Greetings Forum!
Can anyone recomend me a nice compressor to run over my Voyager in a live situation??
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
Nick. 
fmr really nice compressor or rnc as its known for short. amazing for the money and a secret weapon of a few high end studios.
A bit confused about why youād want to use a compressor with the voyager. You can control all aspects of the sustain from the knobs, and if the dynamic range is too wide you can change the velocity sensitivity or amount to the envelopes.
Are you just looking for classic coloration or trying to artificially squish the signal?
In any case, the Electro-Harmonix Black Finger tube compressor is very tasty, and Demeter also makes a small, simple compressor similar to (but superior to) the old MXR dynacomp. Higher quality look to the Distressor, Summit half rack tube compressor, or Universal Audiosā new classic boxes.
I always compress my voyager with an amek cib compressor which is very transparent but keeps any nasty spikes under control.It helps the voyager sit nice in the mix.Its essential to my ears for great bass sounds in particular as clever compression can help the groove of the track as a whole when used carefully on each instrument in the mix.
Greetings, Thanks for all your input. Very helpfull
As for why I want to use one, itās basicly a safety net. The voyager tends to jump out occasionally as I get carried away in tweaking it and Iām just after something to keep that in check without degrading the sound too much.
Has anyone had any experience with the Joe Meek MC2?? Itās on special at my local store and thats what they recomended..
Again, thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Nick
joe meek stuff is average. there is no better bang for the buck compressor than the RNC or a used dbx 160x, xt , or a .
it depends on how much you want to spend, I went the inexpensive used route with an ART PAC and it works great for my needs when playing live. I use it for both my Hofner bass and Moogs and the damn thing is just so small and easy to cart around together with my Vox Tonelab and out to the main bd.
Manley Vari-Mu.
Just a big necro bump hereā¦
I had a gig recently and the house PA was decidedly average. No compressors on the main stacks!
Using extreme resonance/FM on the Voyager or Sherman Filterbank didnāt come across on well on the crappy speakers. I couldnāt hear anything but distortion on the abused monitors. Not to mention any Taurus III I played just sounded like clicks on the foldbackā¦
Compression seems like the most controversial topic in all of sound engineering. Youāll get fifty people telling you this comp is great and another fifty saying otherwise. Most of the discussion I have read about deals with compressing drums.
Why would anybody want to compress something like the Voyager, whose sole purpose is to produce sounds with excellent dynamic range? Large, resonant peaks, while sounding really cool, make your signal very hard to tame.
I may have answered my own question already, but is it RMS or Peak compression that I want?
Even though they are āboringā units, I am leaning towards a dbx box, just because they are fairly well known and have stereo or quad comps inside. Something like a 166XL or 1046.
Do you really need attack and release controls if youāre not trying to āshapeā the sound? I figure with something like a synth, you can control the ADSR anyway.
Anybody use the FMR Audio RNC? Seems mighty cheap and pretty good, however dual mono channelling isnāt possible.
Any thoughts appreciated! 
I realise goldphinga has already offered his advice, to someone from my country too! But this was over four years ago and things may now be different 