alhbass Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I'm looking for the right compressor... Tried some cheaper ones (Ashdown, Digitech, Boss...) and wasn't convinced by the experience. So for now I play wihout any compression. But I'm really interested in what I've heard about Dave Hall's valve compression pedal. I think it might be just what I'm after. But they're quite expensive, so I'm reluctant to just go ahead and buy one without ever having heard one, let alone tried it myself. So I got in touch with Dave, and he said "ask on Basschat". So here I am. Anyone out there got one? I'd welcome any advice, comments (good or bad). Best of all would be a vid clip to hear one in action... But I'll take any help I can get. So let me know....? Thanks. Oh, and in case you were going to ask, I like the sound of them because sometimes I'm after a kind of vintage sound (I have a P Bass, with Rotosound Tru-bass Nylon tape flatwound strings on it) when finger picking funk lines - but then I also have an active Washburn with roundwounds that I use for faster, trashy, slap'n'pop, strumming in a kind of "wish I was Les Claypool" style. So I figured the choice of hard or soft compression, combined with valve tone the DHA pedal offers might work pretty well... I use a Markbass 410 with LMK head, and a Sansamp Bass driver when I want a bit of extra grit and grind in the sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johnzgerman Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 i bought one recently on here but havent really had the chance to use it in practice room/live situatuation with decent size amp yet. i have had some good noises out of it through a little ampeg combo and even the laptop with headphones (i am aware that the laptop compresses it aswell) though. it takes a fair bit of tweeking as the pots dont seem to be in any way linier so very small amounts of movement make a big difference. it will do very light undistorted compression to quite vicious fuzzy stuff, overall i really like it and i got it at a reasonable price too:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alhbass Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 Well, well done for getting it at a reasonable price anyway! If they were a bit cheaper I'd probably buy one and hope for the best, but not at £150. If you manage to get any sound or vid clips, it would be very interesting to know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sifi2112 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 [quote name='alhbass' post='711273' date='Jan 13 2010, 01:43 PM']Well, well done for getting it at a reasonable price anyway! If they were a bit cheaper I'd probably buy one and hope for the best, but not at £150. If you manage to get any sound or vid clips, it would be very interesting to know...[/quote]I'm very tempted to get the Markbass Compressore without even testing it but at £170+ ! check out [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/"]http://www.ovnilab.com/[/url] cheers Simon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alhbass Posted January 13, 2010 Author Share Posted January 13, 2010 [quote name='sifi2112' post='711713' date='Jan 13 2010, 06:37 PM']I'm very tempted to get the Markbass Compressore without even testing it but at £170+ ! check out [url="http://www.ovnilab.com/"]http://www.ovnilab.com/[/url] cheers Simon[/quote] Thank you very much for the link - that's very helpful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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