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[quote name='deksawyer' post='788532' date='Mar 28 2010, 02:29 PM']Bit confusing as to whether this has been nabbed yet or not - I'd like to buy it and can pay today whatever method you prefer. cheers D.[/quote] Apologies! I completely forgot to update the thread! I'm afraid the Compressor is now sold and very soon to be on it's way to it's new home! Thank you everyone for your interest. Dood.

Ah no problem Ziggy! - I hope I have been of help I defintely agree with having a fiver to get under those keyboard tones!!

Hi Ziggy, sorry for taking a while getting back to you - It has been a busy day! Ok, well - I believe the SMX head has the Dual Band compressor on it? Or not? - It's a pretty good compressor on the head. It's not a 'personal favourite' - but, like the EBS Multicomp it compresses bass end and treble end seperately. The C300 is able to do this but also compress a third middle band of the audio spectrum as well which I feel is better in some ways. A lot of bass guitar 'power' (want for a better description) is in those low regions, including lower and upper mids. Maybe the crossover point of a normal dual band compressor leaves too much of a gap in the spectrum 'untouched' for certain playing styles? I would defintely spend time with the SMX - maybe undertsand a bit more about multiband compression and how it can effect your bass tone at the end of your signal chain. Too much compression in the bottom end Vs top end can make your bass sound thin and strangled. Too much compression on the top end but not the bottom end may lose you defintion - so It's a balance between 'control' and tone! [quote]forgive me for being a numpty but am a right in thinking with compression you can get nicer tones ie for slap and tightness etc?[/quote] I don't want to sound like I am teaching granny to suck eggs, but yes - though don't expect compression to make a bad tone good. Certainly compression can really help bring a smoothness or uniformity to the different dynamics of the slap technique. For example, I change from 'thumb up' technique to 'thumb down' technique in parts of songs. Both have different tones on my basses along with different volumes for, say, pops and strums. A compressor can tidy up those ragged peaks and smooth proceedings nicely. 'Tightness' is a good description. I find that a lot of compressors on the market don't handle 'sub' bass that well - but this is actually a good thing. If you've ever played a bass amp with far too much sub 30Hz boost on it - the bass tone will sound wooly as the speakers flap about, desperately trying to reproduce sounds that they physically can not. Thus, the side effect of using a compressor is filtering out those useless sub bass sounds from reaching the amp in the first place. The speakers can then concentrate on reproducing frequencies they *can* and - as you say - the Bass sounds a lot tighter! I use compression for slap techniques - tapping and also simulating clean guitar parts (on 6 & 7 string) It can even out strummed parts and also bring up the volume of tapped parts so they are loud enough to switch from normal fingering wihout too much of a volume drop. Certainly a multiband compressor is far better for these techniques than a full band (Alesis 3630, DBX 160 as examples.) The C300 can do Full Band and Multiband compression, along with noisegating seperately on both channels. Then there is parallel compression..... I've typed this out quite quickly, so if there is anything that doesnt make sense - shoot me a question or 3!

kk, BassULike has first expression of wish, Owen next, Ziggy is asking about compression useage, which I intend to give a good reply to tomorrow! )

Hey guys! I'll just check my PM's as it's late and I'm all confuzzed! I'll see who is first in with the dibs! I'll reply to the comp questions properly when I can concen-mental-trate tomoz!