Strymon Compadre Dual Voice Compressor & Clean Boost

Your Dream Tone Starts Here

Put your signal chain on the right track with the Strymon Compadre, a studio-quality analog compressor and versatile boost designed to enhance your guitar's natural tone.

Compadre combines two distinct analog compression voices with clean and soft-clipped boost circuits, giving you everything you need to shape your guitar's front-end tone. Add compression for smooth transparency or vintage-style squeeze, then engage the Boost for additional clean or dirty gain.

A dedicated Blend control lets you mix your dry signal back in for a natural attack, even with heavy compression settings.

Your Everything Upgrade

Your tone can be shaped by countless components—from pickups and tubes to capacitors and speakers. Compadre takes a different approach: enhance the equipment you already have.

Its Class A JFET input circuit, studio-quality analog compression, and musically voiced analog boost circuits work together to bring out the character of your amplifier and guitar.

The result is a highly responsive front end that can make your existing rig feel like it has received a custom boutique-amp upgrade.

Super Flexible, Super Easy

Compadre is designed to provide deep tone-shaping capabilities without unnecessary complexity.

Auto Makeup Gain and Auto Threshold mean you can simply turn up the Compression control to dial in the amount of compression you want. The controls are carefully voiced to produce musical results across a wide range of guitars, amplifiers, and playing styles.

Two Distinct Analog Compression Circuits

Choose between two compression modes, each with its own character:

• Studio Mode — Smooth, transparent compression inspired by high-end vintage studio rack compressors. Ideal for adding polish, consistency, and sustain while preserving your natural tone.
• Squeeze Mode — Harder, more pronounced compression designed to capture the feel of classic guitar compressor pedals, with heavy compression and increased sustain.

Clean or Dirty Boost

Compadre features two distinct analog boost circuits:

• Clean Boost — Adds volume and gain while maintaining a clear, natural character.
• Dirty Boost — Introduces soft clipping for an overdrive-like response and additional harmonic character.

Selectable Boost EQ

Tailor the boost to match your guitar and amplifier with three selectable EQ curves:

• Treble — Adds sparkle, clarity, and presence.
• Mid — Adds body and pushes the midrange for a fuller tone.
• Flat — Boosts the full frequency range without emphasizing a particular part of the spectrum.

Key Features

• Dual-voice analog compressor
• Studio and Squeeze compression modes
• Clean and dirty analog boost circuits
• Selectable Treble, Mid, and Flat boost EQ
• Blend control for parallel compression
• Auto Makeup Gain
• Auto Threshold
• Class A JFET input circuit
• Studio-quality analog signal processing
• Highly responsive dynamic feel
• Designed for guitar, amp, and pedalboard applications

Shape Your Front-End Tone

Whether you want transparent studio compression, classic pedal-style squeeze, additional sustain, a clean volume boost, or a touch of soft-clipped overdrive, Compadre puts all of it in one compact pedal.

It is an ideal choice for players looking to get more from their existing guitar and amplifier setup without changing the fundamental character of their rig.