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09-03-2008, 10:25 PM
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I sadly have to say that when it comes to recording MOST bassist arnt prepared. STUDY YOUR MUSIC, PRACTICE and then PRACTICE SOME MORE, Why waist 3 hours when it could of taken 30min?. It will make your band happy, you happy and the recording happy.
| This was on the "tips" section of a recording-studio's site.
What the hell kind of bands are these people recording that the Guitarists are more responsible than the Bassist  |
09-03-2008, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by LLink24  This was on the "tips" section of a recording-studio's site.
What the hell kind of bands are these people recording that the Guitarists are more responsible than the Bassist | And why can't they spell?
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09-03-2008, 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by LLink24 This was on the "tips" section of a recording-studio's site.
What the hell kind of bands are these people recording that the Guitarists are more responsible than the Bassist | Well, the advice-giver is clearly illiterate. Let's hope he's a much better bass player than grammaticist.
I sadly have to say that when it comes to recording MOST bassist s ar en 't prepared. STUDY YOUR MUSIC, PRACTICE and then PRACTICE SOME MORE . Why wa ste 3 hours when it could have taken 30min? It will make your band happy, you happy and the recording happy.
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09-04-2008, 04:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Reykjavík / Iceland | | | well, a bassist who plays in a indie rock band came and recorded their music at out studio (me and my friends studio). We first of recorded the drums and then said... well bass player your next. Then he didn't want to play becouse he couldn't play the songs without hearing the gutiarist (we had a demo take... so he could hear the guitar track. But no.. he had to hear the final guitar track. Didn't bother me, just kind of stupid i thought.
I often go just along with the drums.
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09-04-2008, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Diddii well, a bassist who plays in a indie rock band came and recorded their music at out studio (me and my friends studio). We first of recorded the drums and then said... well bass player your next. Then he didn't want to play becouse he couldn't play the songs without hearing the gutiarist (we had a demo take... so he could hear the guitar track. But no.. he had to hear the final guitar track. Didn't bother me, just kind of stupid i thought.
I often go just along with the drums. | I don't blame him. The bassist's job is to tie the guitars and drums together, so it's legitimate to feel like you can't do a good job if the guitars aren't in place already. My band recorded our EP with all the instruments tracking together, but if we had done individual takes, I would have fought tooth and nail to go last. |
09-04-2008, 10:15 AM
| | | | Actually I like to lay a b-line down and then have the option to do a final one after everything else is there.
I tend to play less if there is more other stuff on the track, which is a good thing. If you have everything else going on then you tend to find the relevant gaps for the bass moments, rather than a scattergun approach which can impair the song instead of improving it. IMO & IME....
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09-04-2008, 10:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington, DC | | | Speaking of which, does anyone find it exceedingly hard to track to a pre-recorded drum line?
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09-04-2008, 10:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Coatesville, PA | | | Thats not fare! Ime a basist and I practise all the thyme! I yoosed too skip inglish class and just thump away on my fore string. |
09-04-2008, 10:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Québec city ,Canada | | | Well, I think that this ''tip'' comes from the rock world, where often the bass ''player'' is a non-musician friend or a sucky guitar player that just plays the roots and never practice because he don't care about the instrument at all. In a band mix, if you eq your sound to be a big woofy mess, you won't hear the mistakes yet it will still support the band and do it's job, especially when the band plays crappy soundning shows. In the studio however it's a different story, if you suck everyone will notice and if you never practiced playing tight well you'll waste everybody's time |
09-04-2008, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Diddii well, a bassist who plays in a indie rock band came and recorded their music at out studio (me and my friends studio). We first of recorded the drums and then said... well bass player your next. Then he didn't want to play becouse he couldn't play the songs without hearing the gutiarist (we had a demo take... so he could hear the guitar track. But no.. he had to hear the final guitar track. Didn't bother me, just kind of stupid i thought.
I often go just along with the drums. | Got a drummer mate who went in to do a recording and when they listened to the first take with all their parts in it they turned to him and said 'you're out of time.'
"Really?" he said " I was the first one in -you all recorded to the drum track - you were all out of time!" |
09-04-2008, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by COOL AND DEADLY Thats not fare! Ime a basist and I practise all the thyme! I yoosed too skip inglish class and just thump away on my fore string. | Ewe speld "eyem" rong.
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09-05-2008, 04:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: ST Pete Florida | | | We've never done any studio time but I stopped in one that opened up around the corner from work and he talked about recording one instrument at a time like that. I just looked at him like he was nuts. That would never work with us...But then again we're just a bunch of guys in a garage with a girl drummer...LOL
But we can spell. |
09-05-2008, 11:18 AM
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09-05-2008, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by rockambo Speaking of which, does anyone find it exceedingly hard to track to a pre-recorded drum line? | Not if the drummer was good and he followed a click track.
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