Hi folks,
I'm new here and I would ask a question about the bass recording.
Basically, I can summary my question: why the bass sound is a lot different if listened/recorded by a sound card?
Assumption: I have a complex pedalboard with a a 3Leaf Enabler Preamp at the end. So I have a good preamp pedal with a very classy headphones output and I can listen to me in a very good way (with 300 bucks headphones). I can hear the smallest sound differences if I modify the onboard bass preamp equalization, pickup balance, pedals and equalization setup and so on. I mean: I have a really really good headphones reference of my sound and I would happy to record THIS sound.
A long story short: I've tried to record my bass using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 (1st gen) and a Presonus AudioBox 24c. Basically, when I put my 3leaf enabler preamp output into the sound card (with a mono jack or DI output, the result is the same), my sound changes drastically! I simply move my headphones from the 3Leaf Enabler preamp to the sound card headphones output and what I can hear is another world! Is like a different bass, with flattened sound, I can't hear all sound nuances anymore as I described before: the overall sound is knackered, anonymous, muddy, without "presence". The same happens connecting the bass directly to the sound cards.
Then I can record some bass lines and working in post-production I can achieve a pretty good result but isn't my sound, isn't what I can hear as my reference sound.
Now the question is: this is a normal condition for these types of sound card (maybe I need a more expensive one) or I'am doing something wrong?
Many thanks, bye!
I'm new here and I would ask a question about the bass recording.
Basically, I can summary my question: why the bass sound is a lot different if listened/recorded by a sound card?
Assumption: I have a complex pedalboard with a a 3Leaf Enabler Preamp at the end. So I have a good preamp pedal with a very classy headphones output and I can listen to me in a very good way (with 300 bucks headphones). I can hear the smallest sound differences if I modify the onboard bass preamp equalization, pickup balance, pedals and equalization setup and so on. I mean: I have a really really good headphones reference of my sound and I would happy to record THIS sound.
A long story short: I've tried to record my bass using a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 (1st gen) and a Presonus AudioBox 24c. Basically, when I put my 3leaf enabler preamp output into the sound card (with a mono jack or DI output, the result is the same), my sound changes drastically! I simply move my headphones from the 3Leaf Enabler preamp to the sound card headphones output and what I can hear is another world! Is like a different bass, with flattened sound, I can't hear all sound nuances anymore as I described before: the overall sound is knackered, anonymous, muddy, without "presence". The same happens connecting the bass directly to the sound cards.
Then I can record some bass lines and working in post-production I can achieve a pretty good result but isn't my sound, isn't what I can hear as my reference sound.
Now the question is: this is a normal condition for these types of sound card (maybe I need a more expensive one) or I'am doing something wrong?
Many thanks, bye!