Compressor Pedals On Bass, a Short Guide |

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‪@patrickhunter‬ gives you a short guide to compressor pedals on bass!
Have you ever used compression on bass? If so, what's your favourite Pedal or Setting? Let us know in the comments!
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@sagittated Жыл бұрын

Compression is a great alternative to learning how to play evenly, much as autotune is a great alternative to learning how to sing in tune. Perfect for when you want to completely eliminate the human element from your recordings. Snap everything to the grid, do every track in one take, and sound just like everything else!

@Ten80pete Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna put my two cents in here. As someone who has known what compression does to the signal for a while, but never noticed a meaningful difference (since my version of a compressor was just... playing evenly when it was called for, dynamically when I could). The idea of a compressor only "peaked" (yes, thank you, piqued... intentional) my interest once I realized that some of the more rock/pop country guitarists used one to achieve that "splatty" tone of the chicken picking variety. I always liked that sound, so I got a cheap compressor. If I can give you one piece of advice here, pay for a Dynacomp, Keeley, or Ego. Something good. You'll have more control, and best of all, you'll actually be able to hear what it's doing to the signal.

@Hugh_Manitee

I like the sound where you still have very low end and brilliant highs, but balanced. Like the sound of new strings. They sound so metallic. I call it a wirey sound.

@adhLIGHTS Жыл бұрын

Yeah, i'm constantly waiting to play with or hear compression and actually appreciate it. I'm still curious, i know people who love it, but I've yet to simply like the way that it sounds.

@blankvrs

I came for the info on bass compressors but stayed for the shirt. ;)

@philosophicallyspeaking6463

As an alternative, you could practice and develop a more even technique. In fact you 'should' practice 'without' compression to win advantage of all the technical facility it will encourage, and resort to compression, if at all, only in the studio. Of course, that makes 'your' compressed signal inorganic and lifeless like every other track on the session. Who cares if one note 'sticks' its head up a little from the others? No one who cares about 'music' will make an accounting of it, because they are 'focused' on the musical forest rather than the instrumental trees.

@xxczerxx

I feel like people saying Compression "isn't sexy" and "underrated" is overstated at this point.

@raphaelgierscher1290 Жыл бұрын

I use the builtin compressor "thrust" from the tc Electronics BQ500. Because you can't do anything wrong when you are unexperienced in configuring a compressor. It has only one poti :)

@AzTheSpaz Жыл бұрын

So, good for someone who flips between fingers and pick all the time so I don’t have to play with settings all the time?

@stevengonz Жыл бұрын

I play with an EHX tone corset at the front of my chain. Don’t see too many people talking about it but it works great for bass!

@TheBaller67 Жыл бұрын

Always on, JHS Whitey Tighty! It is compressor pedal simplicity, with the all important BLEND control!

@TheLithGH

Thanks for the tutorial! Would be cool to show samples clips with and without compression.

@letsleepingdogslie2492 Жыл бұрын

Like it! Straight to the point and great playing and sampling! Just the facts man!

@fjammusic

Thanks Bro.. I'm going back too the basics on my pedalboard💯👍🏾🙏

@joermnyc Жыл бұрын

I had an extra Barber Tone Press, having the “blend” control works great, I might get a more “bass” compressor, but there’s a lot of “guitar” pedals that have enough frequency headroom to work with bass without issues, though any pedal that lets you mix/blend in the original signal is better.

@lewisyouknow

I use an mxr dyna comp for my bass, and it's my most important pedal now. I did use a boss cs3, which was fine, I tried an mxr bass compressor but couldn't get on with it at all, honestly didn't seem to change anything. So went back to the dyna comp