Strymon Compadre Dual Voice Compressor & Boost

Start your signal chain with the best possible version of your guitar tone. Treat your guitar signal to true studio quality analog compression with two distinct voices for smooth transparency or vintage squeeze. Hit the Boost switch to add clean boost or soft-clipped dirty boost, with the EQ curve of your choice. Mix in some dry signal for natural attack even with extreme compression settings. Feel the perfectly tailored dynamic response, feeding your amp and effects just what they need to sound their best.

From pickups, tubes, capacitors, to speaker cabinets—the aspects of a rig that can be upgraded or changed are nearly endless. Plug in Compadre and you may find you already have everything you need for the tone you’ve been seeking.

Bring out your amp’s character in ways you never thought possible. Compadre’s Class A JFET input circuit, studio quality analog compression, and musically voiced analog boost circuits all work together to make your amp sound like it was just modified by a world-class boutique amp designer.

Compadre gives you everything you need to shape your front end tone, and nothing to slow you down. Auto makeup gain and auto threshold mean that all you have to do is turn up the Compression knob to dial in the desired amount. Compadre’s wide variety of tone shaping features are all designed to easily sound great across a wide variety of settings.

Choose between two compression circuits, each with its own unique character. Studio mode gives you the smooth, beautifully transparent compression typically found in the best vintage studio rack units. For a harder compression effect typical of classic guitar pedals, Compadre’s Squeeze mode is designed to deliver heavy compression with maximum sustain.

Compadre gives you two distinct analog boost circuits: a clean boost, and a dirty boost that introduces soft clipping, characteristic of an overdrive pedal. The selectable boost EQ ensures the perfect compliment to any guitar and amp combination. Add sparkle and shine with a treble boost, fatten your tone with the midrange boost, or level up the full frequency range with flat mode. 

Connect an expression pedal to add premium VCA-based volume control. Add an optional or to store and recall your favorite settings. Integrate Compadre into a MIDI pedalboard using our and access up to 300 preset locations. 

Premium analog VCA (Voltage Controlled Amplifier) compressor circuits

Two voicing options: smooth studio compression and hard pedal style compression

Independently controlled clean or dirty boost circuit with 3 EQ options

Dirty boost option provides overdrive when boost is engaged

DRY Knob lets you blend the dry signal with the compressed signal to preserve attack transients

High impedance ultra low-noise discrete Class A JFET preamp input

Low impedance mono output

Output VCA allows Compadre to function as a volume pedal when a standard TRS expression pedal plugged into the dedicated Volume jack

Compatible with for remote selection of a Favorite preset

Compatible with for remote selection of 3 presets

Full featured MIDI control. Access to 300 presets and remote parameter control via quarter-inch TRS. (requires Strymon or MIDI > TRS interface)

Selectable True Bypass (electromechanical relay switching) or ultra low-noise Buffered Bypass

Strong and lightweight anodized dark red aluminum chassis

9V DC power supply included. Power requirements: maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 150mA of current

Compressor Signal/Noise: 109 dB typical

Dimensions: 4.5” deep x 4” wide x 2.5” tall (11.4 cm deep x 10.2 cm wide x 6 cm tall)

Designed and built in the USA