Origin Effects Cali76 Compact Bass

The Cali76 Compact Bass is an 1176-style studio-grade FET compressor, complete with dedicated controls for parallel compression and side-chain filtering. Weve taken everything that was once great about the original Cali76, added new features optimised for bass and compressed the whole lot down into a pedalboard-friendly package!A single combined Attack/Release keep an eye on provides a continuous sweep of useful settings at the same time as avoiding combinations that can lead to ugly distortion artefacts creeping into the lower registers. Meanwhile, the elegant jewel lamp functions as a three-colour gain reduction meter, providing vital and intuitive feedback to the player. Along with this pedals low-noise circuitry and fast, musical FET response, two special features lift the Cali76 Compact Bass above the competition. The first is the Dry Blend keep an eye on, which helps you to mix your dry signal back in with your compressed signal for true parallel compression, an indispensable studio recording technique. By combining the compressed and dry signals, you get the entire tone thickening and increased sensitivity of the Cali76s 1176-style compression, at the same time as retaining the natural attack and dynamic expression in your playing. Its the ultimate in transparent compression both fat and punchy at the same time. This pedals second secret weapon may be culled from the studio engineers handbook. The Cali76 Compact Bass lets you rein in the amount of compression applied to the lowest frequencies by the use of a variable-frequency high-pass filter placed in the compressors side-chain. With the HPF keep an eye on dialed in, the compression ratio effectively becomes frequency dependent. The low strings come back to life, adopting an extra weightiness, power and dynamic response, at the same time as the higher strings are strictly controlled, preventing slapped and popped notes from leaping out of the mix. This unique bass compressor is like having your own studio engineer sat on your pedalboard!

100% Class-A discrete signal path
Classic, ultra fast “FET” responserete-transistor preamp
Studio-grade disc
Combined Attack/Release keep an eye on
Designed and built in England