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Your Dream Tone Starts Here.

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.

Your Everything Upgrade.

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.

Vintage Inspiration, Modern Execution.Sound Design

The Compadre design project started with a study of some of  the finest analog compressors ever created, inspiring and guiding our  circuit design process. Utilizing a VCA in the compression circuits  allowed us to carefully tune the exact response and dynamics we desired  for each voicing.

For Studio mode, our goal was to achieve the  musical and transparent sound found within our favorite studio rack  units and the best vintage studio console bus compression. Careful  tuning of our detection circuit granted us exacting control over decay,  especially important for Squeeze mode. With ample sustain on tap, we  paid special attention to creating a completely smooth decay, with no  unwanted pumping artifacts.