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It has limited metering, which renders it pretty useless to me

Still people on here not getting compression. My advice, find a local studio thar does sound engineering courses and go to one. You will learn a lot more than arguing on here. Simple answer, bassists know jack about compression, it's definitely sound engineer territory. Learn to be a sound engineer so you can make yourself sound better as bassist in the context of a band.

All round functionality snd sound:- Becos Stella Empress Bass Comp Non compressor nerds:- Spectracomp

Wow, didn't know that! Fascinating

Apparently so, I'll have a play, ta!

I would add that the behringer p16 is excellent

Or this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.davidgiga1993.mixingstation

XR18 handles a 7 piece funk band admirably. Used a Spundcraft ui24R the other day, nice kit, not as good an interface as the Behringer IMO. Seriously looked into an x32 rack plus 8 channel stage box. Shame there's no native android tablet app for it.

Lovely squashy thing, I'd bang on about metetring but that would be frankly churlish....

Oh it's a beast. Surprisingly easy to get great compression results from as it goes. Absolutely brilliant pedal

I really like the sennheisers as an option on shures. Always got excellent results from them on a variety of voices. Built like soviet agricultural machinery, they just keep on going forever in my experience.

Becos Twain is the most full featured compressor I've found for complex routing options

Becos Twain is the most full featured compressor I've found for complex routing options

Muktiband parallel compression chap If you didn't know you wouldn't think it was even on, until you turn it off in the mix. Use it to control the transients and also add some thump. It's subtle, and not so subtle, depending on what I'm playing at the time. Best of all worlds really

Did live sound to help a friend out. First time in a decade doing live sound for someone other than my band! Desk was a soundcraft ui24r, perfectly nice bit of kit, not a brilliant ui but ok. Never used one before, so a bit in at the deep end. I thought he was going to bring his Midas Pro 1 though, bah humbug! Band is a Stones tribute band so drums, 2 guitars, bass, vocal, bvs. Sound checked in 30 minutes. Had a blast. Apparently best on stage sound they've had, which is nice. Oh and the punters reckoned it was the best band with the best sound they've had in the venue ever. Pretty chuffed really, guess I've still got it then 🙂

Roscoe Century Standard 5 string. I have two though, a fretted and a fretless. The fretted has bartolini soap bar pups, the fretless Bart j pups, so there are more sonic differences than the obvious. Neither is #1, but unless it's a slapped bass part I now prefer the fretless, just don't tell the fretted one I said that!

Update the zoom's software You can rhe set recording levels less than 1, 0.1 to 0.9 I've successfully recorded my bands drums with an h4n fir years, I use a pair of condensers in the room as well. The results are excellent

Lalo Schifrin's soundtracks were a huge part of the reason I put a band together to play what we call Cinematic Funk. Ten years ago. Which has gone by ridiculously quickly....

So I didn't get jungle either, and I did dig electronica at that time. The album I would suggest anyone listen to in full to at least get an intro into how good jungle can be is T-Power's Self Evident Truth of an Intuitive Mind. It's like prog jungle, and absolutely amazing

Anyone really interested is a greater understanding of up to date audio engineering would do worse than check-out Dan Worrell on YouTube. https://youtube.com/c/DanWorrall

You can mix and master now to far higher fidelity than anything produced in the 70s and 80s. On a laptop. All on board. No studio. You can't track for stinky poo without a good room though. There were great rooms in the 70s and 80s. There still are, but they cost a huge amount of cash because there are even less of them. Vinyl cannot reproduce bass as accurately as digital, so that is not the issue. The consensus of quality has changed vastly over time. The loudness wars on cd ruined 2 decades of cd quality masters in a never ending spiral of average volume over everything crystal meth style addiction. Streaming has actually addressed this more than anything else due to all the algorithms these sites have generated to figure out equivalent playback output volumes across masters from all eras as close as possible. But bit depth is compromised and they are lossy compression formats normally which tends to affect the loudest masters the most adversely by nature of data compression mechanisms. Its super important to understand the difference between data and audio and audio data compression before trying to understand what might be adversely affecting your playback in a given instance. Mastering engineers now work on gaming those Streaming algorithms to their advantage. And so it goes on....

Have a look at a Becos Stella too. Up there with the Cali76 imo

If you sidechain filter you might find you can get a sound that works for you with somewhat faster attack times. For an always on compressor I like anything from 30 to 70ms attack time and a short release too.

I'm really sorry chaps, I am completely snowed for the foreseeable doing house renovations that are becoming ever more epic.