Armistice
Son of Yoda
Hi there...
As a guitarist who plays bass when I need to on my recordings, which are acoustic guitar heavy, I'm struggling to get "cut through" on the latest stuff I'm doing, which will often have 6 channels of 3 acoustic guitars playing approximately the same thing...
I'm DI-ing the bass into a channel strip into the recorder.
I'm assuming this is due to a combination of the following factors:
1. Lower frequencies from the acoustic guitars in abundance
2. Not being a good enough bass player in terms of volume control - the very low notes and very high notes seem to be generating louder signals for the same amount of pluck
I can EQ both the bass and acoustic guitars a bit to cut down the competition, but I like the big acoustic sound complete with low end and these are primarily acoustic songs so only so much I can do
I can compress the bass a bit to work on #2, but jeez I seem to be hammering it majorly to get it under control...
I can work on being a better bass player in terms of getting an equal volume on all notes thus reducing the need for compression...
Anything else by way of tricks and techniques I should be aware of? It stirkes me that I haven't had this level of problem before, but haven't tried to record exactly this style of music before either...
Cheers
As a guitarist who plays bass when I need to on my recordings, which are acoustic guitar heavy, I'm struggling to get "cut through" on the latest stuff I'm doing, which will often have 6 channels of 3 acoustic guitars playing approximately the same thing...
I'm DI-ing the bass into a channel strip into the recorder.
I'm assuming this is due to a combination of the following factors:
1. Lower frequencies from the acoustic guitars in abundance
2. Not being a good enough bass player in terms of volume control - the very low notes and very high notes seem to be generating louder signals for the same amount of pluck
I can EQ both the bass and acoustic guitars a bit to cut down the competition, but I like the big acoustic sound complete with low end and these are primarily acoustic songs so only so much I can do
I can compress the bass a bit to work on #2, but jeez I seem to be hammering it majorly to get it under control...
I can work on being a better bass player in terms of getting an equal volume on all notes thus reducing the need for compression...
Anything else by way of tricks and techniques I should be aware of? It stirkes me that I haven't had this level of problem before, but haven't tried to record exactly this style of music before either...
Cheers