Mooer Yellow Comp

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Mooer Yellow Comp
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This is the kind of cheap pedal that makes you happy!
Anonymous 03.09.2016
The Yellow Comp is a great little mini pedal which rounds up the output signal nicely, eliminating undesirable frequencies and keeping the good ones, with some versatility of use, at a very friendly, budget price!.. and doing all that rather quietly, which is an important issue that kept me from opting for a slightly more expensive, dynamic compressor, such as the famous MXR Dynacomp, or the BOSS CS-3, as dynamic compressors are supposed to be more noisy, but yet might be more authentic in sound?

Let me warn you though, about this review, that pedals are NOT my specialty, I am mostly a plug and play guitarist, trying to use effects "minimally", save for a Wah-wah pedal, a little chorus at times, a rare delay, and some reverb.. But... I am indeed a specialist of TONE, and timber, and hearing and achieving "the" holy tone, which can be different, on different moments, at different times, for different people, but mostly it (for me) resembles the sweet music coming from a top notch old lamp radio (transmitting probably a super nice guitar tone through a vintage Fender Amp?)

And, yes, I did achieve some real sweet tones through the Yellow Comp, placed in between a Blues Junior Limited Edition and a Gibson SG. The VOLUME and EQ knobs on the Yellow Comp are great to have to be able to "keep your own tone". I normally have my Blues Junior dialed in on my usual set up, and with the Yelllow Comp's volume button (which controls the gain coming out of the compressor really), and the EQ dial, this compressor allows me to keep the output tone close to my normal tone while making the general sound nicer through compression.

So in this way, it is a great little "cleaner", just by itself, for clean tones, between an amp and a guitar. However, with the gain turned up on the compressor (through the volume dial), and equalized to your liking with the EQ, it becomes a compressor, plus a sort of an overdrive/distortion, or a booster, added on! It sounded especially magnificent with the amp dialed to make some real tube gain, plus the additional gain from the Yellow Comp with its volume dial set high.

With this sort of "overdrive" setting, plus an octave pedal, and a Crybaby, before the compressor, we were able to reach some incredibly far out dirty tones going on Hendrix-ian territories from the Blues Junior.

Coming back to clean settings, with the octave and Wahwah pedals still before the compressor, Yellow Comp cleaned up beautifully, making the tone round, and bright, and managed to keep all the potentially disturbing "high-pitch-grit-dirt", whatever you wanna call it, arising from the Wahwah, and the Octave pedal, OUT OF THE MIX!

Overall, Yellow Comp does the job, and it does it quietly, so I reckon that it is a good return on just a few bucks invested, and that, even for a tone freak like myself! It probably will not give that David Gilmore sustain per se, but there are Dyna Comps for that.. This compressor, on the other hand, cleans up nicely, by itself, or after other effects as well. It sure will remain a part of my set up, at the very end of the chain, just before the amp, until further developments!
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Love it!
Gerry 000 13.12.2021
Bought this for my pedalboard a few months back

Ive bought quite a few mooer pedals at this point and they have all been worth the money ( especially for a beginner who isnt spending big bucks yet! )

Well worth it. Great sound, easy to use and again inexpensive for a beginner in comparison to alot of other brands
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Great compressor!
Aron L 03.12.2021
Sounds great on guitar especially on my 12-string. When used on bass there is some low end loss but that is easy to fix with EQ after the pedal.
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Fantastic
Grif 17.05.2023
This compression pedal is amazing. It can work decently as a volume boost of you need it. It has 1 EQ band but really that's more than enough for a comp. It's actual compression works amazingly. You can go from a slight squeeze to the proper country stuff. I use it as a contanst on while gigging to help the guitar stand out a little more. For this purpose - it's perfect.
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Nice little one
Keman 15.09.2020
Nice optical comp, does the job for me. You should try various positions on your pedalboard to find out which is best for you. True bypass also works fine.
Don't overdo it with effect though, I prefer compression knob at 8-10 o'clock. Mostly use it with clean sound.
Pretty noisless. Well-made. Small.
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Nice little pedal
Ri Mi 28.09.2022
Compressor which does what you'd expect. No frills, cheap price, well made and nothing to complain about :-)
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All I need
billfromcork 01.02.2021
Using it to help the dynamics of fingerpicked electric. At mid settings it sends a really nice, clean, noise-free tone. I don't need it to produce very compressed, squelchy sounds so can't comment on that.
Well built.
Cons: None really - tone button seems unnecessary to me but maybe some people will use it.
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This is the Comp i was looking for!!
brunofaria93 15.01.2018
I use the Mooer Yellow Comp usually before my drives but as i'm using the Boss ES-8 looper i can put it anywhere i want it in the signal chain. I play mostly alternative rock and this comp makes the deal for me.

It's tiny, really well built and thank god there's a white indicator in the two small knobs so I can see properly what's the setting i'm on.
The knobs feel nice and the footswitch looks like it will last for ages.

When engaged it provides a clear compression, not too squishy, not too subtle. Enough to bring up those dynamics. I use it primarly with a clean sound and my notes become imediately more "roundy" and less sharp. With drives, i use the comp after the drive, so i can increase a bit of the already compressed signal and give a volume boost. Works better with a clean signal but it works well with distortion as well. Really clear tones.

Price: Totally worth it. There are plenty of more expensive pedals that simply don't provide the sound transparency that the Mooer Yellow Comp provides.
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Works well, sounds good
Kostas_ 04.09.2022
Sounds fine. I'm not a compressor expert but no issues with this one.
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Superb!
Gerza 08.06.2021
Awesome compressor pedal!
Perfect size!
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