Compressor

[thedontcarebear]

I have a EHX white finger compressor, and I've never really used it, however I think I should as I do slap a bit.

How should I go about setting it up?

This is the pedal in question.......

[escholl]

i've got a blackfinger, and i've gotten best results (for me) going:

LED, Squash Off, Compression about 2 o'clock. Adjust input gain to suit, and adjust output gain to unity (so the pedal is the roughly the same volume, on or off). don't have a sensitivity knob on the blackfinger so no idea what that does

Of course, you'll probably just want to play around with the compression level till you find something you like. Squash will flatten the dynamic range quite a bit, and really only applies to the "lamp" setting according to the manual. The "lamp" setting will compress the highs less than the lows and give a slower attack than "LED" as well. At least, that's what it does on mine.

[bass_ferret]

See the basschat wiki for all things compressed

[thedontcarebear]

Cheers, just had a play with it here at home, will try it at practice this week.

[thedontcarebear]

[quote name='bass_ferret' post='299916' date='Oct 5 2008, 03:00 PM']See the basschat wiki for all things compressed[/quote]

This pedal doesn't have the usual controls found on a compressor.

[escholl]

[quote name='escholl' post='299869' date='Oct 5 2008, 01:35 PM']...Adjust input gain to suit...[/quote]

i should have added, i've got my input gain set so that when i'm playing hard (but not really really hard, or really digging in, or slapping) the red compression LED lights up pretty much all the way. With the compression knob set where it is, this still lets the dynamics through, while evening out any big spikes, transients from slapping, or poor technique :lol