This is a clone of the Dan Armstrong Orange Squeezer compressor that I built a little while ago and just got around to putting in a case. Unfortunately I didn’t do much research before I built this pedal. What I had heard was that it is a little dirty, meaning not particularly transparent, and that people love it. As you can tell by the sticker I put on it, I was hoping for an all out “crush”ing compression. It is actually a pretty subtle pedal, at least compared to what I was looking for, it has a pretty quick attack that “squeezes” your transients, while not really doing much for the sustain. It just doesn’t create the gooey smashing style of compression that I was looking for, though it’s not meant to. What I did find was that it sounds awesome feeding distortion effects, I only tried it feeding the Blue Box I made previously,  Mimi’s Heliotrope (not really a distortion) and the overdrive on her practice amp. It greatly increased the overall sound of the distortion, removing a little mud and adding presence. I really liked it feeding my Blue Box and will probably use them together from now on.

Same as last time I used a tonepad board, however this time I was much smarter about buying parts and fitting them into the box. There is one knob controlling the level out, and an internal trimpot which is a bias control, something you only need to set once.

I also built the red cable connecting the two pedals. I used Canare, probably the best cable in existence, and Switchcraft right angle connectors, the cable was 85 cents a foot, and the connectors were 1.25 dollars each. Making this a deal even compared to bargain store bought cables. I considered getting Neutrik connectors to really make it the best cable it could be, but they are about 5 dollars each so whatever.

Thanks to Tina for the pictures.