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I'm only wading through this topic in the hopes of learning about compression. I would therefore like to thank those who have posted calmly and rationally and shared their knowledge. As for the OP, I can't tell you if an audience would notice or not but I can share one little tale from my years of bass playing. Packed house, lively gig band steaming along nicely. Suddenly a thingy came adrift inside my amp (my tech savvy mate fixed it and glued it in place, been fine ever since) the immediately apparent effect of the loose thingy was to reduce my previously warm, rounded yet punchy and dynamic bass sound to a terrible quacking fart such as a giant duck might produce were it to have imbibed with undue vigour of Mr Perrets Traditional Stout. The actual volume remained reasonably consistent but the tortured distorted sound was like the world's worst fuzz box put through broken speakers. I have never produced a more dreadful noise on stage either before or since. Now, the moral of the story is this. I soldiered on, ashen faced through the final numbers of the set, the only saving grace being that there wasn't long left to play. When we finished and a happy appreciative audience was congratulating us no one knew why I was apologising for the bass sound. I mean no one. Not the paying public, not my mate who had a special interest in the rhythm section and was stood near my side of the room, and yes, you've guessed it, not one member of my band noticed anything amiss. So polling us based on what an audience does or doesn't notice, seems to me a little unlikely to achieve much. Still, I shall be pressing the compressor button on my amp in future so this thread has been useful, if a little painful at times. There'senough anger in the world. We could try meeting it with love maybe. Just a thought.

Think yourself lucky it wasn't the Thunderbird model

I'll get your coat

Nice one! Genius.

Beautiful

I did this recently with a strap button. Used a cocktail stick the pointy end made insertion simple! Great hack thank you.

Thanks guys!

Thanks for the reply. It's for switching guitars. Two instruments one amp

For instance anyone know if this is any good? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Morley-Pedals-ADAPTER-Universal-Effect/dp/B003AIM6GK/ref=sr_1_23?s=musical-instruments&ie=UTF8&qid=1521215290&sr=1-23&keywords=aby+pedal#customerReviews

Any advice please. Ideally something with level controls for each output. And a good one rather than cheap and cheerful. Thanks.

Genius genius genius. We're on a roll folks!

Genius! Just what I'm looking for.

Hey that's great. Why don't we expand this into a top tips and hacks thread for folk who enjoy finding curious solutions to bass related problems? Edited title and OP to reflect this. Yet another astounding idea. I'd better be careful my foot doesn't fall off.

It's nice to be conversing with a person of taste and exceptional insight. Furthermore with a person who appreciates the great ideas which have shaped our times. Like the electric light bulb, penicillin and my over the door cable tidy.

Look, tidy is a relative concept. My cables dangling from the door like that are 200% tidier than lying in a feckin' great tangled heap on the floor. Of course I now have nowhere to hang my clothes.

Ha ha - I've amazed, confounded and baffled you with my Einstein like inventiveness