Citadel Electronics Bus Driver Analog VCA Compressor Pedal

£169.00

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Fresh on the menu for 2026 are the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals, freshly added and carefully selected. These New units are available to order online with fast, secure delivery from trusted UK retailers. Read on for full details, specifications, demos, videos, reviews, and the best places to buy the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals today.


Description

Fresh on the menu for 2026 are the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals, freshly added and carefully selected. These New units are available to order online with fast, secure delivery from trusted UK retailers. Read on for full details, specifications, demos, videos, reviews, and the best places to buy the Citadel Electronics Guitar Pedals today.

Based on one of the most famed and iconic recording studio compressors of all time, the Citadel Electronics Bus Driver puts this beloved effect onto any pedalboard. Built to seamlessly work with both guitar and bass, the Bus Driver provides a studio-grade, transparent, SSL-style compressor with a beautifully natural-sounding, powerful dynamic control.

Key Features

    Citadel Electronics

    Launched in 2025, Citadel Electronics offers premium effects for guitar and bass, designed and engineered by two of the most regarded and influential designers in the industry, Santiago Alvarez and Tommi Otsavaara. Between them, working and designing for some of the most prestigious and leading brands, including Darkglass, Behringer, Blackstar, Two Notes, Neural DSP and most notably, Marshall, where they worked together. Driven by innovation, Citadels’ design philosophy is to never simply repeat what’s already been done. Instead, making and producing never-before-done ideas or driving classic designs to completely new places, incorporating fresh features and technology. Each pedal is crafted to the highest specs using the highest-grade materials, ensuring a product that’s built to stand the test of time, whether at home, on the road or in the studio.

    Specifications

    • Pedal Type: Analogue
    • Power: 9V
    • Power Draw: 150mA 
    • Controls: Compression, Makeup, Attack, Release, Ratio switch, Auto Release, SC HPF switch
    • Bypass: True
    • Footswitch: Soft Switch

    Additional information

    Weight 0.5 kg

    Brand

    Citadel Electronics

    Citadel Electronics focuses on handcrafted pedals built with attention to detail and a strong tonal identity. Designed for players who value character and musical response, their circuits aim to enhance your core sound rather than mask it, offering rich textures and expressive dynamics in solid, thoughtfully built enclosures.

    Choose Citadel Electronics when you want boutique flavour with individuality. Whether it’s nuanced drive, textured modulation, or carefully voiced tone shaping, their pedals bring personality and refinement to a pedalboard without overcomplicating the experience.

    Category

    Guitar Pedals

    Tags

    Compressor

    A compressor pedal evens out your dynamics, smoothing peaks and lifting quieter notes so everything feels tighter and more controlled. It adds sustain, clarity, and balance — making clean chords ring longer, country licks snap with precision, and funk rhythms pop with consistency. Subtle or pronounced, compression shapes the feel of your playing as much as the sound.

    Use it at the front of your chain to tighten your core tone, add sustain to leads, or keep complex passages sitting neatly in the mix. From gentle polish to unmistakable squash, a compressor is one of those foundational tools that quietly makes everything sound more professional and dialled in.

    New

    This is brand new, fresh in, and a UK warranty is included. New Gear always comes from trusted UK music retailers.