Yup. It provides a nice clean boost to use with passive pickups with lower output plus studio caliber compression which when playing live is almost always a must.
Nope, I’m just playing around at the house.
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As always, Ovnilab is an amazing resource for compressor selection.
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amazing how useful this site continues to be even thought he stopped doing it years ago. just so people know, they won’t find the latest pedals there because of this.
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I have one similar to this-I am still not really sure what these setting actually affect
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start at 2:50. so on yours you have threshold, a general compression ratio knob, and make up gain (because compression can lower your volume somewhat, use this to dial back in the lost volume if that is happening).
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Compression sets the compression ratio. Essentially how much “squeeze” of the signal you’ll get. You’ll want a smooth attack rather than an abrupt one so a setting of anywhere from 2:1 to 4:1 seems to work best for bass.
Threshold controls where compression begins based on the signal it receives. You set it in accordance with the bass you’re playing and your playing style. Typically you’ll want it to compress only the peaks of the signal where you’re playing the loudest and the hardest.
Gain is simply the pedals output control used to make up for the loss of volume when a signal is compressed or using it with no compression at all it acts like a clean boost for the signal. In that way it can also be used to drive an overdrive or distortion pedal harder.
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