From Chicken Pickin' to Phish, this compressor does it all!

Posted by Bryon on 1st Nov 2012

With this compressor, I can cover all the bases. I can get classic chicken pickin' country tone on my tele bridge pickup; and with it placed right after two tube-screamer type overdrive pedals, I can get a pretty convincing Trey Anastasio-type tone on my neck humbucker. I give myself goosebumps when I play the outtro to Lizards through this pedal. Singing sustain for days. And, with the four knob model, it is very easy to dial in the kind of tone you are after. By tweaking the Attack, Sustain, and Clipping settings, you can get anything from a very transparent, natural sound to a nice squishy compressed sound for either chicken pickin' or early Phish. And it is the quietest compressor I have ever used. I can run it after my tube screamers, and it does not get inordinately noisy. I could not do this with my old Boss CS3. It would run you out of the room with all the hiss it would produce when I tried to run it after my overdrive. My Dynacomp was even more noisy. And this thing seems to be made really well. It seems to have the highest quality components and workmanship. One more thing: Keeley has great customer support. I called with a question, and he was a super cool and very nice guy. And he was very helpful in answering my questions and giving me tips on how to set it up for my needs. Really nice touch. Well worth spending a little extra than Boss or MXR or whatever to get the best compressed tone out there.