This Is Why You Need A Compressor On Your Pedal Board
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Today we look at one of the most misunderstood #fx #pedals - the #compressor
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Now that's a solo! Outstanding John!!!
Hi John what about the never mentioned depression pedal that helps you play the blues ?
I find a few minutes of watching TV News does the job.
I have one - it's called an "Eastenders" ;-)
Also, ya really need a compressor for getting the proper "jangle pop" sound from an electric 12-string. Roger McGuinn knew this and had a compressor built into his signature Rickenbacker 370/12.
Hi John thanks that was great, I must admit my main use for compression is for added sustain. It works like this if you have a plasticine sausage that’s day short and fat when you squeeze it down or compress it it becomes longer. This is basically the same that happens to your compressed note. As you compress the note the compression pushes the notes volume from top to bottom it has the effect of squeezing it out. I hope I’ve explained that clearly.
Thanks again Wayne T
Thanks Wayne, that's a great way of explaining it.
Hi John - thanks a lot for this demonstration and now I know:
I never owned or used a compressor and I never will buy or use one in the future 🤣
I´m deep in the Blues and its so important for me to have loud and quite notes! It´s part of this kind of music and my playing style.
You really demonstrate very well for what kind of music a compressor is useful! Great playing btw! Maybe useful for playing much legato notes!
Keep on your good work!
Greetings from Germany!
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Hi John, back in the early 90s I used an HH twin channel amp with a whole set of controls for each channel. It had some onboard effects. That amp had the best compressor I ever had. Plug in a Tele and you got "Instant Nashville"
I just sold my compressor. Partly, because I only want to allow myself 8 pedals on my board (i´m succeeding!) but mostly because I got better results in view of "dialing in my base sound" without it. If anything, I found compressors interesting for their other uses apart from tone shaping. Such as using them as boosts for leads or kicking an amp into overdrive
As a teenager in the late '70s, I started to notice a difference in the sound of records I'd been buying. I soon learned of this new thing called "compression". In sound engineering circles, compression seemed to be the talk of the town. I hated it. I hated the idea of manipulating natural sound, and I hated the way those records sounded. As I recall, my first awareness of compression was Van Halen's "Dance the Night Away". Good song. Great record. I loved it, but I hated it. As per your example on the lead guitar, compression is good for "equalizing" individual instruments. But, every instrument, for the entire recording? Yecch!!! I'll take the pre-compressor transparent airiness of 1963's "Surfer Girl" over 1978''s "Dance the Night Away" any day. In my opinion, compression exists only as a means to cover up mistakes in one's technique. If you need a compressor to equalize your guitar playing, work harder on your guitar playing!!!
Makes a huge difference to vocals, some valve amps do compression naturally, like Marshalls. Using a Compressor/Expander great for 70's style funk. Great Country!, I bought the brother of your Fazley Tele, with the P90 in the bridge, sounds good, but will find out tonight at Rehearsal.
Playing a Tele through a Marshall is like slowly climbing to the top of a Rollercoaster: all....most...there! Cheers Jon.
That solo was brilliant, really nice playing and a interesting vid
Keeley Compressor+, singlecoil or humbucker mode! Fattens everything up in my ear!🎸🤘🎸
Thins the wallet though £££😶 On my wish list👍
I love it...but at times find that it can 'suck off' tone on certain pups and in combo with other effects. Still haven't figured it out. Loved the diddy tune, John!!
Wow! Great playing John. Best wishes.
John, take a solo and modify it in tone, rhythm, dynamics, pacing, adornment (bends/slides/settings/effects), facial expression, etc-- in every way but note choice and sequence to fit other musical genres: Country, R&B, Rock, Blues, Easy Listening, Jazz, Polka, etc. I think it would be interesting, and it would burn a fair few episodes so long as you can think of styles: Show Tunes, Music Hall, Roots, Celtic, Annoyingly Repetitive Bouncy Irish Hunting Rounds ....
impeccably played
Sounds great
Awesome solo.
Normally the compressor will be the first pedal you plug into with the other effects after it such as boost, overdrive etc. A little goes a long way.
Great playing.
Great video, and love the playing.👍👏👏👏
I understand what compression is technically, and it's use in post processing but I still can't grasp the usefulness for live guitar, despite your clear explanation. For guitar playing I need my ears to show me the way, but it sounded like you were using the compressor all the way through the lead segment with no comparison of off or on, so I couldn't tell the benefit of the pedal. Do I take it that the loudness differences are really that profound? Don't you want those differences at your fingertips to add nuance to your playing?
Awesome, amazing picking. But where did you place your compressor, then? At the beginning or at the end of your signal chain? Cheers. 😊
Right at the beginning of the chain. Guitar into compressor into amp. Then I added reverb & delay in the mix 👍
Mark Knopfler used a compressor whilst recording the first Dire Straits album (s ?).
I’ve learned something today 👍
Nice solo
Cleans up any junk noises and maintains a level tone plus when it includes sustain what's to complain about. Necessary pice of kit IMHO. Then I play gospel and country almost exclusively so the compressor suits my clean tone style, can't see much need for it with the rockers etc. BTW John that Fazley sounds brilliant.
See you Friday
My only pedal is a Marshall Stack
I've got a question suggestion John. How do you produce your show?
Ah... Behind the scenes kind of thing? Complete with blooper reel & studio tour. Consider it done 👍
@@JRobsonGuitar Yes, that sounds great John, thanks
hi John - what are your views on reverb - should you use even a taste of reverb to fatten or enhance the sound of a guitar rather than not using it?
I use it... Just a little room reverb on everything but bass
Hi, where in the signal chain does it go? After the pre-amp? Before or after the chorus? Before or after the reverb? Can it go into the effects loop? Sorry.... 🙂
1st in line between guitar and amp 👍
@@JRobsonGuitar Thank you very much. I had a compressor way back in the Cretaceous period, but never got anywhere with it. Will have to get a new one (or check if my Katana has an internal one, never thought of that before).
@@JRobsonGuitar Thanks, it works!
Okay question: what do you think about compensated tuning?
Never tried it so can't really offer an opinion 🤔
@@JRobsonGuitar just came across it...find it useful...for some of my guitars, you know when you tune to perfect pitch...but then barre chords just sound off...I know Edward van Halen tuned his b string slightly flat.. still experimenting with it...well, keep up the good work👍
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The video starts around 3:50 You're welcome