Description
The Tone Corset gives you the kind of dynamics control that studio engineers chase on a mixing console, packed into a pedal built for the board. It’s an analog compressor with a parallel-blend circuit, so rather than forcing your signal through an all-or-nothing squeeze, you dial in exactly how much compressed signal sits underneath your natural dry tone. Mike Matthews himself called it “the funkiest analog compressor I ever heard on guitar,” and the flexibility here backs that up — everything from percussive, pick-forward funk to thick, leveled-out sustain is on tap.
- Sustain sets how hard the compression grabs your signal; roll it clockwise for more squash and longer sustain
- Attack shapes recovery speed — turn clockwise to slow the response and let more of your initial pick transient punch through before compression kicks in
- Blend mixes dry and compressed signal in parallel, running from fully uncompressed to fully compressed so you can keep pick attack and low-end punch intact while still taming peaks
- A Pad switch drops the input level, which comes in handy for hot humbucker-loaded guitars, basses, or any high-output source that might otherwise overdrive the input stage
- True bypass keeps your signal chain clean when the pedal’s off
Place it early in your chain — right after your guitar or in front of your dirt pedals — to even out picking dynamics before they hit fuzz, drive, or modulation. Runs on the included 9V battery, or an optional 9.6VDC-200mA adapter (not included), drawing a modest 10mA. Mono in, mono out, housed in a standard-format enclosure at 4.5″ x 2.75″ x 2.1″.
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