basic and outdated

its not bad, i just think its not worth that much money plus its pretty old. way better options there, good clones too.

The GOAT of squeeze

Had to let go of my TC Electronics Hyper Gravity comp. The digital nature of that pedal started giving me issues on my board (it was mainly a power consumption thing). Ended up trading it in for an MXR Dyna Comp at Bills Music and I legit could not be happier. It color's your tone but in a real classy kind of way. My cleans are even and having it in the chain before my drives makes the overdrives on my board stand out and sound more musical. Can't recommend it enough, it's dead simple to use and works in a variety of genre's. If it's good enough for most professional country players, Steely Dan, Gilmore and Eddie Van Halen (just to name a few), it's good enough for most guitarists in almost every genre.

MXR Squishy Comp

I have a love/hate relationship with this compressor - it sucks the high frequencies from your tone, but it gives you that infamous squish that you've heard on all classic records. On clean, you sound like Chic. If you use it before your OD's, it pushes them a little bit more just like a boost and when you place it after OD's, it keeps overall volume just fine (but as mentioned before - it sucks some of your highs).

Build quality is great and I prefer it's switch more than on any EHX pedal.

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Best Cheap Compressor

As far as standard compressors that you can find commonly under $100, this will be the best bang for your buck. Nothing fancy, but has a nice dynamic range and is super durable,

Perfect

If you're trying to compress your sound, get this pedal. It's not a rackmount or some huge studio compressor; this does the same thing.

Ottimo

Ottimo compressore per chitarra, generalmente lo utilizzo con un settaggio leggero per accentuare le distorsioni (in pedaliera sta pre Ds-2) ma ogni tanto è anche divertente esagerare con la comp per tirare fuori quel sound caratteristico stile "Under the Bridge".

can't beat it with a stick, but you can with a Ross

I recently bumped into my block logo, 90s dynacomp while cleaning up my gear closet. I was looking for my SD1 and BF2 (not sure if I sold them) and found this gem instead. I was really into this pedal at a couple periods of my playing career. Great lead boost into a slightly dirty amp, the extra sustain allows you to play with a little less gain when using a strat and the midrange presence lift really helps cut a mic. Great into a clean fender for chiken pickin' Dare I add this to my board again? Maybe with analog chorus? How 80s of me!

But yeah, if you want classic guitar compression that's not studio grade and just does its thing? this is a great place to start. It colors your tone, but that's the point. Great in a dense band mix. They say the script logo is better but I could never hear a substantial difference. A grey Ross definitely sounds better without adding a bunch of features like booooo-teek versions. Set and forget squash that used to be one of the few pedals I couldn't do without in the recording studio. I am really inspired to plug this in again after replying to a compressor thread in the guitar forum! Everyone should have this or a boss compressor around. They are cheap enough.

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Simple, straightforward and suprisingly versatile.

I love everything about this pedal. Works especially good on producing that punchy and sparkly jangle sound.

Exactly what you expect

Say what you will of the Dyna Comp, it certainly can't be accused of not having enough compression; I've never had the sensitivity up beyond 1/2 o'clock, which is plenty heavy compression. Setting the output to a little above unity allows you to get a decent clean boost out of the pedal, and even with the sensitivity dialled way back, you get that satisfying pop of the note for all your country needs, and a sweet, natural sounding sustain. I use mine in front of a Soul Food and a Custom Badass '78, and the Dyna Comp gets a smooth crunch out of the Soul Food, and gives the C' Badass the sweet sustain the pedal somewhat lacks on its own. My one gripe is that the perfect compression setting for the higher strings/notes will really muddy the lower notes at times, although I imagine that's true of most compressors. Still, it's one of the cheaper compressors on the market, and I still highly recommend it!

It works .... but

I'm using this as the first pedal in my setup and it's a bit disappointing to have to put a noise gate right after it. Compression functionality is pretty good but it's quite noisy, even with guitars I have that don't hum very much. Can't blame my Carl Martin switching power supply for this.