PSA: My Big Mistake! : "Compressors don't make a difference"

MackieFX

Experienced
I took up bass a few months back and as some of you will note spent a lot of time posting here about dialling in tones. I eventually got something I was pretty happy with using both AxeIII and pedals.

I had always used a compressor with my patches, but thinking they didn't make any difference because "well its just compression lol" I put the studio FF compressor on and just forgot about it.

Recently, Ive been trying to refine tones and kept coming across mentions of this legendary FET compressor. I remembered the axe3 has one of these. I looked at it before and dismissed it for the most stupid reason which was:
-- LOL, this one doesn't even have a cool graph - it must be shit!

Well anyway, yesterday I was messing around and swapped to the FET model and HOLY F&^%$ING BALLS?!!?!?!??!

It's like all of a sudden I got punched in the face with tightness and bright clear tone in the low end that Ive been dreaming of. I actually cant believe that something I thought had zero effect on tone shaping made such an awesome difference.
 
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