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Just bought Dan's re-cased TE head. An absolute pleasure to deal with and shipping was extremely speedy. He even knocked a fiver as he forgot to pop the kettle lead in with the packaging! Even though you probably already know after reading through the rest of this thread but you need not have any doubt at all when dealing with Dan.

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1493664977' post='3289852'] I completely get that a sound engineer will compress signals for studio recordings and this will be an automatic part of his recording process. But playing live? [/quote] Speaking as both a live and studio engineer, if I was limited to compressing one instrument and one instrument only - it would be the bass. Unless you're playing as part of a classical ensemble or jazz quartet where dynamic range is of the upmost importance then compression will be used across the board anyway. Speaking as a bass player, it just tightens up all the little nuances and makes everything a lot more even and I don't think I'd ever be in a situation where I wouldn't be compressing my bass, live or in the studio. Either way - whether you've compressed your bass or not on stage I can guarantee that 99% of the time the live engineer is squeezing the life out of the bass through the PA, it really depend on your personal taste and whether you like the sound of your own bass compressed on stage. Out at FOH it's not necessarily a question of whether the audience would know whether the bass is compressed or not, almost everyone standing there wouldn't be able to tell the difference let alone really care about it. But they will notice a big farty uncompressed bass signal coming through the PA, whacking them across the chops and otherwise not playing nicely with their ear drums.