Suhr Andy Wood Woodshed COMP, Руководство пользователя

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Woodshed Comp Overview (continued)
The Suhr Andy Wood Woodshed Comp is set with a fast-attack speed and
balanced compression that allows the guitar to sing, punch, and have that
sustain. Andy wanted the control’s sweet spot to be in a specific place. In turn,
you get a very sensitive range of the controls with a wide sweep, expanded
ratio, threshold and gain range. This allows the threshold to work on lower
signals, such as single coils. With the Woodshed Comp, a little goes a long
way when dialing in your compression. Woodshed Comp is more natural,
open, and present than anything else you’ve heard. This allows you to get
long, soaring sustain, without the need to push your gain too high on your
amp. This gives you that singing sustain, without the fizz.
There are all different types of compressors, VCA, FET, tube compressors,
all with different characteristics. VCA compressors are known for being quick
and having less distortion than FET or tube compressors. Our Koji Comp is
a VCA compressor that’s more similar to more popular compressor pedals
on the market. The new Woodshed Comp is completely different. Though it’s
also a VCA compressor, it uses a completely different process for gain-reduc-
tion. The biggest difference between the Koji Comp and the Woodshed Comp
is how the gain-reduction is controlled. Where the Koji is a ‘feed-back’ design,
the Woodshed is a ‘feed-forward’ design. ‘Feed-forward’ works by the sig-
nal going into the side-chain, which controls the gain-reduction of the whole
thing. In essence, in a ‘feed-back’ design, the output controls the gain-reduc-
tion, and in ‘feed-forward’, the input controls the gain-reduction. The Wood-
shed Comp is a very simple, feed-forward studio-type VCA compressor circuit
that has been tailored to work incredibly with guitar. The ‘feed-forward’ aspect
ultimately makes the Woodshed Comp more transparent and open than any-
thing else you’ve heard.
One of the most exciting features of the Woodshed Comp is that it has a
massive amount of headroom. In fact, the most headroom out of any of our
pedals. In essence, you can use it as a clean boost, with minimal to no com-
pression, and it would act as a high-gain boost.
By boosting the beginning of your signal chain and clipping the front of a tube
amp, you can get a nice saturation and palm-mutes sound just incredible. All
of that in such a tiny and durable package.