate? - for important and less group stuff I've found I do what I would at work and email an meeting invites so with times etc - that way it can go directly in their diary on their phone

Aye right

Balls who forgot to get a 2n5089

11/16 inch sounds roughly imperial equivalent... it's a 1997 model

about 17.5mm

you need a bigger board

Alma at 90 degrees, octave up, Fuzz in middle at 90 degrees... ?

Here goes!! own pcb layout in a 1590b (all top jacks obv)