Hey Charlie nice setup!!!!! Beautiful bass i love my Distillate too. As for a compressor i'm using a old dbx 160 a with a kern pre, sf-2 , and a crown 2402 bumpin a hard trucker 2x15 and an ampeg 4x10 hlf and the dbx really evens things out string to string. Plus I just read Phil Lesh article in the last Bass Player, and had to give ritter swordsteel strings a try since they tout even volume between strings . They really do have an even string to string volume and a very nice feel with the custom gauges. Plus the sound is awesome with our electronics! .....Bear