MOZZTRONICS CS-2 COMP SUSTAIN EFFECTS PEDAL

We’re going back to the “groovy” 70s with this one.

I was reading about Angus’ setup and the wireless system he used. Apparently he liked it so much he even recorded with it in the studio. So i looked at what was involved in the wireless system that might contribute to his sound, apart from the obvious brilliant playing, fingers, strings, SG, pickups, Marshall etc.
Drilling down, there was a limiter in there, that makes sense, the radio signal has a limited signal strength so to get the best signal to noise ratio compressing the heck out of a signal makes sense as the radio works more efficiently. The compression would also add a lot of sustain and might be the reason Angus liked it so much.

So i took that limiter circuit and added my own tweaks. I increased the range of the compression ratio so it could act more like a compressor as well as a limiter, i added a dry blend (parallel compression, an old studio trick) and a tilt eq. I used an optical element for the compression, which acts a bit slower than a 1176 fet comp and lets a bit more of the initial dynamics through (and dynamics are where its at, sound wise, all the interest in a note is the attack & initial dynamics, then comes the actual note itself), the dry blend lets you add more if you want.

Turn up the volume to use this as a compressor / sustainer / boost too !

You can run this before your drive pedals to get an even drive character, or run it after your drives, to boost the signal going to your amp.

This is designed to be full range so works equally as well on guitar and bass.

Video coming soon.

Mozztronics uses the industry standard Boss style 2.1mm center negative 9V DC socket for the power supply connection.