Fender Bassman Compressor Pedal

£94.99

This is a New Fender Bassman Compressor Pedal from Fender is in our Compressor Pedals category on Just Pedals. Read More below.

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Bassman® pedals have all your basses covered. Drawing inspiration from the original tube amp line that laid way for Fender’s sub-sonic signal processing, the Bassman pedal line hosts a collection of meticulously crafted analog and digital circuits all curated from the ground up for bass-centric tonal expansion.

A no fuss professional compressor tailored specifically for bass instruments, the Bassman Compressor focuses on ease-of-use and great tone. Beneath its simple control set, this compact pedal employs smooth RMS compression – the same compression circuitry used in the most prominent studio rack compressors. The ratio and release switches each offer two meticulously dialed in presets to coax the most out of your bass with minimum stress, while the rest of your compression settings are handled using the straightforward level and compression controls. Use the blend control to inject fullness and dynamics from your clean signal back into the mix for the perfect balance of compression and feel.

FEATURES

  • Studio style RMS compression meets simple UI in a pedal board friendly form factor
  • Select between two dialed in ratio settings for light compression or smooth limiting
  • Internal attack and release controls offer further fine-tuning to suit your playing
  • Soft-touch relay true bypass with auto bypass when no power is present
  • Side mounted pad switch to suit active basses
  • Top mounted jacks and road-ready aluminum enclosure

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Brand

Fender

Fender’s effects line draws on the company’s Southern California instrument-and-amplifier history. The all-original pedal range Fender introduced in the late 2010s was designed in Southern California with input from gigging and studio musicians. JustPedals listings include The Bends compressor, Marine Layer reverb, Pugilist distortion, Tre-Verb and Smolder Acoustic Overdrive. That range connects familiar Fender amplifier sounds with dedicated stompboxes, while also covering bass and acoustic applications. The brand name does not indicate where every model was manufactured; compare each pedal’s controls, routing and model-specific specifications.

Category

Compressor Pedals

Compression reduces the difference between louder and quieter parts of the signal. It can restrain peaks, lift decaying notes and make picking feel more even, but strong settings also change the attack and add audible sustain or pumping. Threshold, ratio, attack, release and blend determine when gain reduction begins, how firmly it acts and how much natural transient detail remains.

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Analogue

The signal is shaped by continuously varying electronic circuitry rather than being converted into a digital effect algorithm. Component choice, operating voltage and circuit tolerances influence headroom, noise, clipping texture and the small variations in response between designs.

Bass

Voiced or equipped to retain low-frequency fundamentals and the higher headroom of a bass signal. Clean blends, crossovers and bass-specific filter ranges can preserve weight and articulation while the effected portion adds harmonics, movement or ambience.

Digital

Converts the signal or control process into numerical data for algorithmic processing. Digital designs can provide precise timing, long memory, complex routing and repeatable presets; sample rate, conversion, internal resolution and latency influence fidelity and response.

Presets

Stores complete groups of parameter values for later recall. The number of locations, switching time, spillover behaviour and whether presets include routing, expression and MIDI assignments determine how completely one sound can change into another.