bass guitar

[martmix]

hi all

yesterday i recorded a bass guitar-track(direct in the souncard),i did experiment with the volume,tone..
of my bass guitar (i end up lower the volume of the bass guitar)

from there i record it,& i notice that the bass-guitar sit in the mix way more easy...

just to share

martin

[domzy]

way more easy than what? easier than if you hadn't sorted out your tone & input level first?

[martmix]

Originally Posted by domzy

way more easy than what? easier than if you hadn't sorted out your tone & input level first?

i mean less EQ adjustement

[ivansc]

By any chance, is the instrument a fender precision or similar? If not, are the pickups active or passive?

I tend to record either of my two basses (a fender P bass & an active epiphone prototype) with volume flat out & do the tweaking with the tone control.

[martmix]

Originally Posted by ivansc

By any chance, is the instrument a fender precision or similar? If not, are the pickups active or passive?

I tend to record either of my two basses (a fender P bass & an active epiphone prototype) with volume flat out & do the tweaking with the tone control.

a fender jaguar, thank you ivansc

[Fex]

Originally Posted by ivansc

two basses (a fender P bass & an active epiphone prototype)

I'm hijacking this thread in the hope of learning something. The Fender, I'm somewhat familiar with. Epiphone guitars, I'm somewhat familiar with. I know you know what you know (I'm a little surprised that you have only two basses, TBH). Can you share a few words about the Epiphone bass? I guess my question is, why that bass?

[Beat Machine]

record the sound you want

amazing

[ivansc]

Originally Posted by Fex

I'm hijacking this thread in the hope of learning something. The Fender, I'm somewhat familiar with. Epiphone guitars, I'm somewhat familiar with. I know you know what you know (I'm a little surprised that you have only two basses, TBH). Can you share a few words about the Epiphone bass? I guess my question is, why that bass?

#A bit irrelevant. When I lived in Nashville I got to know a lot of the guys who worked at Gibson`s factory & almost went to work on their help desk at one stage. Long story short, I had sold everything I had instrument-wise apart from my 1980 Tokai Springy Sound & my 1967 Fender Tele before leaving the UK. I was offered a gig playing bass for a band locally & was wondering how the hell I could afford to get a bass & an amp.
Hartley peavey had started doing his "giving stuff to anyone who might wind up on TV" thing & I scored a Peavey Combo 300 amp, then I got offered a prototype of a new model bass that Gibson were working on, made in Japan by whoever did Epiphone back then, since that factory made a lot of the prototypes, even some that would wind up being produced as real Gibsons. This one had an Explorer shaped body with a bolt on Fneder style neck and an Epiphone labelled four in line headstock. The kicker for me was that it also had a split Precision style pickup & controls. I was given it in 1982 & within a few weeks had bought one of the first EMG active P/J setups & had them fitted. I played that bass for decades on the road & of course in The Beat Poets, my band in Nashville. It has a groove worn in the front of the body where I rested my thumb for all those years & it still sounds great. Mind you I think I will be retiring it soon. Forgot to add that I also have an EUB by Bassix called a Jazza which is also a non-standard one! Oh nd did I mention the Starforce USA Banana yellow and crackly gold finish P/J bass? Made in Korea in the early eighties I believe. Phew! Well you did ask...

[Fex]

Thank you.

[Lophophora]

I personally found that using a quality DI box in between the bass and the AI made a significant improvement to the bass guitar tone (Yamaha and Fender Jazz).

[martmix]

Originally Posted by Lophophora

I personally found that using a quality DI box in between the bass and the AI made a significant improvement to the bass guitar tone (Yamaha and Fender Jazz).

thanks Lophophora

[drummerboy]

Anyone tried the Rupert Neve RNDI?
It can go either between Bass and Amp or directly to the Speaker-Output of your amp(!).
I adore that thing, sounds really good!

Best,
Frank

[Beat Machine]

try an outboard compressor b4 the a/d input

bass looses 'punch' without an amp

[martmix]

Originally Posted by drummerboy

Anyone tried the Rupert Neve RNDI?
It can go either between Bass and Amp or directly to the Speaker-Output of your amp(!).
I adore that thing, sounds really good!

Best,
Frank

tkx Frank

[ashcat_lt]

Most passive DIs will take a speaker level input. That’s kinda why they usually have pad switches. They probably won’t have quite such fancy transformers or Neve designed preamp built in...

BTW your amp would probably prefer if you took the parallel thru jack to the speaker too. Especially tube amps really need a pretty significant load (low impedance) to keep from killing themselves.