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This is a great example of something, wonderfully in my opinion, compressed to buggery - Dave Williams on "Billie Jean" and listen from 3mins for that riff. You probably couldn't get that without a compressor. -
Here's Michael Thompson - top session guy and one of my favourite guitarists -doing a compressor shoot-out -
I must say, I've yet to try the Xotic SP but it appeals and gets good reviews.
It can be set to be more squishy, but as it is, it sounds more like a slight clean boost. It works great for arpeggios, and I add more compression in for tapping chord progressions in the clean channel to get less dynamics.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I like compressors for funky clean stuff, people talk about dynamic range as always being a good thing but if you level the volume and take it out of the equation you can focus more on the rhythmic side of things.
As a compressor effect is applying Dynamic Range Compression to give it it's full title, you can't really plug one in and then complain that it robs dynamic range because that's what it's meant to do!
The Orange Squeezer seems to work simply because of the way the 1n100 and the 4558 interact.
HTH
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The other thing to add about compression is that you can actually feel it under fingers as well as hear it.
Note to self....My Keeley is fine. I don't need the Xotic SP! My Keeley is fine. I don't need the Xotic SP!