It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Sometimes I use it with a pedal OD/Dist/Fuzz to do basically the same job - hold the notes at a particular volume, so the tone of the sustain remains constant. The Ross Comp in particular also does something quite nice to the mids; they get a bit thicker.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
I set it so that you notice it's on, especially under fingers, but the sound can still breathe.
It's pretty integral to my clean and lead sounds.
I don't really see the point on distorted guitar- distortion does a similar thing to compression anyway.
I am partial to the Analogman Comprosser.
Keeley 4 knob is great too.
My favourite compressor on bass is the Empirical Labs Distressor.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Keeley 4k here always for cleans except a humbucker guitar. Input rolled down some, comp up. Clean, transparent and adds a sheen to things, keeps and even adds to touch dynamics.
Also sometimes run it into a fuzz, takes away the heavy low end/low mids and makes it cut more.
When you dig in you get more sustain, and if you whack a big open chord it sounds distorted, but when you play lightly and/or play partial chords, and/or put the guitar volume down a hair it sounds clean, but sustaining. Amp is a Laney Lionheart L20T BTW, so roughly in the Marshall/Vox tonal ballpark. YMMV with this of course- it worked for the music I was playing in my last band.
What I do like using a compressor for is cleaner arpeggiated parts, or anything that involves U2-y picked parts with rhythmic delays, and with my lap steel. Mine is a BYOC 5-Knob comp, which is a modified Ross with controls for compression, tone, attack and volume, plus a clean blend control.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
The singer in the band plays rhythm guitar but often is just strumming chords so I try to avoid that and add interest by picking the chords, single note riffs or switching between lick and fingers. When I'm hitting chords with a pick I come through the mix fine but then if I switch to a little riff using my fingers or and arpeggiated part I disappear. Would having a compressor on allow these bits to pop out more?