witzendoz
Senior Member
You know what, I am a bass player and sound Engineer. In the studio I play on a lot of other peoples recordings as well as my own band. Recording wise my favourite setup is to have a miced amp and a DI. Various amps and mics depending on the sound wanted. However when playing on other peoples recordings I often record from the control room and setting up an amp in the recording room is a bit of a pain, so I track using an instrument input on a TL audio Fatman (actually some were HHB badged and purple coloured I have one of these too) with a little compression, and I mean not much.
When mixing I hardly touch the EQ except to sometimes slightly boost the upper mids and to sometimes cut some low MID / Lows fi there is too much energy there, I often compress with the amount depending again on the sound wanted and how it sits in the mix.
This setup is standard for any of my basses I play, 4 string, 5 string, fretted, fretless. It is essential that the bass be setup correctly and have good strings or what ever you do to improve playing will still be wasted when you hit record.
Alan.
When mixing I hardly touch the EQ except to sometimes slightly boost the upper mids and to sometimes cut some low MID / Lows fi there is too much energy there, I often compress with the amount depending again on the sound wanted and how it sits in the mix.
This setup is standard for any of my basses I play, 4 string, 5 string, fretted, fretless. It is essential that the bass be setup correctly and have good strings or what ever you do to improve playing will still be wasted when you hit record.
Alan.