I gotta say something about these 1176 guitar pedals that have been making appearances recently:
The UA 1176 is and traditionally was a studio piece of equipment used on tracks in the studio (I have UA 1176, Waves CLA etc DAW plugins myself).
Rarely, they were used with a guitar plugged direct into them (e.g. the 2x 1176 setup used on "Black Dog" by Zep).
But they're mainly used for guitar tracks, drums tracks, bus tracks etc... in a studio environment.
Therefore, I find it eyebrow-raising that CaliFX (seems to be the first to market) creates an 1176... for your guitar pedalboard.
And now Wampler is getting in on the 1176-for-guitar-pedalboard theme.
Now, I'm not saying they're useless; undoubtedly they would work great as a compressor. But the fact that they incorporate some of the 1176 circuit (in a pedal-sized format) doesn't make them some sort of "golden fleece" type of guitar compressor. Point is, you'll get pretty much the same compression performance out of a regular Wampler EGO Compressor (I have one), Keely or even the standard-for-decades MXR DynaComp on your pedalboard... simply because you're playing the guitar with it, not mixing tracks.
I mean, we're talking about guitar here - and compression here (not like, guitar & Roland Dimension D type effect) And if it's a distorted tone, you've already got compression. A standard school of thought on putting compression (1176, LA-2A, LA-3A, Distressor, etc) on distorted guitar tracks in the studio is: "no compression needed - it's already compressed enough" (although it's not a rule). Clean tones are of course a different ballgame.
For an example, I suppose a parallel would be "let's make an API channel strip pedal for your guitar pedalboard"... i.e. questionable.
Would it work? Yes. Is it really useful? Hmm. Does it make sense? Meh.