This is one of the best reviews I have seen on the net, for - well, almost anything. First of all, there's the A/B-ing of wet and dry signals, so you can make out exactly what the pedal does (a little more of this at various points would've been very useful, indeed). Secondly, there's an everything-at-12 o'clock setting that the review starts with, which lets you understand the basic character of the pedal and gives you a very useful baseline against which you can compare other tweaks to the settings. Third, each move off the baseline is one knob at a time (up, and then down), so you get to know exactly what each knob does (I'm sick of those, "Ok, so now let's try pushing this knob up, this one down and this toggle sideways..no, wait, let's turn that one all the way down instead!"). Fourthly, there's this little inset that's showing you the pedal, its settings and its leds, so you know where each knob is and what the compressor is doing and don't have to go, "Uh, which knob did they say they're tweaking? Let me go back a bit!". Fifth, you're hearing bass riffs from the real world of bass playing, meat-and-potatoes-bass-in-a-nice-way, and not 5-string-bass-played-like-a-7-stringed-symphonic-orchestra. And finally, a pair of guys who know what this is all about but make everything very easy to understand. Thanks, Noof & Alec; you guys rock
I ❤ this comp, use it as an always on comp with a Warwick Thumb 5 and a custom Jazz 4 string both with Bartolini pick ups. Running it at about 4:1 and it sounds mighty! Definitely recommend this, even at the lowest compression the bass sounds better 👍🏻
Years ago and still this Comp is worth the money 💰 to get if you can find one!!..Gives the MXR Comps a run fo’ da’ money 💰 too! So easy to use on a gig and supports other FX on pedalboards for sure!..✨🎶🎸🎛👍🏾
Hey guys! Thanks for the review. I have a pedal board with: Tuner > Ampeg preamp > Big Muff > amp. Do you think it's better to set the BC-1X after the preamp to control the initial signal or in the end to control everything together. Thanks in advance! Rock on!
Jeremy Bianco Why is that? I've heard the main purpose of a compressor is so you don't blow up your amp when using a distortion pedal. So wouldn't it make more sense to have it as the last thing before your amp?
@bAaron The idea of running your compressor first gives you the ability to change your signal before it goes into your effects ie run the effects harder or pull them back. Compressors also work best when they are closer to the bass/guitar in the chain, generally coming after a wah or volume pedal. Unless you have your pedals set up wrong you shouldn't be "blowing up amps." If you had it at the end, all the pedals that you set up beforehand might as well have been a waste of time because the compressor will change x amount of signals as the same one instead of separately.
