BASS LINES

Recording bass guitar can be done several ways, I'm just scratching the surface with this post I'm just gonna tell you about a previous project I recorded with a great and experienced bass player. Now his playing was phenomenal but his gear wasn't the best and being that I didn't have a DI box (my first mistake and being on a tight budget we we were outta luck) I had no choice but to run out of the direct out of his bass head. Which would've been fine except his bass head was a P.O.S.!! So all his good playing could only go so far because with all the "hiss" or "noise" on each track, I now have no choice but to throw a low-pass filter on it. I didn't record the bass with an EQ on it. You can, but then your limiting yourself when it comes to mixing down.


Now had I used a DI box, I would've been guaranteed a clean bass signal. But I didn't so now I'm putting a low-pass filter on every bass track that we did. THAT MEANS THE BASS TRACKS WE RECORDED ARE NOW SCRATCH BASS TRACKS TILL WE RE-RECORD...

I knew after the first second I heard that hiss but I didn't want to ruin the bassists' vibe because he was writing as he went... and as a producer I know better than to do that. So now all the bassists has to do is replay what he wrote instead of stalling the whole process and project, over a lil bit of hiss (which in my opinion could add an analogue effect but to have it in every song is OVER KILL)...We were on borrowed time (refer to New Journey's with old Friends if u have the time)


So besides having to drive 800 miles to re-record the bass lines, I still have a record to make and who knows a Good Engineer can make it work or sound the best it possibly can, maybe I won't haft to replace the tracks after all (at least every track)


****WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, IF AN INSTRUMENT ISN'T RECORDED CORRECTLY IN THE BEGINNING, WELL YOU CAN'T POLISH A TURD (A GREAT ENGINEER ONCE SAID)****


GBEATS
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