Compressor, Yay or Nay?
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laxu
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Analog vs digital for one.
Alonious_Monk
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A colleague of mine, when I taught Music tech, always told me "if you feel you need compressor on your guitar, you clearly know nothing about guitar".
He said some crazy stuff.
I love having compressor on lower gain rock sounds, no matter what guitar I use, I love the hard attack.
He said some crazy stuff.
I love having compressor on lower gain rock sounds, no matter what guitar I use, I love the hard attack.
the swede
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With helix (stomp) I mostly just fiddled with sag and bias to manipulate the compression feeling of the amp. But I never had the patience or need to really explore all the compressor effects there.
I have an old Pigtronix Philosophershfers Tone pedal that I used when I played in a band. It worked great as an always on for clean rhythm playing (that was basically my role). When I messed around with it alone I often added more sustain for fun and also it had a fun “grit” knob that added distortion inside the circuit. It’s been on a shelf for many years now because it’s cool looking. I might try it again if I ever manage to put a small board together.
Personally I’m torn between the concept of using it as an effect or using it because it does something good or not using it all.
I have an old Pigtronix Philosophershfers Tone pedal that I used when I played in a band. It worked great as an always on for clean rhythm playing (that was basically my role). When I messed around with it alone I often added more sustain for fun and also it had a fun “grit” knob that added distortion inside the circuit. It’s been on a shelf for many years now because it’s cool looking. I might try it again if I ever manage to put a small board together.
Personally I’m torn between the concept of using it as an effect or using it because it does something good or not using it all.
TwistedTape
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I have done that....and also convinced myself that the knobs I was moving were doing something!
TwistedTape
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I use a Source Audio Atlas. It is digital, but it does a lot. I have it setup so my guitar goes into the Atlas, through all my drives, back into the Atlas in my HX Stomp. That gives me a choice of comps, an EQ (and an expander I dont really know how to use) and a noise gate before and after all of my drives. Another use of compression is that if you add it before your delay it can change how things sound.
