COMPRESSOR TRICKS. Compression pedals and effects can be confusing. The normal understanding is "sustain, sustain, sustain." But your favorite "sustain kings" such as Carlos Santana DO NOT USE compressors to achieve the sustain! (that is why we build all tube amps, correctly designed tube amps have a very musical compression effect when pushed hard.) The compressor is better understood as a "dynamic control" effect. You can set it to even out your volume no matter how you attack the guitar. Absolutely fabulous for playing rhythm guitar - once you try it, you will always use it for that. You can hit the guitar as hard as you want, and the compressor will even out the volume keeping your sound exactly where you want it in the mix. THE trick for playing funky clean backup rhythms. Compressors are also the other pedal that is best as a "compound pedal." Add a compressor BEFORE your distortion pedal and get tons of very smooth sustain from the two pedal combination. - again perfect for playing super distorted rhythm with lots and lots of "hold over" of the chords. Makes you sound big, and very professional. For a very clear example of compressed lead guitar, listen to the lead in the old Carly Simon song "You're so vain." If you are recording vocals (or singing live), compression is THE way to get a pro sound. Voices have huge amounts of dynamics - use fairly heavy compression to get a clean sound and prevent the PA from ugly distortion on "spikes" of loud notes. Compression is pretty much mandatory for multiple vocalists all singing at the same time. Dynamics are far too much for any type of system and the compression provides a much cleaner, blended tone. In the Torres recording studio we sometimes gange two compressors together to handle the extreme dynamics of, for example, 4 lead female vocalists with strong, high voices. |
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