anyone with a 488 and a compressor??

[Benreturns]

ok ive just spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out how to connect my compressor (behringer composer pro) to my portastudio.

Here's what im doing:

Guitar directly into the channel one mic/line input.

Compressor stuck into the insert point. Input and output both going into insert point one with the help of 2 cabels and a splitter.
The signal just cuts out, nothing comes through my monitors.

Ive heard this is the correct way to do it.

Also ive plugged my guitar into the compressor and the output into track one of the 488 using the multitracks mic input. The noise gate works ok but i cant seem to be able to dissern any notable difference in sound when i play with the attack/delay/threshhold/ratio nobs. ive turned thwm all every which way but it just sounds like my guitar still...

Ive also tried the compressor as an send/return effects loop. No joy.

Any ideas? I want to get recording asap!!!

 

[The Ghost of FM]

The signal just cuts out, nothing comes through my monitors.

If that's the case, try reversing the in and outs on the compressor. Perhaps you wired it back-wards and thus the sound cut out with the comp plugged in.

The compressor is not going to change the sound of the instrument in question all that dramatically also so, I am not quite sure what you are thinking or hoping that the compressor will do to your sound?

It is basically going to level out the volume of the instrument in question if you have adjusted it half decently.

Good luck!

 

[Benreturns]

well...

I want to make my bass pump.

There doesnt seem to be much audiable difference in the settings. I have got it working by the way, using the insert jacks. The output of the compressor is a stereo cable and the input is mono. That seems to have done the trick. The Output and input are stuck into insert 1 via a '2 into one' (splitter) jack.

Its just the behringer manual dont offer any advice on what the threshholds and attack/release etc... actually DO and what to look for. Its alot of technical jargon. No inclination of the sounds i can get out of it.