RossComp

Even if you abuse the knobs, it's pretty quiet. I'm a humbucker guy- not a Tele country picker, and I love this pedal. I like beef and sustain, but I hate the squashy sound of a pumpy compressor- I don't like to 'hear' a compressor work. You can get both with this. Thanks to the 'blend' knob, which mixes dry with the wet- kind of like parallel compression- you can get a pretty transparent sound if you want. Also, they provide 2 sets of chips and transistors to experiment with. One chip is the "Ross" chip, the other has more squash and is a bit cleaner... less grit. The attack is subtle, and is actually a release of the immediate pick transient. If you want the low down look at the website's forum. The tone knob is a bass cut, so you can get more twangy jangle, if you want. And it's true bypass.

So far, so good, but I built it recently.

I built the 5 knob version- some people gripe because there's too many options... (Level, sustain, blend, attack, tone). But once you figure things out, it makes it super tweakable pedal. The only remotely tricky thing is setting the internal trim knob before you close it up... not a big deal.

The BYOC forum is a great place that has given me speedy replies to any questions, and the guys don't cop stupid tone nazi attitudes, either. I haven't needed to call the actual company.

I've only really used studio compressors, so I was looking for more of a tone thing for my guitar, and I love it. I use it with clean or slightly overdriven tones. Punchy beef and sustain. Worth the price for me.

Excellent! Great sounding compressor, i use it on bass primarily. Its one fat squeeze, very fat, nice and squishy, great for slap, and creates days of sustain, it can actually make notes swell in sustain. Sounds awesome, only beef is it makes a bit of noise, but this maybe be partially my Effect chains fault, my boss EQ generates alot of noise.

So so... Its acted a bit funny on a few occasions, maybe due to the construction of it. It has cut volume significantly on one ocasion, but since then it has been working fine. My LED doesnt work... but thats just a fluke bad LED that im way to lazy to fix, still works, just no LED causei havent gotten around to it.

Very easy. I had a friend build this pedal for me, only took a few hours to build, all parts included and labeled with diagrams. 3 knobs on mine, Sustain, Attack, and Level. Also has an LED.

never had to deal with it, other than ordering of pedals.

Excelllent pedal, does exactly what its supposed to do, and does it ver well. Very squishy, easy to assemble excellent. Only thing that bugs me is that the 9V jack is located under the input jack, which makes it really hard reach with a daisy chain.

As it comes it is really good.  For my own neurosis I am upgrading to polyester capacitors and metal film resistors bought from mouser.  Well see how that changes the sound.  As it comes its pretty quiet and very squishy.

10 I made it!

Building this project is easy.  There are step by step instructions on the site and the circuit board is labeled.

I play a '76 telecaster into a bassman clone I built.  This pedal can work to get you real flat attack for pedal steel stuff or in front of a distortion pedal for heavy metal type leads.