Only once have I seen an engineer recording my bass amp with a mic, he was recording our whole group directly live in a studio, with specific mics for each instrument. The most important is EQ of course, but if you want to add a flanger or whatever, you can also do it into Live, without loosing your original recording so you can try different combinations and choose which one you find best.Īll the sound engineers I've seen at work are recording basses this way - most use a DI to change the bass output to line level into the mixing table for passive basses but some mixing tables can do that with a button. Then, after the clips are recorded, I adjust the sound using Live audio effects. If you keep the track into stereo mode you will only have signal on one side. When recording the bass I put the Ableton Live track into mono so the signal is dispatched to both stereo outputs. If you want to work on your sound in Live, you need to have lows, meds and highs in good quantity right into your recorded sound. If you cut the highs in your bass sound, you will never make them appear by magic afterwards. The important point to remember is that this bass setting will color your sound at first, and it's your choice to color a lot or not. But this EQ can't be fixed afterwards so maybe it's not the right way for YOU and neutral EQ could be best in your case, you have to try to know, and it depends on your bass too. My active Cort A5 has very powerful lows so I let the EQ quite neutral, but on my Fender Precision I put the lows full on, because I like to have a very round sound. The only settings I adjust are the micro selectors on the bass itself, and possibly the EQ of the bass depending on which one I use. I make the sound as neutral as possible: neutral EQ, no filtering, absolutely nothing special before the Ableton Live track. My interface has inputs with a pre-amp (m-audio fw 410) but I find the sound is better with my Mackie 1402-VLZ so I plug the bass on a track of the mixer, and get the L/R outputs of the mixer into line 1/2 of the interface.
Hello, when I record my bass I simply plug it directly into the interface, going through a pre-amp though.
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