Diamond Guitar Compressor

Top quality, very smooth and subtle compression that does bright-but-warm for funk and jangle, as well as quite dark and thick sounds for leads (think the last Dire Straights album). The controls are very easy to use and the EQ especially does an amazing job of giving very musical results with only the one knob. It also sounds great without the volume high up, unlike the Boss units. This is very useful, because it doesn't involve any big jumps in level or hiss or noise that I've found with most other compressors.

Some reviews say it doesn't do the country twang/squash, but it's more a question of what you put through it. I have a Rickenbacker with vintage low-output pickups that sounds lovely through this, but doesn't get anywhere near the fat country sound that I could get from the Boss compressors with it; but a high-output humbucker on other guitars like a 335 copy or a Parker Fly starts squashing from very low compression settings, so its really a question of what you use with it. Low output single coils will not squash, but I think more modern single coils and certainly any humbuckers will, and everything sounds great through it. It has an amazing range of tones. Highly recommended and worth every penny, plus built like a tank.