You got compressor?

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I have a Suhr Woodshed and love it. Small footprint and does everything that I want it to.
 
I got an MXR Dyna Comp, the Custom Shop one,
Suhr Koji, which is really good, and the Boss CP-1X.
The Boss gets the most use.
 
Music&Chaos said:
I heard @griff10672 makes some pretty badass pedals....

I have actually been really wanting his version of a 4 knob compressor or the like.

Does he make it? No, not yet at least....
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I can make any kind of compressor you want ...... I can have a Keeley 4 knobber ready in like 3-4 weeks if you want ....

optical compressors are cool too .... like the EQD Warden and plenty of others
 
griff10672 said:
I can make any kind of compressor you want ...... I can have a Keeley 4 knobber ready in like 3-4 weeks if you want ....

optical compressors are cool too .... like the EQD Warden and plenty of others
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Dude, don't get too excited because I am not a guy who buys or needs a lot of pedals, but let me say this. If I decide I want a pedal I will be contacting you to build it or clone it for me.
 
VonBonfire said:
I been looking at some comps. I had a Keeley Compressor plus but I didn't like it at all so I sold it. It was noisy and about the time I dialed it subtle enough to not be obvious compression it wasn't doing much of anything at all, lol. I been eyeballing the Cali 76 deluxe, the Warm Audio pedal76, and the Diamond. Any experiences you could share on comps?

Not even sure if it's worth my while to try it again but I thought it might knock the top off some of the more intense transients and gimme a little extra sustain while still preserving dynamics which I didn't find the Keeley was capable of doing....
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Just seeing this.

Always struggled with comps. Kept a Barber Tone Press around for recording bass and clean finger picking stuff, but never kept it on the board.
Got a Carl Martin Andy Timmons comp a while back, and like it much better. It suqishes and boosts, without stomping on the sound. Indeed, can add lows while simultaneously tightening them, and sparkle without any harshness.
Sent the 15 yr old Barber on, and don’t feel the need to look at another comp again.
 
griff10672 said:
I can make any kind of compressor you want ...... I can have a Keeley 4 knobber ready in like 3-4 weeks if you want ....

optical compressors are cool too .... like the EQD Warden and plenty of others
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I do like the Warden. I have that one on my guitar board. I never messed with the Keeley. For bass I've used the MXR M87 Bass Compressor.

Either way, I would be interested in a compressor build if you do one.
 
BeZo said:
I do like the Warden. I have that one on my guitar board. I never messed with the Keeley. For bass I've used the MXR M87 Bass Compressor.

Either way, I would be interested in a compressor build if you do one.
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been looking at a few compressor circuits lately ...

this Thorpy is kind of cool ....

and I've been wanting to do one of these for while too ...
 
The old ADA MP-1 had a Comp built into the Clean channel..
You really got used to it.
Playing a Cleans without it was like a toddler walking thru a House of Cards..
 
midnightlaundry said:
The old ADA MP-1 had a Comp built into the Clean channel..
You really got used to it.
Playing a Cleans without it was like a toddler walking thru a House of Cards..
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I relied on my compressor so much as a bassist and I never realized it until my pedalboard cut out at a gig and I had to plug straight in. Some of that was to control the slapping and strumming dynamics from burying the regular plucking, but it was still a lot. I dialed it back after that and tried to balance my playing through practice to not rely on the compressor as much.

Still, for a clean signal, it is the secret sauce to make everything sparkle. Aside from evening out the notes of a chord, it adds the overtones that makes the clean tone sparkle without distortion. I always have one on.
 
midnightlaundry said:
The old ADA MP-1 had a Comp built into the Clean channel..
You really got used to it.
Playing a Cleans without it was like a toddler walking thru a House of Cards..
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Only on the solid state channel. The clean & distorted tube has no compressor.
 
VonBonfire said:
I been looking at some comps. I had a Keeley Compressor plus but I didn't like it at all so I sold it. It was noisy and about the time I dialed it subtle enough to not be obvious compression it wasn't doing much of anything at all, lol. I been eyeballing the Cali 76 deluxe, the Warm Audio pedal76, and the Diamond. Any experiences you could share on comps?

Not even sure if it's worth my while to try it again but I thought it might knock the top off some of the more intense transients and gimme a little extra sustain while still preserving dynamics which I didn't find the Keeley was capable of doing....
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I think the cali76 changed the game for pedal compressors. I have no use for one really but when I wanted to put a board together that was the one I decided would be best
 
cali 76 stacked is very quiet with tons of subtle to squashville range, which is why it replaced the very cool xotic sp comp i had.
would like to try the woodshed though…to possibly replace the nux mini i have.

carl martin is noisy. had dyna, keeley, menatone jac, barber tone press, akai….
 
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