Route 66 Compressor

My setup is Gibson SG special -> Morley volume/wah -> Compressor -> various overdrives (fatboost, ts-808, honey bee) -> Ch-1 -> DD-20 -> Laney VC30 It's a bit noisy with the compression and gain turned up lots but you will only  notice it if you use high amounts of compression. To compensate for this you can turn up the noise reduction trim-pot inside the pedal. Awesome. The tone switch is a nice little add on and it can add a whole new dimension to the pedal. There have been a few situations when I've left the tone nob at noon and used the tone on/off switch live to get a slightly different compression for a different song. Compared to common compressors like the dyna comp and ross ect. Id say it's definitely a lot better and more versatile. Not sure if it would sound better than a keeley comp but then again they cost a lot more.

Never broken before... I use all my pedals without backups!

It took me a while to dial in a good sound as I find that I kind of have to balance the gain knob with the level of compression and then couldnt decide if i wanted the tone on or off! The fx bypass switches are very good and not sure what the first guys problem was really. They're way easier to press than any of my pedals with chunky true bypass switches. The Tone on/off switch is easy to change when in a live performance if you're not too clumsy with your feet.

Very good, they're nice people.

I play a lot of worship music live (hillsong, Tim Hughes) and also some more ambient stuff along with this. In my spare time I play metal, blues and sometimes some country stuff. It sounds great. The pedal doesn't really have a unique sound. It's hard to describe. It could be the perfect compressor for you or you may just be annoyed because it doesn't sound like your 30 year old orange squeezer (or however old they are).

I used it with an Alvarez Dread with a Fishman NeoD pup in it and played it thru a Kustom KGA10FX, an amp I love. It is not noisey, only when you play thru it, it gets super loud before it compresses, it forgets to compress until it is real loud, this box is powerful, my speaker was shaking with the clean vol on 4. Don't like the pedal knob you step on to turn it on and off, doesn't always work, you have to hit it just so. I tried to get some chicken picken tones, with the Ross switch on or off, I couldn't get any, It is aimed at a different voice, like hard rock.I got frustrated and pulled out my Hartman Compressor, (orange squeezer tone), put it at familiar settings and started chickin pickin'(so I hadn't lost it. I had e-mailed this company before I did my pedal review. They said this pedal was better than a Keeley, so I said, send me one and the guy responded, I don't have any. It did take a while before they went into production.

It looks like a well built pedal, looked like it was given a reliced look, you know, like a pedal that has been used. I would not gig with it.

It is fairly easy to get a good rock tone out of the pedal.The manual tells you a little, but not much, there are not loads of tones in this pedal, It shows how to adjust a noise reduction unit on the circuit board, I tried to get the back off to see what the circuit board looked like compared to a home made pedal, but alas, could not get the screws off and i did not want to mess the unit up in case I had to send it back. The second screw was stripped, just kept spinning, so I gave up on that. There were lots of resistors and caps, but I don't know what kind, no ca3080 chip like in most dyna clones, it is supposed to sound like a Ross or a Dyna comp if you turn the tone control off, it doesn't. It does compress, but it is really loud compression, like listening to Santana, not a country comp.

The guys responded to my questions before the comp came out, and seem to be available. It does not sound like any compressor that I have ever heard or played, all that I can think of is a rock guitarist playing a lead with it.

I play country music and some southern rock, I have been playing for over 25 years, I sent it back to MF. I had heard a lot of good things about the original pedal (Rt 66) that had both a comnpressor on one side and an overdrive ts808 on the other side. I did not find any difference in the sound when I hit the switch that turned the tone control off. Just be careful, this thing is loaded, don't blow a speaker and watch the volume of other pedals.AHH, I just remembered something neat, when I had the gain and compress up pretty far, i hit a note and it just hung in the air, like Hendrix putting his guitar up to the amp, neat, but I don't do that.