Boneyard Delegate Compressor

[Erik S]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

Compressors are weird.

I spent some time playing this one yesterday, and I think I’ve got my head wrapped around the effect and what the controls do, but nothing about it really grabbed me and made me excited to play my guitar. I need to spend some more time with it and try and understand better what the best context for it is. It was kind of nice on some finger picking.

I was surprised how much this clips if the sustain is turned up. I was imagining this was going to be an all clean / subtle sort of experience, but this thing can get loud. It is easy enough to set it where it doesn’t clip.

This is definitely the last time I’ll put gloss clear coat on a gloss black enclosure. Handling it with greasy potentiometer-fingers = fingerprint city, and it does a great job showing the flaws in the paint job.

I think this is the first time I’ve used these Mr-O style knobs. Not sure who Mr O is, but I like his knobs.

 

[zgrav]

nice clean build. I usually think of compression as a tool for other things in a pedal chain instead of a separate effect.

 

[Erik S]

nice clean build. I usually think of compression as a tool for other things in a pedal chain instead of a separate effect.

Thanks! Any hot tips for what sort of things I should try with it?

 

[MichaelW]

Thanks! Any hot tips for what sort of things I should try with it?

Put it as the first pedal in your chain and dial up a low to medium bit of compression. Then run your dirt pedals after it. Now dial up a couple of your favorite dirt sounds. Try it with and without the compressor, notice how you'll get a more sustain with the compressor?
I like to run my compressors so that you don't know it's really on until you turn it off. I generally don't like too much squish.

 

[BuddytheReow]

By itself a compressor is one of those "is it on?" kind of effects. Like @zgrav and @MichaelW said, you'll notice it if placed before other pedals. A compressor also has a fine line between nice and crappy tone.

 

[Feral Feline]

Another use is to tame a peaky envelope filter, put it after the filter.
Sometimes it's good to put it in front to tame an overly-sensitive envelope filter.