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Here’s the compressor pedal from Palmer.
As usual, not too many adjustments – just the essential ones you need on a pedal.
It’s always tricky using compression, you tend to use a lot, and so you tend to remove the infra-bass and the very high notes.
So that’s not necessarily what you should be looking for in a compressor; you really need to look for something that’s going to give impact to the bass sound.
And for that, like for all the Palmer pedals, we have something very subtle. What I mean is, this is not a compressor that blows everything apart and suppresses all the notes – you’ve really got something that’s going to give impact to the note, which is going to even out the notes without removing the highs and infra-bass.
You’ve got three adjustments: ‘level’, ‘attack’, and ‘sustain’ – and ‘on/off’, of course!
You’re going to hear different forms of compression I’ll be using so you can hear the result.
Be careful not to fall into the compression trap where you compress everything and there’s nothing left.
Sure, if you’re doing metal, you’re going to compress the bass sound a bit more. Now if you’re doing jazz, it’s better to avoid compressing the sound too much to allow through the quality of the bass and of the strings, which should be brilliant. But with this pedal, you can do everything, metal or jazz; you just have to get the settings right, and always subtly.
Great… ’bye!