Electric bass record.

[sower]

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[Nine Spine]

What amp? What Cabs? What Bass? What Pickups? What Mic's? What Pre's? Are you going direct? What kind of song? Is he/she slapping? Fingers or pick? Info man we need info or else your not going to get detailed responses!! Too many variables! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[where02190]

We generally run electric bass through a tube direct and tube compression.

[Kickin.da.speaker]

I run my (cheap) bass through my guitar pod emulating a semi-clean tube preamp, and I got GREAT results. You can hear them on my song Everything We Knew, or also, for a slightly cleaner, sweeter sound on The Taste Of My Love (after the electronic intro, with the first verse.) .

But like Nine Spines mentioned, a detailed question will produce more detailed answers [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Mr T]

I'm playing my basses through my TLA preamp, the TLA is connected to the mixer (for more equing/leveling/routing possibilities) which is connected to the 001. It's OK. But I was getting greater results when playing my bass through my huge Marshall 100W Tube Amp. and recording the result with a mic. I've stopped doing this since it's a guitar amp.and it was ruinning it slowly but surely...too bad. If you have a good bass amp., I would highly recommend you try recording with a mic (it allows you to set your sound on the amp. itself, like you would do when using a preamp as the TLA I'm using, but you can also work on the sound by placing your mic. It kind of multiplies the possibilities by taking advantages of the accoustic).

[seandaly]

I usually track bass direct (I use an old Whirlwind passive DI box) with a touch of compression (dbx 166 at 4:1 at a fairly high threshold)

If I want more color, I reamp or EQ or...

haven't yet tried Pod or any other amp simulators though, have been putting my euros into $$$ video hardware

- Sean

[where02190]

Hey Mr T, what flavor TL Audio's you got?

Sean, have you given a listen to your bass without the 166 inline? I find them to color the high end considerably. Just my 2 cents worth. (Hey I have one as well....)

[Mr T]

I've got the Ivory serie Valve processor 5051. It's not the best sounding preamp-comp. unit I've ever heard (far from it in fact), but at the time I bought it, there were not many choices (at that price). You?...

[Master Mind]

Try an active DI like a Countryman into the mic pre. You'd be surprised at how many pro recordings were made just that simply.

[Eddie K. wannabe]

I've got the gutar and bass pod, love them both. The bass pod sound great if ask me, i use a cheap overseas fender standard, and have achieved some great bass sounds. If your think about a modeler definately spring for a pod, the korg/digitech modeler/($100-$200 range) sound terrible.