Any suggestions to bring some life to my recordings?

[doriangrey]

That is an excellent overview of the basses I'm currently pondering. The jazz bass is a good consideration. One listen to Dazed and Confused or any early Zep is more than convincing. I wonder what his recording set up was like.

I'm need to go to GC and try them out first hand. I have narrowed these basses down from reviews I have read, but when it comes down to it, it's how it's how it personally feels to me that will make the determining factor.

As I mentiond before, I have a cheap P-bass copy with EMG-P's and I really like the way it sounds and plays. The neck is warped and the bass in general neeeds to be replaced.

Here is an mp3 of a professional studio recording. I played bass, vocals and guitar. Albeit, a different genre of music, the bass tracks I did on here are much more consistent than the previous mp3 I offered.

One Night Stand

Again, thanks for the pointers in bass technique. That advice will go a long way with me. Especially the advice on keeping the plucking parallel with the body.

Derek

The Jazz has a thin neck, the Precision's is wider, you'd just have to try them to see which you prefer. The Jazz offers a wider range of tones, with two single coil pick ups, which with the latest ones you can put in series to get a humbucker type tone (I have one and like it very much). Some feel that although the P offers fewer tones, what it has is better.

The G&L L2000 is also an excellent bass. It does not have P&J pickups, it has twin humbuckers (soapbars). It is also active (i.e. with an onboard pre, but passive pickups). You can set the pre amp to on, bypass or treble boost, and like the Jazz it has a very wide rnge of tones. I also have one but it lives under my bed as unlike you I have small hands and the neck is too wide for me to play the funk stuff we do now, but it is a fine rock bass. The Tribute models are the discount line, made in Korea but with the same electronics as the US made ones; I have the Premium version of the Tribute which has a swamp ash body and as I think they are about US$500 in the US they are unbelievable value for money, especially if you can get one used as the only basses which hold their value are Fenders.

The Sansamp DI is a nice box but doesn't give a full line level output, I have heard the new bass pod is nice but have never used one, personally I'd be inclined to experiment with the other pre-amp suggestions in this thread.

 

[Garry Sharp]

Listened to One Night Stand - not my style, but guitar and voice was very good indeed, and the bass was definitely smoother. Have fun at GC!

 

[vangore]

My suggestion would be to add some effects to the intruments. It sounds very good now, but a little dry. Adding some reverb and perhaps delay can many times add depth to a sound. Also works well for drums, but usually less well for bass.

I generally record dry, and then add effects during the mixdown process on the PC.

Ed

no no no no no not everything needs to be eq and compressed and i think that track sounds great considering the gear.