Afterlife on Bass. Mods?

[irmcdermott]

Finishing up an Afterlife build for a friend for his bass. I've read elsewhere that people have used the flatline on bass with good results. I was slightly underwhelmed by it. Sounds great on guitar, but through my bass the compressor didn't seem to be as responsive. Would this be a simple change to C1? Any thoughts are definitely appreciated. Thanks everyone.

Ian

[midwayfair]

By "not as responsive" do you mean it wasn't doing as much compression, or that you were losing a lot of lows?

If you mean that you were losing frequency response, increasing C1 to ~.047-.056 uF should be sufficient. You'll probably need to change C2 as well, and you may need to add a resistor on the input to prevent the bass from overloading the input stage and distorting.

If you aren't getting as much compression as you'd like, try increasing R7. You'll lose some highs but not much of anything in the range of a bass guitar.

[irmcdermott]

If you aren't getting as much compression as you'd like, try increasing R7. You'll lose some highs but not much of anything in the range of a bass guitar.

that's what I meant. thanks, I'll give that a try.

[icecycle66]

Following this thread.
I'm itching for my own afterlife, I'd like to wait and see how your bass mods come out.

[Briman1974]

How did this all turn out on the bass? Im making one for my guitar and my bass player is looking at me making a bass compressor. Did the mods make it sound good on bass?

[thesameage]

bump. any word? 

[jimilee]

I haven't changed anything, sounds fine to me.

[thesameage]

That's what someone on talkbass said too.

[irmcdermott]

In the end I just stuck with the stock values and it sounded really good for what my friend wanted.

[jimilee]

Sounds good on my pbass too