This is my experience with compressors. I needed a lot of help from my Dad. Together we took a schematic and designed a board, and I asked the valve wizard some questions. I did all of the soldering, graphics, layout, etc. He drilled the box, helped order parts, got out his ancient oscilloscope, etc… but we troubleshooted together. At one point my Dad said, “if I can’t figure it out, there is no way you can.” It was not his finest moment. We got through it though.
I sometimes get ahead of myself here on the forums. I don’t really think that my views are solid, but I have to find my own ways to integrate information. So far I have done zero programming in Audulus. I have a messed up view of logic, which gets in the way of things. However, I am not so sure that formal logic is ‘complete’ in its contemporary form, even though it is the basis for our technological explosion.