gafbass02 Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I swear by compression and won't take a bass anywhere without one. I find they add punch and make playing more effortless and allow me more touch sensitivity making the whole thing more responsive and alive. Funnily despite having owned many compressors i always go back to the good ol boss cs3 it just works for me. If you check out my band lounge fly in my sig that's my sound and I don't think it suffers from it at all :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphead Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 [quote name='GremlinAndy' post='872319' date='Jun 19 2010, 11:11 PM']I too have the Distressor. It's the only compressor I've ever got on with. I was trying over and again to find why people swear by compressors... as all they apperaed to do was as stated above, take away dynamics. But now I find that the settings I'm using on the Distressor give me no loss of dynamics, and it's barely even there, but it does just tidy up my playing a little. (it's no substitute for perfect fingering tho, ...but then I'm far from perfect.) The key for me is to have so little noticable compression that I can forget it's there. Mind you £1000 plus, is a lot of money to have something in the chain which I can't detect 99.999% of the time, I guess. All other compressors I tried were basically, pants tho.[/quote] Hi Has anyone tried rack mounts such as the Aleis 3060 or similar compressors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensenmann Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Yuk, stay away from this one. I´d better use no compression than an Alesis. Get a dbx160 A (or X or XT) and you´re done. You can´t dial in any bad sounding settings (in opposite to a Distressor or 1176) because it´s an automatic comp. Best bang for the buck on pro level. If you want to sink serious money into a compressor get any LA2A, LA3A, LA4, 1176 or Distressor. But mind that more knobs mean more control mean more can be dialed in wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GremlinAndy Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 [quote name='jensenmann' post='893006' date='Jul 12 2010, 05:51 PM']Yuk, stay away from this one. I´d better use no compression than an Alesis. Get a dbx160 A (or X or XT) and you´re done. You can´t dial in any bad sounding settings (in opposite to a Distressor or 1176) because it´s an automatic comp. Best bang for the buck on pro level. If you want to sink serious money into a compressor get any LA2A, LA3A, LA4, 1176 or Distressor. But mind that more knobs mean more control mean more can be dialed in wrong.[/quote] I think I'd agree with that post wholeheartedly. As I mentioned earlier, I have a Distressor and it did take me a while to find out how it worked to best effect. It took enough rehearsals before I got it right that I nearly decided to get shut... I'm glad I didn't, and in fairness, now I know how it all works, it's fairly easy to use. However an automatic compression would be a more immediate solution. But steer away from the cheapest of cheaps. I reckon they probably rob you of more than they give you. *that was my experience anyway* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphead Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 HI All Thanks for your help,I will spend th money :-) Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deksawyer Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 [quote name='Slaphead' post='894213' date='Jul 13 2010, 10:00 PM']HI All Thanks for your help,I will spend th money :-) Alan[/quote] Before you do, try one of these; Best £100 I ever spent. D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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