BKP Alnico WARPIGS AND Alnico NAILBOMB COMPARISON (MY 2 CENTS)

[Lucas]

Will do, surely!
Correct me if I`m wrong, AM sounds to me like a ceramic, tighter version of Holydiver. I`ve seen comments that apparently Painkiller is like a Ceramic Holydiver, but AM sounds to me closer anyway.

on the other hand, are you familiar with running Compressor pedal in front of dirt boxes? Preferably always switched on?

[Dave Sloven]

I can never get a good sound with a compressor pedal.

What am I doing wrong???

[ericsabbath]

my tc electronic classic sustain + parametric eq works pretty fine as a booster
got it in as partial payment on some tube driven maxon I sold
would never pay US$299 (or even half of it) on a new one, but it's a fine pedal
it's not as effective for sustain matters as an overdrive pedal, though
but works quite well for boosting mids while adding just a little compression
it keeps things transparent and naturally fat

for a tight uncompressed crunch and punch, the best thing I had was a vintage maxon 6 band eq
it was quite noisy, though, but nothing my rocktron hush couldn't handle

in the end, overdrives are always easier to deal with

[Dave Sloven]

I have the MXR Custom Comp.

Maybe I need to back off the Attack?  I definitely don't want chicken picking squash effects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgyOnOb8_jM

[Lucas]

I have a problem with compressor as well. At the moment I threw it out from the signal chain. Basically I have good results with clean channel (use settings from manual) but would like to find settings to have in on all the time whether play clean or use dirt boxes. I`ve read somewhere that there`s not much point of compressing already compressed (distorted) sound anyway, but loads of people keep compressors on all the time.

[Kiichi]

I donīt believe there is a total golden setting. For clean I want it to slightly compress the attack to mellow everything out and make it pop. For distortion I want sustain, so low attack and just everything after it gets compressed.

Now, if I am going for an all around setting what I would do is set the comp for med-low sustain, light-low compression on the attack, and then dial my OD down a tad while adding treble boost. Logic is: I mellow out the attack, thus I need more treble to bring it back. I add compression before distortion (extreme compression) thus I back up on the compression.

If you want an always on you need to more or less go medium on everything and know what does that to equal things out.

That is my take at least and Iīve made it work before.