Marshall ED1 compressor

munckee

I realise some people would rather eat their own spleen that use a compressor, however I want a cheap one to use for clean tones and fingerstyle and work with a light overdrive for more sustain.  I see there seems to be a few cheap Marshall ED1s on Ebay, are these okay, any other recommendations, I'm only looking at £40-£50 used.

Sassafras

http://www.ovnilab.com/reviews/marshall.shtml

UnclePsychosis

The Marshall compressor is excellent, you need to spend considerably more to get something better in my opinion. 

siraxeman

UnclePsychosis said:

The Marshall compressor is excellent, you need to spend considerably more to get something better in my opinion. 

heard a few folks say similar...since I sold my CS-2, methinks I needs to get one of these.

Dominic

UnclePsychosis said:

The Marshall compressor is excellent, you need to spend considerably more to get something better in my opinion. 

Spot on .............just not a very trendy name in the pedal world

Grunfeld

It's a great compressor BUT for me the knobs were the problem.
1mm either way and it is radical.
So... my call on it was that it wasn't that much use live (great for home; not for live where you've got to adjust in dim light).
And with that hard sell I'll happily flog you mine for £25.
Or
Get a Wamper Ego for live.

munckee

Grunfeld said:

It's a great compressor BUT for me the knobs were the problem.
1mm either way and it is radical.
So... my call on it was that it wasn't that much use live (great for home; not for live where you've got to adjust in dim light).
And with that hard sell I'll happily flog you mine for £25.
Or
Get a Wamper Ego for live.

I'll take it.  Can you PM me your bank details please.  I only want it for home use.

meltedbuzzbox

The Edward is a great compressor. It's the best under £100 I would say

munckee

Thanks for all the opinions have bought Grunfeld's.  Next question before or after the overdrive?

Dominic

Before 

Grunfeld

Before.
After is a distinctive sound, but it's not a particularly useful sound.

Beexter

Much prefer my compressor after overdrive. Placing it before drive takes away a lot of the nuances of subtle volume changes and how they affect the gain of the drive pedal. I usually only use a comp for clean sounds though. There's no right or wrong though, whatever sounds best to you is the answer.

Ro_S

the Mooer clone of the Diamond compressor is a nice buy

munckee

Grunfeld said:

Before.
After is a distinctive sound, but it's not a particularly useful sound.

ED1 turned up today, had a quick play and much prefer before the overdrive.  Really pleased with it does exactly what I wanted it to.  

Grunfeld

Nice one.
Yep before the OD is where I like mine too.