Sorry! I didn’t mean for you to write all that out, thanks though...
As you know a compressor reduces the dynamic range of your bass signal. The most obvious benefit of bass compression is to stop the lows swamping the higher frequencies. This allows the bass to sit better with other instruments by controlling its dynamic range
...this is all I really do with compression and I’m lucky that the woman who constitutes the better half of musical duo is a sound engineer, has been for decades, I just moan about certain aspects of my tone (compression wise) and she sorts it. I just feel a bit stupid because with every other aspect of my tone I deal with it, I ask her what something is when I’m stumped but, compression...
Im going to read the two items you referred me to and ask my comrade for an explanation. In summary, yes, you still owe me a coffee ☕ 😁