General Tso with footswitchable mode?

[Joben Magooch]

Hi all - hoping you can help me on my comp-quest.

I’ve been on the hunt for a compressor with a couple different settings. I typically use a very light amount of compression always-on. Right now that’s by way of a Diamond comp.
But I also like a more pronounced/squashed compression for “effect” or slide playing…. But I’d rather not have multiple comps on my board and feel like stacking two would get noisy.

So enter General Tso. As I understand it has a lighter “blend” setting as well as a fixed mode w/ high compression and you can switch between the two with the toggle. Seems like it would cover both bases for me.

So my question is twofold I guess.

First is…for those of you with a General Tso’s/Fat General. How much difference is there in the toggle mode? Is it realistic to set it to an “always on” light setting and then be able to flip to the squash setting without having to tweak much else?

Second… am I correct in thinking that the Mode switch (SPDT on-on) could be replaced with a SPDT (or one side of a DPDT) latching foot switch to make the two modes footswitchable? If so, I think I’m golden!

 

[swyse]

Can’t comment on the effect itself, but for the switching you could get really crazy with it and have the other poles on the foot switch swap in a different sustain pot so you could have two settings with the mode switch as well.