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(More customer reviews)I searched a lot before settling on this compressor and I'm glad I found it -- it's worth every cent. Demeter is absolutely right: performing compression via an optical circuit is super super clean. The Compulator fully achieves its design goal of compressing the initial attack of your notes to fatten things up without messing with your tone in any other way. Clean signal in? Clean signal out. Turn its output volume up high if you wish, and it still hardly colors your tone at all (although the side effects of running a hotter signal out of the compressor and into your next effect or your amp very well might). Though usually you'll set the output volume at exactly the level that makes up for the compression.
I'm a bass player; my current set up:
Music Man Sting Ray 4 > Demeter Compulator > SansAmp Bass DI > MXR M288 Octave Deluxe > BBE Sonic Stomp > Mesa/Boogie Basis M-2000 > Ampeg SVT50DL "Isovent" cab.
Starting this chain with the Compulator is one of the most crucial improvements I ever made. The sweet sound of the SansAmp is worth twice as much when driven by a signal that is already compressed juuuuust enough. I don't usually go for heavy compression, but I almost always want a touch of it *before* I modify my signal in any other way, before any other gain or effect. But being at the start of the chain, the compressor has to be dead quiet & clean. The Compulator absolutely fills that need and its effect on the dynamics of my signal is simply perfect.
In case you find yourself comparing this unit to competing pedals which have additional attack and decay controls, think how often you will ever need to or want to adjust those knobs, versus the value of this simple unit sounding infinitely cleaner (and being built to last in an indestructible box with the highest quality parts).
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