Favourite Compressor Setting (Poll)

[lightninz]

Hi all,

First and foremost, Disclaimer: I want to assure you that this is not a scam or an attempt to collect your data for marketing purposes. It's simply a data collection initiative and i will post the data here afterwards for all to see. Furthermore, all data are anonymous.

I'm really interested in learning about your favorite settings for fingerpicking, picking, and slapping techniques. Surprisingly, I haven't come across any compiled information on this topic, so I decided to create a short survey to gather your insights. It will only take less than 5 minutes of your time, and I would greatly appreciate your participation.

Here's the link to the survey: Bass Compression Favourite Setting

In the survey, I have included questions about threshold, attack, sustain, and ratio settings. Feel free to also leave any additional comments, parameters or information in the comments section.

Thank you all in advance for your valuable inputs. Your contributions will help create a comprehensive resource that we can all benefit from.

 

[Zbysek]

My favourite compressor setting is "ON"...

 

[Fuzzbass]

Complications for me: my fingerstyle technique varies depending on the song I'm playing, and I also use different compressor techniques: end result is gentle smoothing, but sometimes I get there via gentle settings, while other times I use the parallel compression technique of strong compression with lots of dry signal blended in to remove squash.

That said, I tried to explain that in your comments sections. Interesting survey, good luck!

 

[Bob_Ross]

Captain Pedantic would like to point out that the survey confusingly associates "Heavy" compression with a "High" Threshold setting and "Light" compression with a "Low" Threshold setting...when in fact it's exactly the opposite: The lower the Threshold the more heavily compressed the signal will be, and vice-versa.

 

[lightninz]

understand that, thank you for your inputs into the survey, ill use whatever you write as part of the results, they were very interesting.

Complications for me: my fingerstyle technique varies depending on the song I'm playing, and I also use different compressor techniques: end result is gentle smoothing, but sometimes I get there via gentle settings, while other times I use the parallel compression technique of strong compression with lots of dry signal blended in to remove squash.

That said, I tried to explain that in your comments sections. Interesting survey, good luck!

 

[lightninz]

Captain Pedantic would like to point out that the survey confusingly associates "Heavy" compression with a "High" Threshold setting and "Light" compression with a "Low" Threshold setting...when in fact it's exactly the opposite: The lower the Threshold the more heavily compressed the signal will be, and vice-versa.

yeah, you are right, because there were different groups of people that uses different terms, some use high or low setting which i have put into the survey, meaning if it is very squashed or barely squashed. some uses the threshold level which you mentioned, which is Db levels, the low the levels the more squashed it is.