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  • The day rock'n'roll died.

    ha! (sorry just saw this).

    do any of you nerds use compression? never really understood the point of it till i started playing 50s type stuff more regularly and needed to leap out of the mix to play basically clean (but suitably hairy) toned solos and various riffy instrumental bits...

    overdrive even with the gain backed all the way off doesn't do it (too much tone colouration), even a clean boost sends my wee little valvey amps into ackerdacker territory so i've been using a cheap shitty compressor. seems to do the job and i'm warming to the overall effect. been checking out demos and reviews but am pretty ignorant as to what i should be looking/listening for.

    any suggestions for an affordable, good quality compressor to mainly be used as a clean-boost/pick-me-up?

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