Some Possible Value Mods for the Simple Opto Compressor

There is another builder/designer Jon who has experimented with a number of my compressor circuits. He recommends a lower value for R1 of around 22k instead of the 100k in the schematic. This will lower the max compression a little, but will help with stray capacitance roll-off of high end.  It should work fine.  It will load the guitar pickups a little with heavy compression. Also the diode peak detector is biased in a more linear range by changing R8 and R6  from 470k to 47k and C7 from 1uF to 10uF. I think these values will work a little better.

Over my choices are:  100K for R1,  47K for R6 and 10uF for C7

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