This has been my compact setup for quite a while now.
It came into being when I was travelling light and slapped a few pedals on my old nano, more or less on the go.
Tuner into the Strymon for just a touch of plate hall with a big ambient shimmer reverb on the favorite switch.
The Sansamp had three settings: 1. Quite neutral. 2. Overdriven amp 3. Oldschool all thump, no highs.
I actually liked it so much that these Pedals never went back on my big board and the Nano became my go-to board for most of my projects and apart from swapping the unreliable HB Powerplant Jr for a Cioks Adam I did not change it at all for about 18 months.
Recently, I wanted to add a compressor - but as you might have noticed, this Nano is filled to the brim.
So I swapped the Sansamp for the smaller BDDI v2 and the BlueSky for the only other pedal I could find that could be set to work more or less the same way: The Walrus Audio Fathom. That left room for a comp.
I was torn between the MXR M87, the Origin Cali76CB and the Keeley Bassist. The MXR got the pass because
It was on sale in a store and it has the best metering LEDs.
So my first attempt at my new board looks like this:
I'll see soon how it'll perform, at home it works like a charm.