Dags
New member
Hi all
For those of you who like to experiment with your recordings, give this a whirl....
Was fooling around with a really crappy sounding live performance DI bass recording & wondering how I could re-amp it at home to make it sound fuller (I don’t own a bass amp)
It needed to be compressed, EQd and be subjected to some actual speaker and air movement to improve the thin, toppy sound of the DI signal.
In the absence of a bass amp to use, I came up with the crazy idea of sending the track out of the DAW into a compressor/EQ unit then into a pair of headphones, hanging one earphone over the end of a dynamic mic and recording the very close mic signal back into the DAW via another compressor/EQ unit.
Surprisingly, it actually worked out pretty well.
(I took a picture of the headphone hanging over the end of the mic just for fun but I can’t upload photos to this forum)
Afterwards, I realised I have a keyboard amp somewhere that I could have used which would have been much better. Oh well.
Happy experimentation!
Dags
For those of you who like to experiment with your recordings, give this a whirl....
Was fooling around with a really crappy sounding live performance DI bass recording & wondering how I could re-amp it at home to make it sound fuller (I don’t own a bass amp)
It needed to be compressed, EQd and be subjected to some actual speaker and air movement to improve the thin, toppy sound of the DI signal.
In the absence of a bass amp to use, I came up with the crazy idea of sending the track out of the DAW into a compressor/EQ unit then into a pair of headphones, hanging one earphone over the end of a dynamic mic and recording the very close mic signal back into the DAW via another compressor/EQ unit.
Surprisingly, it actually worked out pretty well.
(I took a picture of the headphone hanging over the end of the mic just for fun but I can’t upload photos to this forum)
Afterwards, I realised I have a keyboard amp somewhere that I could have used which would have been much better. Oh well.
Happy experimentation!
Dags