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Enjoying this thread... Ped - have you tried the EBS? I'm currently using the new morph and have had the older version in the past. I find both very pleasing!

One of the good guys 👍🏻

I think it's important to recognise the distinction between different content creators. Some play so you can watch; others play so you can watch and learn. Some show and review gear and others primarily talk about gear. Then there are the teachers - music teachers, bass teachers, and those that do both. The rarest breed are the teachers who are great players/players who are great teachers; I'm not talking, in the immortal words of Flea, 'all flash and no smash', but the rounded players who also have a gift for teaching. The two that I really admire are Richie Blake and Dan Hawkins.

He looks like he's having such fun!

IME comps are almost as subjective as drives; people hear, 'feel' and prefer different aspects of the what they do to our signals, if we really 'hear' it at all(!). In this respect, they're more subtle than many other effects, like octavers for example, which are either analog/digital, up/down, track well/don't. Perhaps this is why the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome affects comps and drives so often, dividing opinion and ultimately having us move them around like hot cakes? Studio work is a different kettle of fish but then engineers' bewildering array of rack units - that I can't begin to understand - have always done those jobs for me. I've been caught in the buying and selling cycle many times and sure enough, the new 'high-end' (invariably pricey) comp fails to excite and is first on the chopping block when the next sparkly box drops. That said, I have a visceral desire for the new Cali in blue 🤣