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Digitech Bass Squeeze: Don't bother. First, the signal has a noise gate on it which cannot be disengaged, and it sucks. It chops on and off, and sounds like someone spitting a hair off their tongue, or turning a faucet on and off randomly. If you choose notably different high and low band settings, the mids and the x-over point sound artificial and crappy. The compression amount controls are not intuitive and they don't operate like other compressors. At all higher settings the noise level is insanely bad. On the plus side, at light comp settings there is no rolloff of the highs or lows, the noise is tolerable, and the compression works well enough. If you set both High and Low bands to about 10:00, it actually sounds fairly punchy. But I would not even recommend it to somebody on a tight budget, when you can get an LMB-3 for the same price any day.
 

 
 
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