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Keeley 2 Knob Compressor - sustain at 10 o'clock works well enough so as not to get in the way and suffocate my sound but tightens up cleans and smooths out lead parts.
When I had an Xotic RC Booster, I used to leave that on.
I don't really use much clean sound, and when I do, I switch off my always on for cleans, I always have the comp side of the route 66 on, with only a little compression and gain. Makes cleans more interesting sounding. I'd also like a chorus, which would be set low and always on, clean, crunch or lead.
I went through a patch of having my Seymour Duncan Pick Up Booster always on. I think that was my only pedal I was using at the time and was just because I wanted my strat to sound less stratty TBH. I find it quite hard not to have something on between a strat and a valve amp.
A clean boost on but not doing much can be handy on the kind of gigs where all the backline is behind the drums/ bar/ in the snug and you find once the band starts up the balance is shit. It is then easier to bend down and tweak the boost rather than get to the amp.
On my home-board, I have an MXR Micro Chorus on half of my preset dirty sounds, and all my clean sounds.
Other than that, I like the dirty sounds from an MXR Dist.3.
But, no, no "on all the time" pedals
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
In the past I have used a Suhr Koko boost on all the time. I've just put it back on my gigging board but I need to see how it sounds with my latest set-up.
I have just recently got a Catalinbread DLSiii which is on all the time for my regular crunch sound. That's only turned off a couple of times in the set for really clean stuff.
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+1 for this: my SP comp stays on all the time and the blend control means the sound doesn't get too squashed and you don't lose all the dynamics.
Also used to do the same thing with a Barber Tonepress but I prefer the SP.
Flint verb, even if its just a smidge.
I also like my Line 6 Constrictor compressor, that usually seems to be in there.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.