Critique my bass-lines? (hard-rock/metal)

[Lionslicer9999]

I don't know if this is the correct part of the forum to do this, but I just joined a band, they had some videos on youtube without a bass player, I just joined, but I recorded over the videos some bass lines, and the one song has some open parts that the guitarist wanted some like walking basslines or something like that. I just wanted to see if anyone had any ideas or if its fine. Its not perfectly recorded, if you have bad speakers, you wont hear the bass at all. Plus while I was recording I kept changing my mind on a couple parts, so if it sounds inconsistant thats why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZOzFxNJiI

[Gearhead17]

I do not think anything you tried was necessarily bad on here. Keep working at it and as long as you "feel" your bass lines are making the song work, you are doing the right thing. Keep rockin' dude!

[plangentmusic]

From what I hear you did a pretty good job. I know the sound is intentionally dirty but I find the bass loses too much clarity when it's so distorted.

The drummer rushes the downbeat when he fills. Watch out for it. And don't let it give you any bad habits.

[Lionslicer9999]

Originally Posted by plangentmusic

From what I hear you did a pretty good job. I know the sound is intentionally dirty but I find the bass loses too much clarity when it's so distorted.

The drummer rushes the downbeat when he fills. Watch out for it. And don't let it give you any bad habits.

Well the sound sounds dirty because I recorded it with a vocal mic and a laptop with no real recording software lol, I just tried to match the level as best I could. Not matter what I did to the tone on my EQ the bass sounded the same.

The fills did effect what I was doing on bass because I was trying to stay on rhythm with the drums and not just go color outside the lines or anything like that lol.