Quote Originally Posted by Muzza View Post
Hey Doc, maybe you're the man that can help me.

I've recently gone back to playing bass (where I belong - I love it) and at band practice tonight, just for the hell of it, I plugged into my Diamond compressor (CPR-1) that I bought while I was in my rhythm guitar mode, and it blew me away.

Much better than the compressor I've sworn by for years. But this isn't a bass compressor. They're GOOD for bass, but Diamond put out a variation specifically for bass, the BCP-1 which is getting rave reviews. If this one sounds this good, then the bass version must be sensational.

My question is, would it be possible to mod the standard Diamond compressor and turn it into something more like the bass version? I don't really want to fork out for a new one, they're around the $350 mark.

Any ideas?

I reckon it's possible that it is do-able, ie, to mod it to be usable for bass, they may have used the same circuit for both versions but changed some component values in the bass version, what I would do is see if I could find schematics for both versions on the internet, print them out and have a good study of them to see what the differences are.