Designing a production-ready audio compressor

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Build your own as a DIY eurorack kit: https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/diy-kits-1/edu-diy-compressor/ Support the channel... ... through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/moritzklein ... by buying my other DIY kits: https://www.ericasynths.lv/shop/diy-kits-1/ Simulation in CircuitJS: https://tinyurl.com/2nr4f72k Join my Discord community: https://discord.gg/KCwpyAsFpb In this episode, we'll DIY our way towards a production-ready audio compressor circuit, based on the simple compressor I developed in my previous video. If you want to build along, here's the bill of materials: Resistors 470k x2 330k x1 220k x1 120k x1 100k x11 47k x1 33k x4 20k x1 10k x4 3k3 x4 2k x1 470Ω x 1 200Ω x 1 Capacitors 1.5µF (film/foil) x3 680pF (681) x1 Diodes 1N4148 (signal) x13 Transistors 2N3904 (NPN) x5 Potentiometers 1M x1 500k x1 100k x2 20k x1 10k x1 ICs TL074 (quad op amp) x1 TL072 (dual op amp) x2 LEDs 3mm (red) x5 Chapters: 00:00 Intro & Gain Reduction Indicator 05:17 Full Wave Rectifier 08:36 Attack Mode Switch 11:16 Variable Input Gain 14:00 Variable Make-Up Gain 15:51 LED-based VU meter 18:53 Assembly & demo