thedontcarebear Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 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....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escholl Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_ferret Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 See the basschat wiki for all things compressed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedontcarebear Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 Cheers, just had a play with it here at home, will try it at practice this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedontcarebear Posted October 5, 2008 Author Share Posted October 5, 2008 [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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
escholl Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 [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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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