This pedal is a very good compressor/limiter which does not color or enhance your sound and does not produce unwanted noise UNLESS you use the enhance feature knob which is unusable since if anywhere above 10 Oclock it produces too much hiss. I keep it turned off or almost off. What this pedal does for me is it takes my bass and allows me to slap it as hard as I can without getting any unwanted harsh sounds. It smooths out my tone is and makes me sound like a better player with a better bass. While disenaged it's not true bypass, but is transparent. I have no reason not to keep it on and it's the only pedal I continually use for my bass.

For guitar I have an arsenal of pedals.

For bass it also works better than the RNC (which is great for everything else, except bass), the CE-3, which is designed for guitar unless you have it Modded, the j-station bass/limiter and every software compressor/limiter I have tried.

If you want to get rid of your Bass's harsh tones buy a $1000 on a good made in America J-Bass and have it professionally set up or use this pedal.

EDIT:

I tried this on an active bass and it was not effective. It produced too much hiss. Still use it for J and P basses.
This pedal is a very good compressor/limiter which does not color or enhance your sound and does not produce unwanted noise UNLESS you use the enhance feature knob which is unusable since if anywhere above 10 Oclock it produces too much hiss. I keep it turned off or almost off. What this pedal does for me is it takes my bass and allows me to slap it as hard as I can without getting any unwanted harsh sounds. It smooths out my tone is and makes me sound like a better player with a better bass. While disenaged it's not true bypass, but is transparent. I have no reason not to keep it on and it's the only pedal I continually use for my bass. For guitar I have an arsenal of pedals. For bass it also works better than the RNC (which is great for everything else, except bass), the CE-3, which is designed for guitar unless you have it Modded, the j-station bass/limiter and every software compressor/limiter I have tried. If you want to get rid of your Bass's harsh tones buy a $1000 on a good made in America J-Bass and have it professionally set up or use this pedal. EDIT:

I tried this on an active bass and it was not effective. It produced too much hiss. Still use it for J and P basses.