I’m looking at getting one of these and now there seems to be a few on the market. Has anyone compared them or have experience with any of these! Clean seems super nice and not sure if Press has any advantages over it besides being a bit cheaper. And then there is The Pill that just got an updated.
I think there’s also the neon egg planetarium, which is similarly expensive, but I heard a few people say they liked it. I’ve never owned one personally. Definitely has a sidechain input though.
I’ve got an Empress Bass Compressor, which has a sidechain input. It’s mono. The sidechain input is of the send+return type - they mainly expect you’ll put an eq there but you can make it duck if you pass a key signal only to the return path. It’s got a couple of controls for colouring the sound as well as typical attack/release/theeshold etc.
Oto Boum also has a side chain input for its compressor. It’s key type rather than s/r type (I think), and you can also trigger it over MIDI. It’s a bit chunky and only kinda pedal-ish.
There are some options out there… I was mainly going to decide for either Clean or Press burn now I’m not sure. I like that they can make the sound better also.