It is WAY different then the CS-2, it is totally redesigned, or newly designed, it is a different pedal by far.
And Yeah, I love it, got it in a great trade, but I still didn’t replace my ALWAYS ON compressor either, I just love it when I really wanna POP
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There’s a lot of videos on YouTube with worship service bassists and their setups, for some reason. I was just watching one and it made another good point for wanting compression. The guy has compression last in his effects chain, with all the other pedals at unity gain. He said it made things much easier for his front of house guy to get an even compressed signal as opposed to having to mix a signal that wildly fluctuates, especially when another effect like distortion is kicked in. So the front of house guy can make the bass sound better overall. Makes sense.
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Just when I thought I had myself settled in with my MXR DynaComp, along comes that giant purveyor of GAS, Amazon; sending me an email enticing me to buy this “update of the legendary Dyna Comp”. From what I can see, it has a 3rd knob for “Attack Level”.
Would it be worth me taking a hit on reselling my DynaComp and switching to this one?
Thoughts?
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Totally your choice. If you’re happy with your current one, then no. If you will be lying wide awake at 3 am burning with curiosity then yes (and congrats you’re a gear flipper).
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my advice @PamPurrs : stop here for a time. take your time to try to deal with your gear.
you can do a lot with what you already have. which is very probably better to what I have actually. don’t buy, just play.
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Thank you @Terb. Wise words from a wise man.
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Yes, I agree with @terb, and think it is good to give your stuff a good trial prior to making decisions to switch.
However, if the 3rd nob is ATTACK, I, personally, this is me talking, not anybody else, only me (are we clear on that yet), I would want the attack on a compressor. It lets you set when the compression starts, immediately, or do you give it some milliseconds to kick in. If you have it start right away, it can sound dull, not really any life (of course, this depends on the other settings for compression, etc…).
On my compressors, I like to leave this kind of in the middle, not to long, not to short (of course, that could be the factory setting for a peddle, with no attack nob???) to give it a little life before it clips the waves to even the signal.
Of course, it you want to have an attack control, then it is nice to have a release control as well, so you can set how long it lasts before it stops compressing beyond the threshold,
aye aye aye aye
Yeah, you better play with what you got. 
Or 
You shouldn’t
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Yeah, more or less agree. The attack knob is important if you change between styles like picking, slapping, and fingerstyle. So for me, important. For Pam, probably not so much.
@terb basically nailed it. Play with this and learn what a compressor does and see how you do before spending more money you might not need.
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I’ve also followed @T_dub in what he has done by buying a couple of cheap pedals and playing around with them. Everyone will have different aims too. I’m loving the $40 aud distortion pedal I got new without a box but a lot of folks don’t like distortion.
As much as the Zoom is a great piece of equipment I’m also finding individual pedals to be more fun ?
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Yeah, having tactile little things to play with is always fun.
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They are. I mean you can tweak settings in zoom but it’s far more difficult. Also scrolling through pages of effects is somewhat annoying.
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I feel as though my Zoom (or any multi-effects processor) was a good gateway drug to pedals, but now that I am in actual pedal mode, I am much happier and my sound will improve tremendously.
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so true. It is almost NECESSARY to buy a ZOOM first, and weather you have it for a week or a year before getting into pedals, it is a necessary stepping stone. Really you have Zoom phases, and you can get thru them quickly, in a few hours to slowly, weeks to years.
12 steps of Zoom effects processors
1 - Open box - plug in
2 - test patches
3 - find a couple you like and play thru them
4 - note the ones you don’t like
5 - delete patch #39
6 - go into edit mode and build a few patches
7 - go into stomp mode and test out single pedals
8 - purchase 1 pedal like 1 in the Zoom to see the difference
9 - like that pedal better
10 - run that pedal thru the zoom in stomp mode with another pedal
11 - get another pedal - patch 2 together
12 - dive down the rabbit hole
Some still patch the zoom on their pedalboard for a while (I am one of these) others sell them immediately, but everybody understands the value that Zoom has brought to their life and will continue to recommend them to new players.
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The Zooms I owned were (and still are) easily the best money I have ever spent on gear.
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That’s how I felt about my Rumble LT25 bass amp with the selection of built in virtual pedals. Tried them, enjoyed tinkering with settings but soon wanted real pedals. Only had the LT25 a short while.
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But I bet you learned a lot about the types of effects, what they do, and how to combine them for certain sounds.
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Absolutely, as mentioned elsewhere I didn’t regret getting it at all, and it did its job of turning me to the darkside of pedal mania 
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he he he 
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