I got myself a cheapo experiment..A Caline Pressure Tank Optical Compressor..
I have found out the Boss CS1 was an optical compressor..
What other Vintage Compression Pedals were.. ?
What type of Compressor was the Original Electro Harmonix Black Finger.. ?
I have read the Ross and the Ibanez CP 9 are Basically tweaked Dynacomps,,what about the Boss CS 2..
So I hooked up a Telecaster,the Pressure Tank Compressor,a barely detectable overdrive from the Mooer Blues Crab and a Boss BF 2 Flanger..
I was playing around,I've came to the Conclusion you have to use an Electro Harmonic Electric Mistress
to get the sound on the Cure 17 Seconds album,as this is what he used..
You need a MXR 117 to get John McGeoch Banshees sounds..
I have a 117 R and it just does this Banshees thing..
Anyway I digressed there..,I was playing about with the Flanger and came across a chorus type of setting and
thought,,F*ck me that sounds really like James Honeyman Scott,,like very like it..
I turned up the compression and tone control a touch and played what Pretenders things I could remember..
Now I know James Honeyman Scott used a EHX Clone theory,,
but he used a Boss CS 1 which was an optical compressor,,which had a treble switch..
The Caline is a Knock off of the Diamond Optical Compressor..
I would have killed to get that Honeyman Scott sound when younger..
I had a Boss CS3 Compressor and a not long out Boss CE 5 Chorus back then,I couldn't get that sound....
The Optical Compressor seems to be part of that sound..
By the way the CE 2 and BF 2 I can get good Marr sounds from..
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https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/classic-tracks-the-cure-a-forest?print=yes
I also have an old Locobox Cmpressor with an Attack knob,but from reading it is probably a tweaked Dynacomp..
I like these compressors..Although I find the CS3 a bit too sterile these days.. The Optical Compessor is a new flavour to me..
Definitely a missing one..I am really liking it..I know a lot of people mention liking the Boss CS2 over the CS3..
Apparently Boss couldn't get the VCA part anymore..Is this a chip I take it..??
Ah!! I have found this...Was the Original Black Finger Compressor that looked just like a triangle Big Muff Optical though..
There is a new Valve Black Finger...
http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/comptypes.shtml
I could get a big jet whoosh from it,but never really understood it back then ..
For me the Flanger was the hardest pedal to figure out..
Phasers are more obvious..
I was like,,what the hell is Manual..
Then I found out it was a short delay control..
That didn't really help me very much..lol
That bit of short delay seems to make it very different from a Phaser..
I've never used a flanger.
They are Big for a Hamster..Much Bigger than the Syrian Hamster people keep as pets..
Although Syrian hamsters are cool too..
Hence the Hamster Avatar..
I prefer them to meerkats.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N7YDBOdZds4