Any effect pedal mimicking the DBX 165 compressor?

geso

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Have just stumbled upon this compressor in Logic, was quite impressed with the sound. Would be great to have it in a guitar pedal format. Were the any approaches to build a similar thing as a stompbox?
 
I noticed this meanwhile but the PCB is unavailable from the store as I have seen.

The chip, that one I have. I have a Carl Martin compressor, I don't mind soldering it out. That compressor is not a very good one.
 
If you dont care for a DIY then there is:
For me what matters is the Auto Release/Attack setting and the Overeasy function from the DBX 165. This one linked reminds me of the Carl Martin Compressor/Limiter, another VCA with the THAT chip, that has such a summarized Attack/Release knob called Response, but I didn't find it useful for my needs. The Carl Martin compressor suffers from very serious breathing effect, knocking effect on transients, very difficult to set up properly, never could. So I have a suspicion it is very far from the real DBX compressor behavior. IF the linked one is a Carl Martin variant, one warning sign in that as the manual says the DBX uses 3ms Attack in certain situations, the Carl Martin cannot go lower than 12ms. If this applies to the Becos, then it won't get me closer to what I need.

I appreciate that you are trying to help though.
 
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