CALI76 COMPACT BASS
The Cali76 Compact Bass is an 1176-style studio-grade FET compressor,
complete with dedicated controls for parallel compression and sidechain filtering.
We’ve taken everything that was great about the original Cali76, added new
features optimised for bass and compressed the whole lot down into a
pedalboard-friendly package!
A single combined Attack/Release control provides a continuous sweep of useful
settings while avoiding combinations that can result in ugly distortion artefacts
creeping into the lower registers. Meanwhile, the elegant jewel lamp functions as
a three-colour gain reduction meter, providing vital and intuitive feedback to the
player.
In addition to this pedal’s low-noise circuitry and fast, musical FET response,
two special features lift the Cali76 Compact Bass above the competition.
The first is the Dry Blend control, which lets you mix your dry signal back in
with your compressed signal for true parallel compression, an indispensable
studio recording technique. By combining the compressed and dry signals, you
get all of the tone thickening and increased sensitivity of the Cali76’s 1176-style
compression, while retaining the natural attack and dynamic expression in your
playing. It’s the ultimate in transparent compression – both fat and punchy at
the same time.
This pedal’s second secret weapon is also culled from the studio engineer’s
handbook. The Cali76 Compact Bass allows you to rein in the amount of
compression applied to the lowest frequencies via a variable-frequency high-pass
filter placed in the compressor's sidechain. With the HPF control dialled in, the
compression ratio effectively becomes frequency dependant. The low strings
come back to life, adopting an extra weightiness, power and dynamic response,
while the higher strings are strictly controlled, preventing slapped and popped
notes from leaping out of the mix. This unique bass compressor is like having
your own studio engineer sat on your pedalboard!
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