Hi there,

I should probably know the answer to this as I've been playing long enough... but for whatever reason I've never really played around with compression pedals.

I'm told they can make a big difference to a signal chain.

Currently my chain is...

Guitar - Petersen strobostomp tuner - Satriani Wah - Blackstar HT dual distortion - Vox delay - boss tremolo - Amp.

What practical use would the compressor be? I know that they don't affect the sound drastically but would it even the tone out or improve it? Generally I use a fairly distorted tone which is quite compressed anyway isn't it?

My second question is if it's worth getting a compressor, what ones should I be looking at? I guess they'd go before the distortion pedal in the signal chain.

Cheers!

Jonny

If your playing with a bit of gain, or even pushing a valve amp to slight breakup, then no. Unless your planning on doing a load of two handed tapping and want your tapped notes to sound just like your plucked ones. Then you just over use the compression.

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Yeah, what Nik said...

To be honest, you need to take your rig (pedalboard included) and mess with some compressor pedals. I had one for a while, and to be honest, it didn't really do anything to make my tone better.

I've had better success from my MXR Micro Amp...it's supposed to just be a boost pedal, but it somehow works out to give a "more of me" effect...

Either way, I'd try it out before ruling it out...some guys swear by them--others swear at them.

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