PRS Mary Cries - Compressor/Boost
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MichaelW
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Ok, color me interested. My Tso's has the same function in my pedal chain but it would be cool to separate the gain and compression controls.
But then, I tend to select certain boosts for certain sounds. Right now my two main goto's that have not left my desk are the LPB-1 and the Modus Operandi. Man I love these two boosts.
But then, I tend to select certain boosts for certain sounds. Right now my two main goto's that have not left my desk are the LPB-1 and the Modus Operandi. Man I love these two boosts.
jFets !?Yeah but Tim Pierce could make anything sound good…
I just don’t understand how this is based on an la-2a when a la-2a is packed full of tubes?¿
Could be cool though…
Alan W
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You could take an analogous, solid state circuit approach, and get something close. This is what Origin did with the 1176 compressors for their Cali76. That said, there are a number of companies marketing compressors that they say are based on the LA-2A or the 1176—but typically, you’d notice completely different control sections, etc., so I think it’s just shorthand for whatever the knee shape, etc. it’s mimicking, rather than a true circuit ancestry.Yeah but Tim Pierce could make anything sound good…
I just don’t understand how this is based on an la-2a when a la-2a is packed full of tubes?¿
Could be cool though…
I do have an Effectrode LA-1A, which they say is based on the la-2a, and while I have no experience with the latter, the LA-1A is the best piece of musical electronics I own. The circuit uses 2 12AU7s in parallel, so 4 parallel stages of make up amplification, to keep noise level low. I keep it on, at a very low compression setting, with a very soft knee, and short response, by default, but do remember to turn it off every so often, when I don’t want too much of the sweet, round clear notes with crazy separation that it pumps out so effortlessly. Some things just sound better a little raw and sloppy (my playing helps with the sloppy part of that).
Robert
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Congratulations, with one sentence you just made every boutique builder of "amp-like" overdrives curl up and cry in the corner.
swyse
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Maybe they just are referring to different amps than one might traditionally think. I make a mean amp like distortion pedal. It has LED clipping just like the valvestate amps!Congratulations, with one sentence you just made every boutique builder of "amp-like" overdrives curl up and cry in the corner.
