# dbx Stereo Compressor

> This dynamics entry consolidates documented dbx Stereo Compressor variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/dbx-stereo-compressor/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Dynamics
- **Types:** Compressor, Limiter
- **Also known as:** dbx 162, dbx compression
- **Controls:** Compression, Output, Stereo coupling, Threshold
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 1 board, 1978

A black rack dynamics processor with paired channel controls and gain-reduction metering.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Zappa | Blue Box four-output effects system | 1978-01-01 | 6 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/frank-zappa/blue-box-four-output-rig-1978/ |