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Excellent review Phil. It sounds like a winner. My hunt for the perfect muff ended a few years ago, but I think I'll give this one a shot anyway! Thank you!

That is frickin sweet. I'd love to have one of those, but today was NCD (new couch day) for the wifey. Let's just say I wont be having a new anything day for a while.

Many of you are using compression and don't know it. A cranked tube amp ah.sweet compression. alnico speaker pushed , compression. chicken pickin? compression needed. Recording? compression is needed to keep from clipping and help you get a hotter signal to tape or CD. there is nothing worse sounding than digital distortion when recording digital. Comps keep the peaks down depending where you set the threshold level. Compression is one of the greatest tool ever made. Radio and TV? you hear it working 24/7 used wrong? you'll get more noise and artifacts like pumping etc. Mr. Bluesmann, How right you are, on this one.

I think he's saying that if you distort the signal enough you get "wall of fuzz" sounds that lack the clarity to display your mistakes. Or he could be saying that fuzz and distortion are compressed anyway?

The tone press was the last comp I used. Very nice pedal just like all of Dave's stuff. Agreed! (I'm loving the EQ so far:wave:)

I don't use compression for "smoothing out" my playing too often, except with fingerpicking or mellow backing rhythms. I mostly use it a more of an "effect" rather than a "limiter". Kind of similar to a clean boost that adds sustain and attack, but in a good way. So I don't really see it as a crutch imo. The tone press that I use has a lot of volume on tap and the blend knob mixes the dry and compressed signal. It isn't really the average everyday compressor.