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

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

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

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.

Very good video 👌🏿👌🏿👊🏿 I use a tc electronic Spectradrive High Quality Bass Preamp and Drive Pedal that has a nice compressor on it. Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿🖤

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

Thanks for the video bro

Compression is used on almost everything in a mix, and usually on the master buss as well to glue everything together. My optimal bass recording setup is to take the (pre-effects) DI, low pass it @ 160Hz, heavily compress it, mix it with the (post effects) amp mic that's been low cut @ 160Hz with moderate compression, then run that mix through yet another stage of light compression.

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

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

Super helpful thanks

Great !!! Thank you!!!

Never had a pedal, but my last rig (Trace Elliot) had twin compressors. It was sweet

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.

Cool video. I've used a dyna, TC spectra drive (has a spectra comp built in), and boss lb-3. Dyna is my fave, but I might try an something optical or pulp n peel if someone wants to trade for my TC.

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?

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.

After I started playing bass in the 90s, I built myself a pretty sick Gallien-Krueger rack mount amp kit. Included was an Alesis 3630 (overrated, but effective). I was sold on compression as essentially a way to SAVE your amp/speakers from destruction. I was trained as a classical and jazz musician, but I also played funk, punk rock, and metal. I ended up getting rid of the rig because I grew incredibly sour with GK after their customer service/repair service basically screwed me out of almost $1000 (that was crazy, reply if you want the full story). BUT, I also had to have one of my Ampeg SVT head's circuits resoldered because I used to play so hard, and probably because I didn't have the rig properly compressed. This is one thing that's confusing me as a 40 year old man: what happened to all the rack compressors? Not only was compression taken care of, but they also included noise gates and dual channels for multi layered compression (studio use only). You'd just connect it to effects loop, and boom, everything is taken care of. And IT WAS ONLY $90!! Everything is an f'ing $200 pedal these days, and you have to buy a separate noise gate, and more pedals if you want studio layered compression. Can someone please explain this to me? Bring back the Rack Mount!

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 :)

My wife got me a Donner compressor for xmas today. Can't wait to play with it. Not really sure how it works, so thanks for the tips.

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!

I'm using the Seymour Duncan Studio Bass compressor pedal. Toggle switch set to the center, attack and compression knobs at 12 o'clock, blend at 1 o'clock and level at almost 3 o'clock.

I have the Seymour Duncan studio bass. Affordable and delivers the goods.

Why didn’t you show the samples with and without compression? 🤷🏻‍♂️

The guy that repairs & modifies Alex Webster's basses told me that in his opinion that the Seymour Duncan Studio Bass compressor is hands down his #1 compressor. I've never tried one myself but I'd like to.

Compression is most useful on bass other than vocals because low frequency notes can get lost easily in a mix. It would be good to hear without the compression then with the compression to hear the difference.

I mostly want one so I can switch between fingerstyle and slap and keep the volume the same.

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.

Watching guitar solos never did anything for me, but watching a bassist go off makes me feel like my first semester at Hogwarts or someone. Magical!! Thanks man!

Maybe the empress pedal sounded best to me

I wonder if I shud get an additional compressor. I’ve got a DBX 160X in a rack for early in my fx chain. Would a stomp box compressor give me a effecty kind of effect where the DBX does a studio quality evening out ?

It would be nice to hear these.on the same bass 2:07. 3:57. 4:44

Only thing missing was a side-by-side comparison

I dislike compression. It always sounds so wrong to me.

Every bass sounds different, pedals too. Same bass across all of these?

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

Getup kids at @4:46

Idk if anyone here know who this is, but I genuinely thought this guy was Northernlion for a second.

Been playing bass for 16 years before I bought one. Used this video to inform my decision. Wasn’t sure but went with a boss BC-1X. Just get one folks, it gave me the sound I’ve been chasing but thought could only be achieved in an LA studio with a crew of professionals.

useless video unless you wanted to hear him show his chops. no content showing difference in compressed and not.

Was this paid for or was it comped? Wait what? Dynamic dynamos

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.

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!

Didn’t Biden just fire you for stealing a bag of woman’s clothes? I didn’t know you played bass, or got to keep the clothes.

Sht... You forgot to get dressed. Now you're sitting in front of the camera in your pajamas.