Compressor/Sustainer pedal for Type O Negative?

[Astrodude55]

Hey, hey everyone! I wasn't sure where to put this so please move if needed.
The title really says it all, but for more context:
I've been doing a ton of reseach over the years into Peter Steele's bass set up for Type O Negative and it occured to me that, while I do have a DS1, CH1, and DD3 like he used, there was something missing from my copycat set up: a sustainer. Now, I don't want to modify by bass (I'm using an LTD F-414fm set up and tuned to B standard) for a Sustainiac. I love my EMGs a little too much to want to give them up. I've seen- here and there- that the Fernandes Sustainer is more powerful than the Sustainiac so I was wondering if I could emulate that part of his bass rig with a compression/sustainer pedal. I don't know anything about these things. I do like, and use, Behringer pedals for those hard-to-find BOSS pedals and that's what I was looking at using: a Behringer CS400 just to get me started. Any recommendations and advice would be greatly apprecated! Thank you so much!

 

[NC_Rob]

Tagged for interest plus I am a HUGE TON fan.

I would check the BOSS CS-3.

This comment on Amazon got my attention (and Peter seemed to love BOSS pedals):

"I'm a bass player with a 5-string bass. I was looking for more sustain, not the compression so much. First I bought the Behringer CS400 Compressor/Sustainer pedal to try to save some money. It cost about $21. After a few days of playing through the pedal, I noticed high levels of audible distortion. It was as if this thing was a distortion pedal. I thought it was a dying battery so I tried a new one, then an external power supply, but it was no use. The distortion was so loud that I simply could not use the pedal at all if I wanted a clean sound. I don't recall distortion being there when I first started using this pedal, but it was there now, loud and clear. The pedal had become completely useless to me.

I then reluctantly forked over a Benjamin Franklin for this Boss CS-3 pedal. As soon as I plucked the first note, there was sweet sustain with no audible distortion to my ears. I've been playing through it for several days now and it is still as clean as it was on day 1. Now I have a true compressor/sustain pedal. I should have just bought this in the first place instead of wasting $21 on a cheaper knock-off.

The moral of the story: Buy the Boss pedal first, don't waste your money on cheaper models."