Splitting Bass Signal - Dry and Effected?

behndy · #1 07-27-2010, 09:49 AM

hallo!

so, in the middle of a project where we're tracking all the bass ourselves to save time and money. i have a decent setup for recording un-mic'd, but was wondering about one thing....

what's the best way to split the signal so that i can simultaneously record a dry and effected/eq'd signal?

i'm trying to give the engineer one track that is just the bass directly into the Motu 828 MK II (our recording interface), and one track that is going through my pedalboard of effects that has a SansAmp at the end.

right now i'm just using a Female to Double Male y-splitter and sending one into my pedalboard -> an 828 input and the other side -> an 828 input.

is there a better way? am i doing it all dumb and fumbly like?

thanks!

s_mcsleazy · #2 07-27-2010, 09:57 AM

well what i do in one of my bands is cos we dont have a guitar ive got to fill in on bass and i take the wet out of my whammy into a marshall guitar amp and the dry into a bass amp

but in your case id just sugest a y cable

behndy · #3 07-27-2010, 10:18 AM

yah.... the y cable seems to work ok.... just wanted to make sure i wasn't doing anything weird like dropping the impedence or something.

thanks!

alexwittscheck · #4 07-27-2010, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by behndy

yah.... the y cable seems to work ok.... just wanted to make sure i wasn't doing anything weird like dropping the impedence or something.

thanks!

I'm pretty sure you are dropping the impedance. I think that is a consequence of splitting the signal in any way. It is the price you pay to get a dry signal. I know it affects the sound of guitar amps. I am not sure how much it will affect your pedals though. Maybe someone who knows more than me will chime in, because I could very well be wrong.

bassbrad · #5 07-27-2010, 10:43 AM

I have started recording all bass parts DI on one track and then coming back and reprocessing the track as needed; eq, compression, effects, amp..... and recording that to another track or a stereo pair depending on the effects. Then I mix the results for the final bass track(s).

BroKenSticKs · #6 07-29-2010, 04:50 PM

i plan on doing the same thing by running into a di box in front of my pedals. Seems like that would be the best way to do it.

behndy · #7 07-29-2010, 05:35 PM

hurm. that makes sense actually.

i have a couple extra sansamps laying around. maybe....

bass -> SansAmp -> PARRALEL OUT -> comp
|-> OUTPUT -> efx -> comp

gonna try that.

thanks!!