Polyend Press is a fully analog stereo compressor in a pedal enclosure, built around a VCA circuit. It works at the end of the chain, gluing a mix, a pedalboard or a drum bus together, and its stereo ins and outs mean it no longer has to sit in front of your time-based effects.
Stereo compression where the pedalboard ends
Pedal compressors usually work in mono and demand a slot at the start of the chain, which leaves reverb and delay running loose. Press takes a stereo signal on 6.3 mm jacks and closes the chain: reverb tails stop jumping, a synth stops climbing over everything else, and the level across the whole board evens out without losing depth.
A sidechain that decides what triggers it
High-pass and low-pass filters act on the detector signal only, so bass weight or a kick will not push the compressor into pumping, while the tone passing through stays untouched. A dedicated footswitch flips the detector between the signal itself and an external stereo source. A mix control gives you parallel compression, and the Tilt EQ lifts the top at the expense of the bottom, or the reverse, on the wet signal alone.
KEY FEATURES
- Fully analog VCA path, compression without added colour
- Stereo ins and outs for end-of-chain use
- Variable ratio from 2:1 up to limiting
- Separate attack, release and threshold controls
- Parallel compression via the mix control
- Tilt EQ acting on the wet signal only
- High-pass and low-pass filters in the sidechain
- Footswitchable detector: internal signal or external stereo source
- All-aluminium enclosure and knobs
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Type: analog stereo VCA compressor
- Input: 6.3 mm jack stereo/mono, maximum level 8 Vrms
- Outputs: 6.3 mm jack L/mono and R
- Sidechain: input and thru on 3.5 mm minijack
- Input impedance: line 20 kOhm, instrument 1 MOhm
- Output impedance: 100 Ohm
- Distortion: below 0.1%
- Noise: below 0.001%
- Power: 9 V / 350 mA, adapter not included
- Dimensions: 12.0 x 10.6 x 5.7 cm with knobs
- Weight: 0.6 kg
