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Offline djgroovin

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Recording Bass
« on: January 06, 2005, 02:30:57 PM »
Is anyone doing any recording with their bass?  I am in the process of setting up a home studio.  I work with computers for a living so I was going to go PC base recording.

I have a friend with a production company that would like me to record some bass lines for some of his tracks.  He wants to send me the songs and have me lay down the bass lines.

Well from my research...I decided to do both DI(digital input) and amped recording.

What I need to know is how is the DI box physically connected?  Do I go from the bass to the DI to the amp to the mixer or from the bass to the amp to the DI to the mixer?  DI or amp first?

Thanks for any input!

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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2005, 02:53:11 AM »
Connect the bass guitar to DI box, then the DI box to the mixer. Connect the mixer to your PC's audio card.

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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2005, 06:15:18 AM »
I'm in the process of setting up a home studio, which should be finished by the summer. I plan to have a dedicated DAW to record with. I don't plan to use my computer, right now.

If you're not worried about the price, you could look at these DAWs:

Computer based:
Tascam FW-1884 (12track *I think*, DAW, 40GB hd)
Tascam US-2400 (24track controller board)

Dedicated:
Roland VS-2400CD (24track, cd burner built-in, 40gb)
Boss BR 1600CD (16track, cd burner built-in, 40gb *I think*)

These are the ones that I'm looking at now. I'm leaning toward the VS2400CD, because it does everything by itself, so I wouldn't need to buy/build a computer. This justifies, to me, spending the 2300 on it. The rest are below the 1500 range. The BR1600 is the cheapest...I think.

All that said, you could get a 10track recorder for about the same price as a computer. I'm looking more at the quality and features though.

If you want to cheap it out, you can get a Pro Tools Mbox for about 500 dollars. It includes the Pro Tools software with it. You'll still need a computer though....

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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2005, 09:51:55 AM »
...SPEAK TO YOUR FRIEND TO FIND OUT IN WHAT FORMAT HE IS SENDING IT TO YOU AND HOW HE INTENDS TO TRANSFER YOUR BASS PART FROM YOUR PROJECT TO HIS.
  COMPATABILITY ISSUES BETWEEN TECHNOLOGIES ARE RAMPANT IN THIS INDUSTRY!...
  SO TALK WITH WHOEVER YOU ARE DEALING WITH...TO FIND OUT IF IT IS WORTHWILE USING WHAT THEY CAN USE....MAYBE ALL THEY WANT IS A MIDI FILE OR A SAMPLE....

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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2005, 03:35:16 PM »
what i did was purchase a brand new Dell P4 Dimension desktop (sales
are going on all the time), for under $500 (free LCD upgrade),
purchased the TASCAM USB 224 for $200, which includes a scaled down
 version of Cubase, and also picked up Band-In-A-Box ($60), and
tweaked the WinXP O/S per the TASCAM guide, connected the output
of the TASCAM to an old receiver with some bookshelf JBLs I picked up
onsale at BestBuy for $50.  more than enough for personal recordings.

Offline djgroovin

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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2005, 07:26:01 AM »
Thanks for the input.  I actually wanted to know, when I was using a direct input if I needed to go to the DI box before I went through my amp head.  I was also going to mike the cabinet so that I would have different bass sounds and tones to manupulate in the recording.  I just bought an amp head with an XLR input which acts as a DI box so I don't need one now.
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