Welcome to the Internets - video w/ audio done in Reaper

[jdavidb]

I have had a variety of weird results when rendering with Lame to mp3 for uploading to myspace with this song. That is the only audio version I have uploaded. It is at http://www.myspace.com/ontrashakotra

The video audio turned out fine. It is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w2GV3ZghjM

You can see Reaper working behind me in the bass player scenes. Also in the recording: a Roland SH-32 hardware synth and 2 vsti's... algomusic.net Stringsynth and Big Tick Ticky Clav. The drums are a Boss Dr-880. The bass guitar part was the priority. Lyrics are kinda slack, but it put some vocals in the song too. The condenser mic shown in the vid is the one I used.

added another video upload location: http://www.livevideo.com/ontrashakotra

[pipelineaudio]

Awesome!

Tricky bass playing there too

[jdavidb]

hey pipelineaudio. This is the first I've known of you having a web site at http://www.pipelineaudio.net I'll go see what your site is all about soon.

I don't know why I was only thinking about the Youtube upload when I posted this. Everything looks and sounds better at Livevideo. http://www.livevideo.com/ontrashakotra The other vids are gone from Youtube, but Livevideo still has Red Planet, Green Onions and R.a.i.d.

The Welcome to the Internets bass part isn't quite as tricky as Red Planet

Cool, what kind of camera did you use to record the video?

[jdavidb]

Originally Posted by danny.guitar

Cool, what kind of camera did you use to record the video?

Panasonic SDR-H18 hard drive camera with a 75 watt flood in a par-38 can light. It takes more direct light than usual to make videos with 1 ccd Panasonic camcorders.

[propman]

If you don't mint me asking, how did you process your bass to sound like that? very punchy.

[jdavidb]

Originally Posted by propman

If you don't mint me asking, how did you process your bass to sound like that? very punchy.

The blue 5-string bass has an Aguilar OBP-1 preamp, the 18 volt version. I would have bought the 9v version, Obp-2 if it had been available at the time.

The bass channel is a Sansamp RBI.

Raid, Red Planet and Green Onions are done with a 4-string passive bass, no onboard preamp. The good points of that bass's sound are Basslines Quarter Pounder p-bass pickups.

[propman]

I know it has to not be that impressive, but I have a squier bass that I direct line into an m-audio fast track usb then into reaper. That is all. Is there any way that I could make my bass sound tight and punchy as yours did with some type of vst, or eqs, comps, etc.? Thanks.

[jdavidb]

Originally Posted by propman

I know it has to not be that impressive, but I have a squier bass that I direct line into an m-audio fast track usb then into reaper. That is all. Is there any way that I could make my bass sound tight and punchy as yours did with some type of vst, or eqs, comps, etc.? Thanks.

If you have good vst's or hardware amp settings for Drive and Presence, that might help. On the Sansamp RBI for Welcome to the Internets, I had Drive at 20%, Presence at 40%, Bass and Treble eq flat at the 50% centers and Mid boosted 10%

Bass guitar (in that song) is mixed as loud as the kick and snare drums, fluttering around between -6 and 0 on the vu meter. I don't usually put compressor, limiter or eq on the bass channel in the recording software. I mix it as high as I can with only db fractions of rare clipping then use a limiter on the master to keep the ceiling at 0 db.