Boss CS-2 Compressor Guitar Effect Pedal

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)

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

"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.

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

Used by Lee in 1991.

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'.

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.”

"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."

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)

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

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)

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

Jim Matheos lists his gear on his website.

Shown in rig rundown video 23:23

Boss CS-2 can be seen on Whitey's pedalboard when preparing for Kaiser Chiefs' 2019 tour.

"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.

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

Play to Sleeping My Day Away

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

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

Used in 'Stockholm Syndrome' during the first verse.

"The main effector board is the main effector board from the upper left, the boss made tuner, the arion stereo chorus, the shigemori made of shigemori (the best), the shigemori made of shigemori (Supreme), the ruins fuzz made by Pahntom FX (gain large size), and the boss made cs-3 , boss made cs-2, digitech made by digitech, suspended from left to line6 2, digitech made by digitech, micro amp made from mxr, under the boss LS-3, This is a pec2 made by xp100, Providence made by digitech. The Shield is used by mogami (Takamatsu Handmade). I didn't use a lot of effector in the "gift" but I use an effector like distortion and xp300+xp100 in the key point. By the way, the boss's comp is around XP-300, and it is used to adjust sound like synthesizers (the sound of the sound, and the adjustment of the suspension). The sound is that you can get a core synthesizer sound by mixing a certain reverb with a line selector." / Ken,