BTW, you may want to look at this FAQ written by our own compressor guru bongomania. http://www.ovnilab.com/articles/chain.shtml
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Where do you place your compressor???
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My compressor is the penultimate pedal on my board, only followed by my 3Leaf Enabler. I've been happy with my board for a few months now, so it's due for a shake up. We'll see where it lands...
Aw, I was gonna say that.In a cardboard box labelled "MISC".
But when I ran a comp, I ran it right after the bass, or in my case, right after my wireless.
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Read that and to summarize, "if you have a big, diverse board there is no correct answer."
I'm not the OP, but I'm going to try and piggyback on this thread. I finally got a compressor pedal (Fairfield Accountant) on my board. Have a variety of boxes (OD, octave, synth, filter, fuzz, phaser, delay). I do a lot of stacking for pads and synth sounds. This will be an (almost) always on pedal. Leaning towards end of chain. Currently have it right before delay and after phaser. Would love some insight from those running similar configurations and with similar sonic goals. Not my first compressor, but the first time I've not been limited to a rack position. These location options are new to me.
Mine is first, which does weird things to the envelope follower on my Xero, but whatever, I hate the super dated cheesy sound of envelope filters anyway, not trying to troll here... The Xero just gets used for static dubby stuff and expression pedal sweeps.
bongomania
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Make sure the comp and the loop are designed to run at the same signal level as each other.
Oh yes, of course! =] I've actually been reading a lot of your reviews lately, bongo. One I've been looking at, to dip my toe into compressors and give me a palce to start, is the 3632.Make sure the comp and the loop are designed to run at the same signal level as each other.
