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hey i am a beginner at all the recording stuff, but heres the situation. I am in a punk/rock band with a bass/guitar/vocals and drums. I have 8 channel behringer mixer, a behringer MDX4600 compressor, limiter, gate, ect. I want to start recording with cakewalk on my pc, but i am having bad luck recording the bass tracks. when i run it out of the direct out it always peaks but is very quiet. could someone pleasee tell me the best way to record bass tracks? the bass is a galien krueger with two cabinets.
 
the gurus will say something like this

roll off the low freq ~80 hz (down) and use compression there are freq charts on the mixing section of this forum
 
Actually 40 or 50 Hz rolloff for your type of music might be better. If you don't have a monitoring system that can let you hear it than you might want to pick up a spectrum analyzer.
 
Middleman said:
Actually 40 or 50 Hz rolloff for your type of music might be better. If you don't have a monitoring system that can let you hear it than you might want to pick up a spectrum analyzer.
what is a spectrum analyzer? and waht does rolloff mean?
 
Roll off looks like this at 50Hz also called a hi pass filter.
 

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A spectrum analyzer provides a visual display of all the frequencies in a track. Here is a plug in analyzer but you can also get hardware based units. See the scale along the bottom? It's the range of all frequencies humans can hear, and some we can't.
 

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