So, here is Gregor’s take on the Caveman Audio compressor now:
He showcases it with a bunch of pre-amp pedals (paging @jacq @booker_t @John_E @Al1885 @eric.kiser and likely countless others)
I just hate, hate those knobs… luckily my pockets also aren’t deep enough for these babies 
Not a fan of chicken knobs? 
OMG, they are so ugly 
Worse, you can’t dial them with your fingers only, you have to include a wrist motion 
Thanks @joergkutter. Very happy with the Caveman Preamp. Sticking with the Cali76 Compressor.
Wow, that’s a cool video for clean tone. It’s not much difference on my IPad Pro but when I played them on my monitor, it sounded different. They were all great sounds. Not cheap. I like the Chicken head knobs for this application.
Thanks @joergkutter
It sounds good but in the end… it’s a compressor, and they want $400 for it. At least it has the correct controls, good to see a compressor with all the necessary parameters.
Someone will eventually make a killing selling a normal $20 compressor circuit to bass players, in a nice housing, with the controls dumbed down to “Compression” (threshold), “Loudness” (makeup gain - what they call boost), and a three way switch for “Fingers, Pick, Slap” (attack/release presets).
I’ll buy that pedal, provided it has only one control called “compression”, with two or maybe three positions (“low”, “medium” and “high” or something like that 
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Oh there’s lots like that
I like this compressor idea of yours. If someone built it, they could easily sell it for $150-$200. Do you plan on making it an optical compressor? Can I get serial #0? What’s the wait time?
You know the only thing that makes this a bad plan is my endemic laziness
How about this?
Yep there you go, thats basically it
Then you need this pedal @Mike_NL. One knob for compression and they added a preamp to it as well.
Yeah these are everywhere, the single knob compressors. Too blunt an instrument IMO but hey if you like it…
Battalion’s a nice preamp, BTW - owned one. Too transparent for my tastes though.
Yeah I did a bit of reading round / listening to a bunch of preamps. The SGT was the first one I heard that sounded like the sound in my head.
Not sure about the one dial compressor tbh. Maybe a Cali76 is in my future. I’m waiting for @booker_t to tire of his and low ball him 
That’s some truth.
Thanks for posting this Jörg.
I had to break out the earbuds for this video. This thing is so subtle I can’t tell if I was imagining a difference or there really was a difference.
I know Always makes me wonder whether in reality you just get a 400 dollar “producer switch” with these (transparent) high-end compressors 
