When it comes to cramming a whole rack unit into a stompbox, few companies are more adept than Becos. Now, the pedal firm is back with a tweakable mini overdrive to go and its simplest ever compressor.
We meet Costel Barac, the Romanian pedal guru behind BecosFX to find out how he got into the pedal-building game, how he came up with the Stella and what makes his compressor so special.
We’ve seen rackmount studio compressors with fewer controls than this little pedal from Romanian maker Becos. Can it possibly sound as ‘pro’ as it looks?