Milk Box
my mother’s friend asked me if it
was possible to build him a compressor that was “better than
the one [he] has now.” Not knowing what he had, I scoured
BYOC, Madbean and the like, and settled on a very powerful,
talk-of-the-town compressor. After finishing it, I tested it and
it sounded great—I knew he would be pleased, no matter
what he had. Upon mailing it, he called to explain that it
wasn’t better than what he already had. I was pretty blown
away, and admittedly somewhat dismissive of his tastes. The
pedal in question was the DOD Milk Box. I acquired one, and
I have to agree—the Milk Box is just awesome. It sustains like
crazy and makes the tone that much sweeter. Apart from its
standard controls, there is a touch-sensitive hi-cut knob. It’s
worth mentioning that, in keeping tradition with classic DOD,
the older version has several knobs named dumb things. They
eventually changed the knob labels to regular names, but it’s
the same circuit. It’s about $50, but prices are creeping upward
as we speak.
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