I've always liked the tone benders, and thought that it would be fun to build a few with differing component choices and various transistors. Over the last few months, I've made about twenty of the things - all slightly different. I've extensively played through them, and have chosen the two or three that sound best (to my ears). The very best is shown here - it's a smoothed silicon bender, and just sounds great! All the other prototypes were put into diecast boxes and given to musician friends...

Transistors are BC549B (Q1) and 2N3906 (Q2 & Q3). Transformer is 3.6:1+1. It's not mine, but I might be able to get another look at it sometime if there are questions.

Has anybody played around with the Shure Level Loc Compressor circuit before? I has popped up on a few pro audio forums ( here & here ) and I was surprised to see that it runs on a 9V single supply.

I cut out just the compressor part from irfrench's 500-series version & built it up on the breadboard. Holy squish!!! This thing is like a tone trampoline. It clamps down HARD on the signal & has a much less transparent crunch to it than other FET compressors like the Rothwell Love Squeeze or Jon...

From Rift Amplification instagram account....

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