I just got one of these, thought I’d replace my Markbass compressore and free up some pedalboard space. The result was a new appreciation for how good the Compressore sounds. I don’t think this was designed for bass, it kind of makes the noises of your fingers on the strings louder, it knocks out bass and sounds colder, but most unexpectedly adds a ton of sustain. I might end up keeping it in a loop with my OC2 as it worked really well with that for a synthy mechanical drone sound.
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Keeley Compressor Mini… any thoughts?
- Thread starter Texican
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Sent an email and got a nice reply from their service manager - sounds like this will be ideal for my blues rock tele guitar … and a maybe also a groovy pre for recording certain bass parts.
Dear Keeley,
Regarding your new two-knob mini compressor pedal, is there any compression at all when the “comp” pot is all the way CCW … in other words, is the compressor circuit completely bypassed at that particular point or is there still some add’l squish or sustain with the signal?
Thank you in advance!
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Naw, when the comp knobber is all the way down it will be subtle but not 0%, more like 5% ish give or take. It will color the tone ever so slightly with a minimal amount of clamp.
The Mini is really subtle but its still a sustainer/expander so that classic sustainer colorization will be there either way but not anywhere close to a Ross or Dynacomp those are super clamped and colors the tone a lot.
I hope this helps,
Dear Keeley,
Regarding your new two-knob mini compressor pedal, is there any compression at all when the “comp” pot is all the way CCW … in other words, is the compressor circuit completely bypassed at that particular point or is there still some add’l squish or sustain with the signal?
Thank you in advance!
~~~
Naw, when the comp knobber is all the way down it will be subtle but not 0%, more like 5% ish give or take. It will color the tone ever so slightly with a minimal amount of clamp.
The Mini is really subtle but its still a sustainer/expander so that classic sustainer colorization will be there either way but not anywhere close to a Ross or Dynacomp those are super clamped and colors the tone a lot.
I hope this helps,
