CRAZY TUBE CIRCUITS (Phi) Golden Ratio
Guitar Player|July 2022
EFFECTS PEDALS
MICHAEL ROSS
CRAZY TUBE CIRCUITS (Phi) Golden Ratio

COMPRESSION MAY BE the least understood of effects. The easiest way to comprehend it is to think about turning a simple tube amp up. As you increase the volume, the amp gets louder and the tubes begin to distort. Past a certain point, however, the distortion increases but the amp ceases to get any louder. That is compression at work. The tubes have placed a cap on how loud the signal can get. This effect can increase the apparent sustain of your guitar, and a compressor pedal performs a similar function, but without the distortion.

Cutting my teeth in the clubs of Manhattan, where any kind of volume is frowned upon by the people who live upstairs, I relied on an MXR Dynacomp, the only compressor pedal available at the time, to supply sustain at low volume. While the Dynacomp offered only two controls - volume and sensitivity - the Crazy Tube Circuits Golden Ratio compressor offers the tweak-ability of a studio rack compressor or a sophisticated plug-in simulation.

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