[sdiy] Automatic gain correction for Overdrive

[Peter Snow]

Hi Florian,

Something that may interest you is a circuit from Electronic Musician, January 1987 call the
"Fuzzstain".
It used a CLM6000 to provide a sort of compression that smoothed out the sound level as the fuzz
increased in gain.
I never built the device but I have a rather poor jpg of it I can send you if you're interested.  If
you can wait a while, I may be able to find the whole original article and scan it all for you (if
the mice haven't eaten it!).

Cheers,

Peter


Fortner Florian wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I wonder if this has ever been discussed (then please recap it for me :-P ):
> How can I cope with the strong loudness change in an overdrive circuit? If
> you turn up an analog Overdrive it gets far louder, so you have to play with
> the volume knob all the time. Is there any common approach? One can perhaps
> do it with an additional VCA, but I'd like a method where the gain reduction
> can be integrated with the overdrive. If anyone ever has done this I would
> be happy to hear from him!
> 
> regards,
> 
> flo     (at the moment still learning and only asking nasty questions, but a
> VERY BIG FAN OF THIS GREAT LIST!!!)