Can anyone help me get this bass sound? Strings?Amp?Mic?Preamp?Eq?Compressor? etc...

[Diegel]

The bass on here sounds so good to me. Bassy yet clear and you can hear it distinct from everything else. Any tips would be appreciated. Amp type (solid state vs. tube)? Mic type? Mic placement? Eq usage? Tone control on bass? Bridge pickup vs neck pickup ratio. Compressor type and settings? Direct signal vs. amp ratio. And anything else... Thanks!

[Colonel Blues]

I feel it's because nobody else than the bass is playing in the same frequency range, piano, guitar & banjo are more in the upper freq. range, they give "air" to the bass !

Quality of an arrangement is very often THE solution before any EQ, comp, blah blah...

[Heartfelt]

Originally Posted by Colonel Blues

I feel it's because nobody else than the bass is playing in the same frequency range, piano, guitar & banjo are more in the upper freq. range, they give "air" to the bass !

Quality of an arrangement is very often THE solution before any EQ, comp, blah blah...

+1

There is nothing down there. It sounds to me that they knew the bass
player rocked. They centered the whole song around him. If the bass was
removed, the song would collapse. He is the entire bottom end. I was
suprised how high passed the piano was.


On the sound of the bass, it doesn't have a lot of highend nor lowend.
You don't hear any finger noise or rattle. It is likely low passed pretty
heavily. On the bottom, it isn't beefy. To me, not a seasoned pro,
it sounds more like a DI bass with compression. It is kind of a middle of
the road sound and it doesn't move an inch (it can't afford to).

[Diegel]

Originally Posted by Heartfelt

+1

There is nothing down there. It sounds to me that they knew the bass
player rocked. They centered the whole song around him. If the bass was
removed, the song would collapse. He is the entire bottom end. I was
suprised how high passed the piano was.


On the sound of the bass, it doesn't have a lot of highend nor lowend.
You don't hear any finger noise or rattle. It is likely low passed pretty
heavily. On the bottom, it isn't beefy. To me, not a seasoned pro,
it sounds more like a DI bass with compression. It is kind of a middle of
the road sound and it doesn't move an inch (it can't afford to).

Thanks! I get the whole eq everything else part which I have good experience with. I am looking more at how to get the bass to sound so great by itself. My bass tracks never sound that good. I know the player has a lot to do with it but I want to know I am doing everything on my end and I currently don't feel that I am. The bass just sounds so damn tight both dynamically and eq wise. Every note he plays sounds exactly the same level like you said. My bass tracks always sound like some notes get lost while others are too loud. And I don't think it is just because of dynamics but becuase of eq factors. Also I can't imagine this is DI only. So far I have only been doing DI and never get the bass to sound so separateable from the mix. My bass tracks always sound glued to everything else. So I imagine they must have used an amp at least in combination with the DI to get some air around the sound. Anyway I am going to have my friend who is a bass player help me out in experimenting trying to match the bass in this track. I think it will be a good learning experiment.

[Heartfelt]

You may be spot on.

I play most of my tracks but have a friend who IS a bass player. His rig smokes me from the word go... even direct.

[Diegel]

Originally Posted by Heartfelt

You may be spot on.

I play most of my tracks but have a friend who IS a bass player. His rig smokes me from the word go... even direct.

Cool. Whats his rig?

[Heartfelt]

Unfortunately, I don't remember.

He may be coming thursday to track. I'll make notes. Sorry.

If we do track. I will have samples as well. He trends to have a bit more top that what I heard you refer to. However, I can low pass it and see how it sounds.

[Diegel]

Originally Posted by Heartfelt

Unfortunately, I don't remember.

He may be coming thursday to track. I'll make notes. Sorry.

If we do track. I will have samples as well. He trends to have a bit more top that what I heard you refer to. However, I can low pass it and see how it sounds.

Great! Thanks, lookin forward to it!

[Heartfelt]

LOL
My friend forgot his bass head. Tonight got pushed back to next week. Sorry to disappoint.