Description
Most guitar compressors trace their DNA straight back to the old Dan Armstrong Orange Crush circuit of the ’60s. It worked, but it’s decades behind where compressor design has gone since. The Royal Plush, designed by Andy Fuchs, breaks from that lineage entirely, pairing IC-based circuitry with classic optical compression — the same approach favored in professional studio compressors — to deliver low-noise, warm, and remarkably neutral squeeze.
A dual polar power supply gives the Royal Plush an unusually wide, distortion-free clean signal swing, and there are no coupling capacitors in the signal path to rob your tone of high end or clarity. The result is a compressor that can act as a colorless boost or lay in smooth, musical compression without pumping, breathing, or other unnatural side effects.
Placement is entirely up to your rig and your ears:
- Set it first in the chain for added sustain and a consistent input level heading into the rest of your board
- Place it after your drive and modulation pedals to tame and level the overall processed signal, freeing you to push distortion pedals harder without losing control
Two controls — Volume and Bias — let you dial compression from a light, transparent limiting touch all the way to heavily squashed sustain, at unity gain or boosted output. True hardwire bypass keeps the signal path clean when the pedal is off, and premium components throughout back up the circuit’s studio-inspired design.
For guitarists and bassists who want compression that behaves like a well-designed studio unit rather than a vintage relic, the Royal Plush earns its place on the board.
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