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[an1989dy]

hey i am a beginner at all the recording stuff, but heres the situation. I am in a punk/rock band with a bass/guitar/vocals and drums. I have 8 channel behringer mixer, a behringer MDX4600 compressor, limiter, gate, ect. I want to start recording with cakewalk on my pc, but i am having bad luck recording the bass tracks. when i run it out of the direct out it always peaks but is very quiet. could someone pleasee tell me the best way to record bass tracks? the bass is a galien krueger with two cabinets.

[lopie]

roll off the low freq ~80 hz (down) and use compression there are freq charts on the mixing section of this forum

[an1989dy]

thanks but i can not find the charts

[Middleman]

Actually 40 or 50 Hz rolloff for your type of music might be better. If you don't have a monitoring system that can let you hear it than you might want to pick up a spectrum analyzer.

[an1989dy]

Originally Posted by Middleman

Actually 40 or 50 Hz rolloff for your type of music might be better. If you don't have a monitoring system that can let you hear it than you might want to pick up a spectrum analyzer.

what is a spectrum analyzer? and waht does rolloff mean?

[Middleman]

Roll off looks like this at 50Hz also called a hi pass filter.

[Middleman]

A spectrum analyzer provides a visual display of all the frequencies in a track. Here is a plug in analyzer but you can also get hardware based units. See the scale along the bottom? It's the range of all frequencies humans can hear, and some we can't.