I hear the Keeley Compressor is choice. Pretty sure he has some kind of discount package where you save like $50 if you get one of his Tube Screamers with it. Those things are fucking glorious.
not for metal, but i want to use it for clean guitar and most likely for a Gilmour style lead sound, to clean it up before the echo. harmony-central is a good place, but can sometimes be misleading and biased. ive been looking around and the mxr seems good for not a bad price. theres no mxr dealers on the Cape anyone know of any in the Boston area that carries MXR?