# CS-3 Compression Sustainer

> This dynamics entry consolidates documented CS-3 Compression Sustainer variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/cs-3-compression-sustainer/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Dynamics
- **Types:** Compressor, Sustain
- **Also known as:** Blue compact compressor, Boss CS-3, CS-3
- **Controls:** Attack, Level, Sustain, Tone
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 2 boards, 2011–2018

A blue compact stompbox with four black controls, carried for decades as the clean compression stage.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nels Cline | Pelican-case travel rig | 2018-10-01 | 4 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/nels-cline/pelican-case-travel-rig-2018/ |
| Nels Cline | Wilco straight-line effects rig | 2011-11-01 | 4 | Source-described | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/nels-cline/wilco-straight-line-rig-2011/ |