Recording Bass- Need Help.

[wastedthelight]

Hey, recording and everythings been going great until I hit bass yesturday. The bass is so quiet. I'm running direct into a Creative SB Audigy 2 Value card.

Guitar works great but bass...can't hear it, its really faint. At one point when i got the level up it kept chopping as I was playing, outside the audio program too, just playing thru computer to speakers.

Using Sonar Producer. I got it to be okay if I plug into Mic In instead of Line In. however, i can't select Mic In inside Sonar, any advice??

Thanks.

 

[ez_willis]

How much recording do you plan on doing?

If at all possible you should try to pick up a different soundcard.

 

[wastedthelight]

i bought a low budget 24-bit card. the guitars sound just fine. I'm using pre-recorded drums and building the drum tracks from them so thats not an issue. I wish i could spend alot more on a card but $60 was all i could. Just wish i didnt buy it at an online store, damnit.

 

[ez_willis]

i bought a low budget 24-bit card. the guitars sound just fine. I'm using pre-recorded drums and building the drum tracks from them so thats not an issue. I wish i could spend alot more on a card but $60 was all i could. Just wish i didnt buy it at an online store, damnit.

Well at least you're playing music.

Your connections from the bass to the card are identical to the way you recorded the guitar? Did you run the guitar through a modeler like the POD or something?

Does the bass have active pickups?

 

[wastedthelight]

Well at least you're playing music.

Your connections from the bass to the card are identical to the way you recorded the guitar? Did you run the guitar through a modeler like the POD or something?

Does the bass have active pickups?

Yes they are the same. I even plugged guitar into the sound card, right after trying bass and everything seemed fine, straight, no pedals. My guitars were originally recorded with pedals though.

Sadly i don't have active pickups in any of my basses. Thinking of trying to push it thru my BBE sonic maxmizer first....havent used it in a few years.....you know if that pushes any power or just sound? dont wanna kill my card/computer, poor thing, haha.

 

[Davo364]

you really need a pre-amp of some sort to get a decent level, but failing that you could use the mic input on your audigy. go into options audio in sonar and select the mic in as an input and it should now be available to you from within your sonar project. you will also have to select mic in in your windows mixer as the recording source

cheers
Davo

 

[wastedthelight]

drum roll please..................i found the problem

So when i bought the bass american musical failed to mention this...as did Ibanez site....and reviewers.....it has freaking Active pickups!! i concluded it was something internetal after trying to record analog with my tascam 414mkII and it did the same thing. Took off the back cover and boom, battery right there. Couldn't believe it. So replaced it and all is good, recording sounds good. Was quiet but i beef it up with the 414mkII then send to the pc, works good, will normalize stuff and it should all be good.

As far as mic input. no, its not an option in sonar, its weird. Its all L/R/ R/L Mix stuff, nothign for mic

 

[Minion]

I wish i could spend alot more on a card but $60 was all i could. .

You can get an EMU 0404 for about $99 Canadian so about $85 US which has 4 Channels in and 4 Out with 24bit recording but without the Harmonic Distortion that you will experience with an Audigy card and with DSP Effects and Hardware Zero Latency Monitoring....

I Tried to record with my Old audigy Card but I noticed that there was between 3db and 9db of Backround Noise/Hum on my Recordings.. I could hear the Humm while there was Music Playing Back but when there was silence you could hear the Hum/Hiss in the Backround which you won"t get with the EMU 0404, You can even get a M-Audio 2496 for a tiny bit more or a M-audio Audiophile 410 for about the same Price.....

I got a M-Audio Delta 44 and it was a HUGE Sound Improvement over my Audigy card.....

Cheers

 

[ez_willis]

drum roll please..................i found the problem

You found the problem?

I found the problem- from way over here!