Different tones from different DIs?

[businessnotplea]

I've been recording bass and experimenting with different ways to do it. I believe I'm taking 2 seperate DIs (different takes) but one is clangy and rich in high end, and the other is deep beautiful but has no bite.

The first was taken from a behringer mic200 tube preamp, this box has a DI facility which sits between the bass signal and recorder, it has lots of clangy 3khz, it sounds more top heavy but a spectrum analyser confirmed it was actually a quite well balanced frequency range. It gave an unimpressive thin bass sound.

The second was taken from a Trace Elliot bass head with a DI ouput directly on the amp itself. This sounds beautifully low and looks more like a desirable signal (In the bass range anyway) but the mid/high midrange hardly registers for the high end. Any ideas please? Should I just try to Eq bite/presence into it? All were recorded flat with no Eq, compression etc. Thank you.

 

[gecko zzed]

Most likely it is not the DI component, but what comes before that that is giving the differences in tone.

 

[moresound]

Try micing up the amp for some real good bass recordings.

 

[businessnotplea]

Good point gecko, there is a "Pre-shape" switch on the bass amp, I did use one of these but every setting including off is so deep and bassy with a subtly high end. Perhaps this is the answer.

I did mic it as well actually moresound, I was getting a lot of hiss from the mic though due to the low levels the bass cab had to be set at. Thanks for your responses

 

[moresound]

Low levels? Why?