Suhr Woodshed Comp

Suhr Woodshed Comp is a compressor pedal that is the foundation of some of Andy Wood’s favorite tones. The compressor pedal’s main goals were to provide compression while maintaining the tone and transients of the guitar, without being as temperamental as vintage pedals. Don’t let its size fool you. The tonal characteristics of this tiny pedal can only be eclipsed by its durability.

The Suhr Andy Wood Woodshed Comp is set with a fast-attack speed and balanced compression that allows the guitar to sing, punch, and have that sustain. The pedal is more natural, open, and present than anything else you’ve heard.

One of the most exciting features of the Woodshed Comp is that it has a massive amount of headroom. In fact, the most headroom out of any of our pedals. In essence, you can use it as a clean boost, with minimal to no compression, and it would act as a high-gain boost.

The Woodshed Comp is a completely different compressor. Though it’s also a VCA compressor, it uses a completely different ‘Feed-forward’ process for gain-reduction. In essence, in a ‘feed-back’ design, the output controls the gain-reduction, and in ‘feed-forward’, the input controls the gain- reduction.

The essence of this pedal is a very simple, feed-forward, VCA compressor, tailored towards a studio-type schematic but it works incredibly with a guitar. The ‘feed-forward’ aspect ultimately makes the Woodshed Comp more transparent and open than anything else you’ve heard. In the end, after all of the testing against Andy’s favorite vintage pedal and rack compressors, the Woodshed Comp ended up being the best sounding.

Suhr Woodshed Comp demo video