Compression is the most-misunderstood pedal on the board

I keep seeing people put a compressor at the END of their chain, after delay and reverb, as a 'limiter' to even out the mix. That's not what a guitar compressor does. That's what a studio bus comp does, and it's a completely different circuit. A guitar compressor (Ross, Dyna, Keeley clone, whatever) is a sustainer. It pushes up the tail of a note. You put it BEFORE drive, before chorus, before everything except maybe a tuner and a wah. Run it after a delay and you're sustaining the wet signal, which collapses your repeats into a single held tone. It's a mistake every time. Signal chain on my Jaguar -> AC15 rig: 1. Tuner 2. Compressor (Cali76) 3. Boost 4. Drive 5. Chorus (CE-2W) 6. Delay 7. Reverb Compress before chorus, never after. The chorus modulates pitch by milliseconds. If you compress that, you're flattening the modulation that's supposed to make the pedal work. Anyone running it differently and getting a result you actually like, I want to hear why.