Re: Guitar Compression was :Re: ...refle

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

>> Andy wrote advice about the use of compressors on guitar:
>> "Here's mine: Never use them

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote:
> maybe good for Andy - I always set my compressor to the max setting. I 
>love
> that sound, with a short attack and then the notes of the string staying
> almost constant like an organ.


Here it might be useful to put in a note on pickup noise and buzz in
relation with compression. Myself I have, and still partly am, a big
fan for vintage sounding single coil pickups. I totally love the sound
idea of letting those twangy notes swim through an ocean of
compression - but with a vintage style  Stratocaster model guitar that
"organ like tone" will most likely be dressed in a murky blanket of
exaggerated noise and buzz. I recently bought a replacement pickup for
my Telecaster, that is fretless, in order to go more into compressed
guitar tone playing. This pickup is a hybrid; a humbucker in the
physical shape of a telecaster bridge pickup. Boy, what a relief to
get rid of that noise! Works very well for an ultra compressed sound.
A compressed sound totally useless for reggae rhythm guitar work but
very cool for Michel Brook style melody lines.
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