Am I misunderstanding how my compressor is supposed to work?

[Paul]

lol this thread is spot on but it was actually a post from Itsratso I was referring too:

What's the deal with effects and pedals? (Also: sound in general)

I’ve sort of gone round with compression pedals lately. I took the advice of ovnilab and bought the mxr bass compressor. I realized pretty quickly that it wasn’t going to work for me. I liked the led meter and the controls. but i found (and ovni mentioned) that I had to have a HUGE amount of input in order for it to respond. so it’s gone. didn’t really know what to replace it with, I really wanted the cali76 but it’s $350 bux (gulp). for some reason I always ignored this: [20210403_214113] bu…