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I’ve owned this pedal for years and it’s magical! It is actually one of boss’s best pedals ever. It can truly transform your tone into something incredibly rich and full of nice harmonic bliss. I love the CS3
Great video. I pretend to use this pedal with Turbo Overdrive. I play guitar on a punk rock band and the sound turns thin when perform solos. I will fix it adding the compressor.
Glad you enjoyed it. It might be a better idea to adjust the tone control on the turbo overdrive towards low so it’s not cutting so much bottom, rather than trying to add it again afterwards with the CS
I just cannot believe how people can be confused over four twiddely knobs, i have been gigging this pedal for around four decades ! if the level and tone knobs arnt self-explanatory to anyone then perhaps they need to find another occupation, attack and sustain also self explanatory, try setting level and tone to 11 o'clock and attack and sustain at around 2 oclock, well ? Do you hear any difference now ? Well ? Still confused ? Aw gee sus unbelievable ! 🤔
I've always loved this compressor - bought at least 3 (cs2 & 3) through the years - buy others, but I like this the best it's at least the easiest to dial in for me
The Beringer clone is an exact copy of this pedal for $30. This is not really a good demo lol. It makes a pretty big difference. Great for giving a fat clean strat tone. Many even use it as a boost.
@GreenEngineRecording this was really insightful. BUT I have to ask, is using XLR Y-splits really a good alternative to splitters? I like this idea because I don't like the idea of the sound engineer having to re-patch everything (even after sending them a stage plot). Does using XLR Y-split add that much more to the setup? I was thinking of creating a rig for 3x vocals, 2x guitars, 1xbass and leave the drums ambient as we never have trouble hearing those.
Not quite sure what you mean by”add that much more to the setup?” You could just use y-splits on all 6 channels but will obviously need a soundcard which has 6x mic level inputs.
Thank you so much for doing this video, I've been confused by this pedal since I bought it and it's spent more time off my board than on it. Now that I've watched this I think I might add it back on and give it a go!
It can make notes appear to last longer when you have a fast attack. This is because the compressor turns down the initial part of the note and the make up gain boosts the tale end.
Good question. I’ve been relying on laptops live since 2006 and never had one crash during a gig. As long as you have a stable system you won’t have to worry. :)
Good to know that the thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapters work fine on a hackintosh build. I'm about to make my old pc into one soon. Running a GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 MB with a built in TB3 port, 1060 ti 6GB ram & vengeance 64GB DDR4 3200mhz. Thanks for this!
Yes and it’s great to know that you can use the cheaper Apple adapters. I heard they wouldn’t work so annoyingly bought the Startech one first 😏 Good luck on your hackintosh journey!
@@GreenEngineRecording ah yeah thats the one i bought; startech. Has been working great on windows for me for 7years now. You're saying that one does work? And thank you!
Hey! Thanks for this. Would this work with Designare Z390? I already have working EFI on Mojave hackinotsh, could I simply update Mojave to say Monterey on same EFI? Thanks
Sir I may not understand everything you're saying, for I'm a beginner, but you are a good teacher. Most of what you're saying does not apply to me since I'm a solo act. But I did want to tell you teach very well. Thank you I do understand about an engineer messing up a show. Have a great day
Awesome tutorial! Great work here. One question, we have a 4-channel headphone amplifier (Mackie HM-4). Would that suffice? we´re a three piece band (we use loops with backing vocals and keys and second guitars). each of us gets different mix. With our setup we´re getting hella distortion on the in-ears for some reason (perhaps cos we´re using a mixer with only one output and we´re all getting the same mix, I know it´s not ideal but it´s what we could do with what we had) but your system seems to be able to work better, we also want to get the click-track completely independent and in one separate channel.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for reaching out. I’m a little unclear about what you are asking. The HM-4 only amplifies one stereo mix to 4 headsets. If that’s giving you distortion I’d assume the signal coming out of the mixer you’re feeding it with is too hot. I’m suggesting using a soundcard to create your individual mixes, which would require 4 separate headphone amplifiers in order for you to keep the mixes separate.
@@GreenEngineRecording Thanks for the reply! That makes sense. Probably the signal is coming out too hot from our tablet then. What about using the Zoom LiveTrak L-8 1 and DIs to split the signals of the lead vocal and guitars? So that the Zoom Livetrak is only for monitoring purposes and the splitted signal gets sent to the PA engineer independently. The LIveTrak allows 3 to 4 independent monitor mixes and that way the headphone amp wouldn´t be necessary either. Thanks in advance!
Thank you for the info! Once last thing, would the Soundcraft Ui16 be good too? Seems like a better option and it´s also rack-ready. I believe it has 4 independent outputs so allows 4 different monitor mixes. Thanks!@@GreenEngineRecording
Yup the soundcraft will work fine, remember you’ll still need headphone amps for the XLR outputs. The Behringer ones work great here as they are compact, cheap and have XLR inputs 😎
Loads of great information packed into a sub-three minute video. I needed to grab a pen and paper and take notes like I was back in school. For some reason, having it written down makes it even more useful. Thanks for taking the time to decode this pedal.
@@GreenEngineRecording I keep the attack fairly high, 3:00-ish and sustain fairly low. It depends on the amount of gain. With clean tones I set the sustain higher.
Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste” by Galaxie 500 brought me here. The guitar player plays an excellent dirty lead using this box with an Epiphone Riviera on this Jonathan Richman music to poem cover
I've been searching and searching for an example of compression with high gain and finally I have found one. No messing, no bullshit... a great little tutorial. Thanks buddy!
@@GreenEngineRecording yes I appreciate the video! I built one in 2019 but was not impressed. It was the margonaut Mac killer. I redlined the cpu very quickly. Then the Mac mini was out. Bought that, another dud. Then got an m1 MacBook pro. Another $4000 wasted. So then I combined the MacBook and the mini with Dante. That would be great except to do it right I think you need two Dante interfaces. So now I’m looking for the strongest hackintosh and looking at prices n stuff
Are you sure about this? The manual says the attack knob adjusts the intensity of the attack in the picking (fully clockwise retains the attack sound even in fast picking). It also says rotating the sustain knob clockwise increases the sustain time. It doesn't say anything about it being a preamp.
Thanks for your questions. Yes the attack knob does adjust the intensity of the picking as anti-clockwise you have a very fast attack setting on the compressor meaning it reduces the initial transients dulling the notes attack. While in the clockwise position it doesn’t react quick enough to reduce the attack part of the notes. Regarding the sustain knob, there is no such thing as adding sustain but by boosting the signal level it takes longer before you can’t hear the note any more therefore it seems like you have increased the length of the note, whereas in fact you have just increased the overall volume :)
Just to add on later. Compressors have a threshold below which no compression is applied. Boosting the input means you will be above the threshold more. With some settings you could have only the transients passing the threshold. Boost the input gain and the held part of the note could be over the threshold as well.
nice looking video. I could be wrong, but it seems like your guitar is being compressed at all times by another compressor in your post process mixing? Doesn't make for a very good example of what the boss compressor actually sounds like
Thanks for the comment. There is no post compression being applied, apart from any normalisation RU-vid might be adding, but that’s unfortunately out of my control
