MXR DYNA COMP

POWER TOOLS

- CHRIS GILL

CATEGORY: COMPRESSOR PEDAL

THE MXR DYNA Comp wasn’t the first compressor pedal on the market — the Maestro SS-1 Sustainer and Electro-Harmonix Black Finger preceded it by a few years — but it was certainly the first to be embraced by a wide variety of professional players who helped it become a standard, essential item in many guitarists’ rigs for nearly five decades. Designed to provide live performers with a low-cost alternative to the expensive and bulky rack-mount compressors used in the studio, the Dyna Comp can provide a smooth, professional polish to one’s sound, but it also can deliver special effects with their own distinctive “squashed” sonic fingerprint.