![]() ![]() You could say it’s limiting the dynamics of your playing. It will make all aspects of your playing heard, the softer will come up and the louder will be reduced. The initial logic of compression is to reduce the audible distance between the quieter parts of your playing and the louder. More importantly, what they do and how they work together. ![]() ![]() to truly understand what compression is, you first need to understand all the different elements of compression. However, the true key is working out what ‘appropriately’ is…. By appropriately, I mean almost all of the time, but in the right way. But, it lit a little fire in me to discover what compression was really for, in terms of guitar tone and how, when used with a degree of subtlety, it was the most important pedal to own.Ĭompression probably IS the most valuable item in your toolbox and one that should be used appropriately. I couldn’t be more wrong, I couldn’t have been using it more incorrectly if I tried. I thought that compression was something country and funk players used, so I thought I didn’t need one when I was younger… this all changed when I got a BOSS BE-5 that had a compressor in it (a CS-2 I think) and I thought it’s only job was to fill some of the holes within my sloppy solo playing. Yes, I did say that, virtually all guitar players need it. If you are anything like me, for the longest time you treated compression as a big ‘meh’ and didn’t understand why virtually all guitar players need it. ![]()
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