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Or you could try Thorpyfx's Fat General - alas I don't have one, so can't comment. There is a separate thread doing the rounds: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/131148/
Pigtronix Philosophers Tone
Fairfield Accountant
Origin Effects Cali 76
1) You don’t need to spend £300 to get a good compressor. My favourite one was an EHX White Finger that I bought for about £60 second hand.
2) Unless you need to get a specific sound, eg country chicken picking etc, you probably don’t even need one. Plenty of great players don’t use them - Guthrie Trapp, Josh Smith, Robben Ford to name just a few.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
At home levels I don’t understand the need for one most of the time. Why take away the dynamics in your playing?
1) The blend is such a useful control.
2) Lots of volume on tap so I can match the volume of my OD sounds to my clean if needed.
FWIW it's much more useful with my Jazzmaster, which is the only single coil guitar I own, but the RGs have a single which I sometimes use too so the Ego has never left the board since getting it.
When I first saw it, it occurred to me that Keeley had ripped off the Empress design but if he did, he ironed out all the things that stopped that one from being exceptional, including upping the compression ratio to infinity, adding hard/soft knee and widening the range on Attack and Release. The Auto function is a stroke of genius and works really well.
It's a functional compressor; it doesn't sweeten the sound like the Origin Effects or Accountant (haven't tried that one but all reports make mention of it) - it simply gives out what you put in with an exact amount of levelling applied and shaped to taste.