boss cs-3 anyone?

The Ethanator · #1 02-10-2009, 09:11 PM

i stumbled across these last week, and they seem to get fairly decent reviews. id like to get a compressor. not one that squashes your tone down to nothing, just something i can use to chop off the spikes a little bit, maybe get rid of some of the spiking and clipping that occurs with my bass synth wah (setting one, range/sens cranked left, control cranked right, tone knob on my bass cranked, play hard and see what i mean). anybody ever tried one of these, or could reccomend any other decent (but cheap and subtle) compressors?

slyjoe · #2 02-10-2009, 09:22 PM

Read bongo's reviews on compressors.

For the Boss CS, try the Humphrey Modded one.

http://www.ovnilab.com/index.shtml

Jared Lash · #3 02-10-2009, 09:30 PM

I've tried both the modded and unmodded versions and I agree with bongo's assessment. The stock CS-3 was pretty useless to me.

But the modded version was great. Stopped huge spikes, was good for transitions from fingerstyle to slap and was fairly low noise. It can get a high level of squash, but I didn't like the character of the squash at those extreme settings.

If I wasn't using so much sub-bass type sounds these days I'd seriously consider picking one up.

jumbo_steelie · #4 02-10-2009, 09:59 PM

I haven't tried a CS3, but I picked up a CS2 and its not too bad. I don't know enough about compression, but I needed something to tighten up the lows. I know this sounds funny coming from a bass player, but my basement's unfinished, so when I hit any note below an A, the ductwork rattles like crazy!!! I had two choices; insulate and finish the basement, or compress some of the lows out. I'm happy, the wife isn't.

cybersnyder · #5 02-11-2009, 07:37 AM

I had a CMATmods.com mod done to my CS-3 and I wish I would have just paid a few bucks more and bought the EBS compressor.

KromaatiKlauun · #6 02-11-2009, 05:00 PM

I do like the stock CS-3, I use it for evening my pick attack, maybe for something more complicated you'll need to check other stuff

shaolinwhat · #7 02-11-2009, 05:02 PM

im not really sure why but ive been really itching to get one

GianGian · #8 02-11-2009, 05:06 PM

I use the stock one...it changes your tone a lot, at least on the setting I use, but it doesn't suck too much low end...I only noticed some very small sucking on the low E, F, F# and G...my amplifier doesn't play these notes as loud as the other ones anyway, so no big deal and I am talking about a very small difference...now, if you use 5 strings it will be worthless I guess.

PF all-star · #9 02-11-2009, 05:21 PM

I originally got my CS-3 to help with live sound. Our sound guys at church are not really "trained" engineers by any means. I play a mid-scooped eq and they would shave off volume on my channel when I would hit something on my E string. It has definitely helped with balancing the levels but I do get a bit of a squashed sound. Only used it two weeks now, so still have more to learn.