Daimond Bass Comp Jr

Today Diamond posted in their Instagram (see pic below) that Bass Comp Jr is going to be available soon! They aslo told me so when I was emailing with their support team, since I care about a pedal dimensions. I want to pick up a compressor pedal in the nearest future and thrust me I've read all the thread on talk bass about compressors and from all of them (I mean pedals) I seem to like Earthquaker Devices The Warden, because of it's functionality, but at the same time I really like simplicity of Diamond. And heard complements on both pedals and as far as I remember both are on "Top pick" of Ovnilab guy(Bongo). I don't know what to do.

 

Oh, wow, thank you, this was very helpful! But now I'm even more confused. >_< I don't like that Diamond comp does not doubles the voltage inside like EQD Warden does, I have only one 18v output on my power brick and I'm planning to use it with overdrive pedal, most likely. I heard a lot of good things about Diamond comp when in use with passive Fender style basses (I play Fender PJ bass). I'm sure that I will not be able to get this magical Diamond tone with EQD Warden, but it is capable of much more. The question is do I need a compression or I need do I need a tone enhancement tool like diamond comp, that's the question. I need something to my clean tone to keep it more consistent and more sustainy, when I don't use a drive.

 

Yeah, I heard that about 9v as well. The thing is, I actually like me tone, not sure if I need to make it "better", but I want to make it more consistent, but dont want to squash it, both pedals seems to do the job well.

 

I need it to make my dynamics more even, I want every note to be heard.

 

Yeah, I saw that thread already, I don't know why, but I don't like the compression pedal with blend control, I don't like this idea of blending squashed sound with my clean sound. Empress Compressor is giantic, it is not pedalboard friendly. That's why I saw looking at Earthquaker Devices The Warden, it has all controls that usually studio compressors have and it is still not bigger than your regular Boss pedal. The thing is I think it's cool that you can get this magical tone from diamond comp, on the other hand if I will not like it, I will not be able to adjust it, unlike EQD Warden or Empress, you can get different kind of compression with those.

 

Yeah, I thought so as well. what can you say about using those compressors with overdrive pedal? or is it better to turn off comp when using overdrive?

 

I don't always want an overdrive in my sound. I'm using Sansamp TRI-AC(sound quite similar to BDDI on my settings), it has a drive control, but I use just a slight amount of it, to give it a little bit of a push, but I don't like how the drivier settings sound like, I like it as a preamp and cab sim, this is why I want to get my self an overdrive pedal, but again I will use that for a noticable drive sound, so for a clean sound I want more control over my sound. Another thing is that Fender basses do have a dead spots and strings on some frets sound louder that the others and it's not because I'm hitting harder or something, so hopefully compressor will help with that too, since it evens out the volume.

 

Interesting. What compression pedals do you have? And how to do use them?