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Boss CS-2 Compressor Guitar Effect Pedal

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Boss CS-2 Compressor Guitar Effect Pedal

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18 Artists Use This
The Edge

He's had this pedal for since the 90's.
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Josh Klinghoffer

"I have the compressor for some of the cleaner tones here, particularly in some of the new album's tunes. He's got some ear for South African guitar popular sounds so that compression comes in quite hard," says Josh Klinghoffer's guitar tech.
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Keith Urban

Keith Urban's guitar tech, Chris Miller, said they use the Boss CS-2 Compressor when Keith is finger picking it VS strumming. 'It helps to keep the level of the sound to remain the same in the song when Keith goes from finger picking to strumming'.
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David Gilmour

Used in the Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour and the Division Bell tour alongside the MXR Dynacomp. (http://www.kitrae.net/music/David_Gilmour_Tone_Building.html#ToneBuildingPulse http://www.gilmourish.com/?page_id=156) "Additional pedals include a Boss CS-2 Sustainer, MXR Dyna Comp, Iba- nez CP9 Compressor-Limiter, Boss Hyperfuzz, Electro-Harmonix Big Muff, two Chandler Industries Tube Drivers and three Boss Graphic Equalizers. He also operates several master volume pedals: one for his 4x12 cabinets, another one for his rotating speakers, another for his voice box and a speed control for the doppolas." - [Phil Taylor, David Gilmour's guitar tech.](http://www.pink-floyd.org/artint/dagear.htm) "After extensive tests David decided on the following list of effects to be incorporated: Boss CS-2; Pete Cornish G-2 Fuzz; EH Big Muff; Pete Cornish Soft Sustain-2; Chandler Tube Driver; Pete Cornish Tape Echo Simulator; Pete Cornish Custom Stereo Chorus using a modified Boss CE-2." - [from Pete Cornish website](http://www.petecornish.co.uk/dgtt.html)
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Juan Alderete

At 0:20 in this video, Juan Alderete explains his history with the Boss CS-2 compressor stating, “I have this compressor. It’s this Boss CS-2 compressor. I’ve been using that since RazorX. That was in 1986. I started using it because I started going to passive pickups but you know like back then everybody was doing harmonics.” Juan explains what he likes about the CS-2 compared to other compressors by saying, “It’s just the most musical one. I’ve tried so many of them.”
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Bonnie Raitt

"Now I use a compressor when I play slide, and with that you can sustain a note as long as your emotions will hold. It’s like surfing— you can ride that wave of emotional intensity and taper it off and build it up, depending on how you work your volume knob. It’s really an exciting way to express yourself."
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Jim Matheos

Jim Matheos lists his gear on his website.
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Cliff Burton

Cliff Burton can be seen with a Boss CS-2 in this photo.
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Lee Ranaldo

Used by Lee in 1991.
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Martin Barre

Barre states on his official site that he used a Boss CS-2 pedal. Full article [here.](http://www.martinbarre.com/index.cfm/about-gear)
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Jacob Binzer

Play to Sleeping My Day Away
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Roland Orzabal

A thread on Gearslutz detailing the custom pedalboard built for Roland by Pete Cornish lists the following pedals as part of the board: PC Buffer/Line driver Boss CS-2 Boss SD-1 Spare send/return 1 Boss CE-2 Boss VB-2 Spare send/return 2 DDL send/return (type of delay not known) Master Effects Bypass EQ send/return (type of EQ not known) System Mute PC Line Driver/ground isolation/Booster feed to amp (possibly Roland JC120)
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Igor Haefeli

At 2:50 minute mark,, we can see Haefeli's board, which includes the 3-knob Boss CS-2 Compressor pedal.
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Jinte Deprez

On this photo of Jinte's 2015 pedalboard, we can see a Boss CS-2
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Kenny Greenberg

"It's just an old school, old CS-2. Compression is all the way off, and I use the buffer in it, because the buffer is also a lot important. Because if you have pedals with buffers, it gets your signal back to the place where you've had your cord straight in." - Greenberg about Boss CS-2.
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Yavuz Çetin

Here we can see he's using Boss CS-2 Compressor Guitar Effect Pedal
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David Palumbo

In Pedals Fusion's interview with Atsuko Chiba, David showed off his pedalboard, which included a Boss CS-2.
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Derek Poulsen

Visible on Poulsen's pedalboard in this Facebook post by Kiev.
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3 reviews

rickwerneck13

257

Excelent

The CS-2 is way better than its successor, the CS-3. Bought mine from Japan.

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marcelodonati

161

The classic compressor

A little bit noisy, but a subtle and warm compressor.

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jimmarchi1

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1805

thanks for the extra knob boss...

the CS-2 gives you an attack control on the front and it is probably the first comp pedal to do that... but I still prefer the sound of the dynacomp. If I played more country back when I owned both I probably would have kept the CS-2 though because it really did great country chickin' pickin' sounds through a fender amp... it could get a Gibson to sound country. Defintiely has more bass reduction going on than the dynacomp and all of its cousins.

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