Hello people, it's been a while since i logged in this forum. I'm currently typing from my phone because my PC motherboard "accidentally" touched a bad ground from a USB mixer and blew out , here is the problem: i've worked for a few days with 3 high power PA systems and had to repair 3 times the HF compression drivers because the people behind the console were too busy to hear the pain coming from the speakers and left the volume way too high. The problem is that no matter how many time I get there and lower their volumes saying that the have to adjust it to the CD that's playing because they are recorded by other peoples and they have too much of dynamic range to blew speakers... I've spent some days burning transistors and stuff trying to build a simple audio compressor. It's made of one peak detector, a strange thing done with diodes that I don't know how it works but it does and lastly a simple class A Amp. Amy suggestion on how I can improve it? On the oscilloscope it doesn't seems so linear and compress only bass frequencies.. And yep I've burned out 4 germanium diodes so now I can't test anymore. Hope you understand my bad english
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