[Jim]

Like most folks here I play both electric and acoustic. One of my main pedals is a Marshall "Edward the Compressor". I mostly use it with my electrics, but I sometimes use it with my acoustics. When I use it with my acoustics, of course the most typical use is to crank up the sustain, but it is also great for making your overall tone sound cleaner by knocking off the highest and lowest peaks in your signal, or also by dialing it down to get that choppy effect that works really well for some tunes. I bought the Marshall rather than the more commonly seen Boss because the Marshall is built more like a tank than the Boss. The Marshall has a very heavy duty all metal construction so you can stomp on it to your heart's content without having to worry about breaking it, and it has the feature where you can cut it out of the circuit without getting any signal degradation.

The best thing to do is to take your guitar(s) to a store where you can try out some compression pedals and at a time of the day when you can hear yourself and the idiots are not trying to blow out the windows with their bad renditions of Stairway. Decide for yourself whether you would like one in your set up. I would recommend that you stick to the better quality ones, though. Cheap pedals sound like cheap pedals and they don't last long. On the other hand the ultra expensive boutique ones are not worth all the extra money unless you are a major recording studio buying one for professional recording purposes.