DAN ARMSTRONG™ ORANGE SQUEEZER™ REPLICA COMPLETE KIT

A complete kit for a replica of the Dan Armstrong™ Orange Squeezer™, a simple, easy-to-build compressor with a great sound. Everything is included, PCB and all.

About the effect

The original Orange Squeezer™ plugged straight into the guitar; this version adapts it to a standard stompbox format. Stompbox folklore links it to Mark Knopfler and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, and you can hear that kind of smooth, sustaining compressed guitar on Dire Straits' "Sultans of Swing" and on Baxter's solos on the Doobie Brothers' Takin' It to the Streets. It is a short parts list, so it makes a good early build.

See a YouTube video demo from Paul Crook (it is the second demo on the video, with harmonics, played dry first and then with the OSQ).

What you get

The kit includes all the parts and materials you need to build one, including the PCB. Choose an enclosure:

• 125B: the standard size enclosure. Spec sheets: 125B and 125B with no external volume control.
• 1590B: the smaller enclosure. Spec sheets: 1590B and 1590B with no external volume control.
• No Enclosure: everything except the enclosure.

The project page has layouts for both an external volume knob and an internal trimmer volume, which is why each enclosure has two drilling patterns.

Build resources

• Complete instructions for this kit
• Orange Squeezer™ build instructions (PDF)
• Schematic (PDF)
• Parts layout and wiring diagram, external volume control (PDF)
• General information about our kits

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