Do you use a compressor pedal?

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Do you use a compressor?

  • Yes

    Votes: 20 54.1%

  • No

    Votes: 16 43.2%

  • What's a Compressor?

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Total voters
    37
TelePaul

TelePaul

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Or rack-mounted unit? It's probably my useful pedal even though it takes some tweaking. Love it on cleans with some delay.
 
Good call, Sir. I'm a huge fan of the comp/delay combo. Throw in a little chorus (low rate) and spring reverb and you've got yourself a keeper.
 
Have a Keeley and a Boss CS-2. Also use a DBX 266 rack unit (only thing it's good for). The Keeley is the new toy so I use it the most currently.:D
 
still use my Ibanez comp pedal from 1981! (for guitar/bass).....glad that I always have it on, stupid FET switch stopped working in 1982!
 
Creamyapples1 said:
Good call, Sir. I'm a huge fan of the comp/delay combo. Throw in a little chorus (low rate) and spring reverb and you've got yourself a keeper.[/QUO

This sounds like a typical set up for me too, especially for my live set up. Our bass player likes a little compression too.
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I'm using a Keeley modded AD9 Analog Delay and an EH #1 Echo Digital Delay with a DOD Milk Box Comp, with a slew of others through a Princeton Chorus. By far my favorite setup to date.
 
I use a aphex punch factory and also a focusrite penta.
 
The only problem I've run into is setting it up for a good tone and feel and then having it not work well (digs in too hard) when you turn up for a section.
By rights it would be cool to have the thing before your volume knob. :D
 
mixsit said:
The only problem I've run into is setting it up for a good tone and feel and then having it not work well (digs in too hard) when you turn up for a section.
By rights it would be cool to have the thing before your volume knob. :D
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I use a volume pedal with the compressor upstream of it.
 
mixsit said:
The only problem I've run into is setting it up for a good tone and feel and then having it not work well (digs in too hard) when you turn up for a section.
By rights it would be cool to have the thing before your volume knob. :D
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I agree, you have to have a couple of pre-sets in mind depending on how you want to sound.
 
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Jeez this one was a while back...since posting this I've picked up a Les Paul which sonds awful with my Boss CS 3 - probably because the mahogany susains plenty as it is. My new favourite set up is a Tele with a CS3 into a Fender Champion 600 set at about 7 on the low input. Awesomeness!
 
Carl Martin com/limiter. The box is kinda klunky, the sound is not. All the crush AND the tone. 120 volts. NO wart.
 
multi FX pedal and rack mount but I dont use compressor I let the sound guy determine if compression is needed or not.
 
I hate comps on guitar. If my tube amp is set right that alone provides the little bit of compression I need.
 
I love me some Boss CS3 on electric guitar. Although from recent threads on the subject, I seem to use it a bit differently than a lot of other users. It's an integral part of several of the tones that I like to generate from my rig, mainly solo tones. Not a full-time effect for me though.
 
Lt. Bob said:
I hate comps on guitar. If my tube amp is set right that alone provides the little bit of compression I need.
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Well said. You're smart, I like you.

I use a compressor, an opto modded Boss CS-3, but you all know know that already *points at thread*
 
Walt-Dogg said:
I use a compressor, an opto modded Boss CS-3, but you all know know that already *points at thread*
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Well I'm a big fan of doing what works for you. LOTS of people like and use comps and get great results from them ..... they just don't tickle my sonic funny-bone.

It's funny how some gear will work great for one guy and not at all for another.
That's why I NEVER say that anything is an absolute.
There's so many styles and touches and feels and ways of expressing the same things that all you can ever really say is what you personally like for yourself. That's absolutely the only thing you can say with any certainty.
 
Lt. Bob said:
Well I'm a big fan of doing what works for you. LOTS of people like and use comps and get great results from them ..... they just don't tickle my sonic funny-bone.

It's funny how some gear will work great for one guy and not at all for another.
That's why I NEVER say that anything is an absolute.
There's so many styles and touches and feels and ways of expressing the same things that all you can ever really say is what you personally like for yourself. That's absolutely the only thing you can say with any certainty.
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Well put. I have a friend who can make his solid state, p.o.s Marshall sound infinitely better than anything I've got. Alot of it is down to touch and feel (the tone really is in the fingers) but I usually do try to emulate the set-up of some of my idols - Mark Knopfler, love his tone. And he used a CS2 at one point, I believe.
 
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