Miking Bass

[mikemoritz]

I tried running my brother's bass through my board, and it sounded good, but his style is a rhythmic one on the bass. Therefore, he tends to smack the strings on the beats. I was getting really bad popping from going direct, but it did help to mic the amp itself. I got decent results, but am going for better. Has anyone tried both miking and putting the amp directly through the board? Is this a good technique? Thanks for the help.

 

[John Sayers]

If he's popping etc through the board direct it'll happen throug the amp. It's caused by the string hitting the pickup so try lowering the pickup, or raising the strings.
cheers
john

 

[Sabith]

Well........ what program are U using to record??? cause if U just turn the gain down some, so when he does smack the string it doesn't peak, you could go in an compress the bass after with a compressor patch. And that would help level out that crazy bassists slapin tendency.......

but try what John said first....

and if U record both the miced amp and a direct at the same time, it can sound good, but it depends on a couple things: quality of mic, quality of preamps, the line signal from the amp, and the amps speaker quality. U should just try it, the sounds might not match up to well, no harm in tryin =)

Sabith