Let's say I'm playing pop, rock & soul covers and wanted a compressor to give me just a bit more from my cleans, without adding dirt. I'm thinking the Motown, funk, disco stuff up as far as Nile Rodgers and Bruno Mars sorts of vibes.
So what's good these days? The Keeley 4-knob was always the daddy in the old times before the boutique thing really kicked off, so their Comp Plus has appeal. And these days I'm in love with Origin and already have a bunch of theirs, so the Cali76 seems like a foolproof option esp as I already love the bass version, but that's for a different use case.
Anything else? Fat General?
Any comp-fiends able to chime in?
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The new J Rockett Airchild I notice is very much aimed at that funk type compression. £239 pre order, bloody hell.
A hundred times this.
Having a blend control makes compressors so much nicer to use. It's far more important than any other factor IMO.
Xotic SP and Suhr Koji are two examples, but there are loads of others.
However, of those I've tried, the Thorpy Fat General and the Mad Professor Forest Green were the best for the "always on" tone sweetening and subtle sustain thing. I found the Mad Professor slightly easier to dial in, but the Thorpy was quieter and better built.
I didn't gel with the SlideRig (the basic small format version). Something didn't quite work for me in terms of the right balance of squish.
Currently, I have a JoeMeek FloorQ -- review here https://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/floorq.shtml -- which I like and which has an amazingly low noise floor. It's very clean and uncoloured as it's literally a rack compressor in a pedal. You can definitely dial in the funk thing, or the clean sustain thing, or the country quack. However, it doesn't quite add the sweetness that the Fat General or the Forest Green did.
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What I can also say is I want something that's Boss/MXR sized, and with top-jacks. Anything else won't fit on my board, and I don't like mini pedals. So that automatically knocks out half the market
Top of the list from a quick google are probably the new Wampler Ego76/Wong, UA 1176 (I must say their video for the Max made it sound like shit), and the Origin Cali76.
Instantly I feel like JLJ has the Ego76 doing exactly what I want, so that could be great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W37xAaL8-E
I had the Keeley Compressor + and found it a noisy hiss machine!
The one thing that's making me think about Wampler is the tone controls. And just the fact that I love Wong...
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very unobtrusive
Cali has a stronger flavour
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