Surrealistic Brillo

When I first started playing I used compression a lot, but I had a real heavy picking hand at that time. And could be fairly sloppy with the other.Now in the last few years compression has seemed to get in the way of my playing.Is this just me or do others feel that compression really isn't necessarry. It's useful if you are looking to get controlled feedback at low volumes or if you're doing more experimental textures, prepared guitar work, volume swells, right hand harmonics, bowed guitar, etc. I rarely if ever use it for the "normal" stuff.

As far as I'm concerned a pedal maker could use this forum to post pics of himself screwing his pet goat and to tell us we're all cunts and we need to buy his product...if his pedal is awesome and it makes a sound that I simply have to have, I'm buying it. Now, if I can buy other pedals with as good of a sound or better and they have better customer service, I'll buy my pedals there...which is why I don't own any Fulltone products besides the BassDrive which I use in my bass rig (I'm a guitarist primarily)...when there's n equal or better two channel bass overdrive, the BassDrive comes off the board. So if this Disnortion pedal ends up setting a tonal benchmark with me, I'll buy at least one...two if I like it alot.

Originally posted by bucky Does the average drunk ass at a show even care about tone? I think not. At the shows I've played they do. I get lots of compliments on my live tone after a set, so SOMEONE out ther must care.

Originally posted by jackpotjewell I don't think it's the pedals themselves, but more the over the top spamming. Will an audience be able to tell from the tone coming out of my speakers how much a particular pedal builder spammed the pedal I'm using on the internet? For me that's the bottom line...if a pedal sounds awesome I don't care if the guy comes knocking on my door to tell me about it in the middle of banging Alicia Witt.