So, when I was a kid learning how to play guitar, write songs and be in a band I used to dream of recording in hi-tech, expensive, recording studios while I tinkered around with my Fostex X-18 4 track. Having done a bit of that I slowly came to realise that the best music isn't always created and recorded in such state of the art environments and so at the ripe old age of forty COUGH COUGH COUGH, I've decided to get the band back together again and record something low tech and low budget but with enough energy and attitude to compensate for its sonic shortcomings, if my back will hold out long enough, that is.
The reason for this preamble is that one of the pieces of kit that I've decided I can't do this without is a compressor, hence my trawling the interweb tonight for a cheap quad comp that will enable me to compress overheads and bass guitar etc... The cheapest I could find was a second hand Samson for £80, which seemed like a decent enough piece of kit for the money but which then got me thinking, is that cheap and nasty enough and could I build four compressor circuits for less than £80?
My first thought was that the Orange Squeezer +++ might do the trick, plenty of control and a fairly low parts count, but then again maybe the Keeley four knob comp might be more suitable despite the higher parts count? Or maybe something even simpler than the OS+++?
My question is, have any of you ever recorded with a stompbox compressor on anything other than guitar/bass guitar (drums and vocals particularly) and if so, what was the comp and how did it go?
