lipsucnt Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 When building clean tones should I be using a compressor and if so why and should it be placed pre or post amp /mixer and how should I set it up as I don't have much luck with Compression sound wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinistralx Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I would always add the compressor to the beginning of the signal chain, get all your levels sorted before you start layering effects. I generally always keep the settings pretty subtle for clean tones. Maybe if you are doing a lot of finger picking you could push the compression a bit more but generally (for me) heavily compressed squelchy clean tones are not desirable. Some times i also use it for gain for lead tones and would stick it right in front of the amp,, or even in the effect loop. for that i set the threshold up, sustain low gain up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lipsucnt Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ok thanks I will try moving it around a bit and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billlorentzen Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 You can place one of the pedal comps before the amp or the LA2A after. They sound different. The pedals are more obvious to me. I build my sounds like a recording engineer, because that's my experience, so I would stick a studio effect after the amp, like in the studio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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