Berserker Electronics Sasquash Natural Compressor

The Berserker Electronics Sasquash Natural Compressor is a compressor pedal built for compression and sustain, and it is pitched squarely at a particular player: Pedal of the Day opened its review by calling it "a compressor for players who do not usually like compressors"¹. As of that review, dated 24 July 2026, the pedal was available for ordering from Berserker Electronics' website¹.

What it does

The Sasquash is not a clean-sheet design. According to Pedal of the Day, it "begins with a heavily modified Ross Compressor foundation", a circuit long used as the basis for boutique compressors, but it has been reworked to behave differently from the original¹.

The key change is a built-in frequency-dependent clean blend, tuned directly into the circuit rather than offered as a separate knob. Instead of mixing back a parallel copy of the dry signal, the circuit restores parts of the original signal itself, which avoids the phase issues that typical blend controls can introduce¹.

The stated goal, per the review, was to keep the good part of compression: more sustain, better consistency, and a little extra polish, while preserving pick attack, touch sensitivity, and the feel of your amp¹.

In the reviewer's summary: "Pushing what a compressor is capable of, but not stifling your sound, this thing fits in perfectly with any rig"¹.

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