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Introducing the OB.1 Optical Compressor

rear view orange guitar pedal showing 2 chrome nose input jacks, recessed DC jack and side profile view of black control knobs

An optical compressor of the highest quality, right at your feet. Integrated clean boost built in with foot-switchable and selectable standard clean boost, treble boost, or mid boost. Save room on your pedal board by integrating your compressor / clean boost / treble boost. The best choice for the first pedal in your pedal board signal chain. True bypass, premium all analog signal path …

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Gregg Stock

Gregg Stock is an analog engineer and co-founder of Strymon. When he's not deep within a circuit layout, he's busy cheering on his two sons that play professional baseball.

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OB.1 Review in Premier Guitar

OB.1 has just gotten a rave review in the November issue of Premier Guitar! ” … A compressor smoothes out the dynamics of your guitar, limits the amount of variation between soft and loud playing, and can also provide additional sustain. The Strymon OB.1 can do all that, and even adds a little boost. This Optical Compressor and Clean Boost pedal features true bypass and a low-noise, all-analog signal path. Strymon has taken the greatest qualities of high-end, vintage opto studio compressors and made them available in this small package … ” Read the full review

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