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Not for sells Rickster, but I can heartily recommend the Barber Tone Press. It has a blend control so you can set the amount of unaffected signal coming through. I'm sure plenty of other pedals do the same tho. Love mine.
It took me years to realise that the reason I didn't like compressor pedals was because without that bypass blend they tend to completely cut the front of the note off which feels like taking a bath in socks. WIth the blend thing, you get the attack and then the squashed thing happening. Mine's on nearly all of the time these days.
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I had one! I sold it! On here!
Yeah, a mix knob would a be a good feature to have I reckon. Both the Cali76 and the Becos Stella I'm currently vibing upon have one. Regal's Keeley is blend-free but it's supposed to be rather fab nevertheless. Dunno. Also looking for a separate ratio knob and a threshold control, which the Tone Press doesn't have, both settings are fixed - though it does a good job all the same.
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It took me years to realise that the reason I didn't like compressor pedals was because without that bypass blend they tend to completely cut the front of the note off which feels like taking a bath in socks.
It depends on a few things. One is the attack and ratio settings of the compressor and the type of compressor it is (VCA/opto/etc). On any good compressor you should be able to dial the attack back to allow the transient through before the compressor starts to act. You don’t necessarily need to use parallel (wet/dry blend) compression to achieve that but it very much depends on the comp type, settings, and source material.
A blend control mostly just gives you a lot more options for different effects/sounds. Having a very smashed compressed sound mixed with the dry signal is a particular thing and you definitely can’t get those certain effects without it.
rickster
Regal
Does anybody have anything nice in the compressor department for sells?
In an ideal world... Cali, Becos, Keeley, Empress, Diamond, that kind of thing. But open to ideas. Oh, and it's for bass.