Squeeze this...

You know, when it comes to guitar effects, compressor pedals are one of those things that you don’t really feel you need, but once you get one, you wonder how the fuck you ever got along with out it. I spent a couple hours today making an Orange Squeezer (courtesy of a schematic off the excellent General Guitar Gadgets page.) What a fantastic compressor this is. Sustain for days, and no low-end attenuation at all that I can hear. That Dan Armstrong cat knew a thing or two about a thing or two. There are about 40 different Orange Squeezer clones available; I don’t know how close any of them sound to the one I made, or how close mine is to the “real thing,” never having come in contact with one before, but damn…

I haven’t put it in a Hammond box yet; as soon as I do, I’ll drop a photo and maybe a couple samples, wherein you can be incredibly impressed with my stellar guitar playing once again.