Recording my Synth Bass

[ben_the_bass]

The last time I recorded with my band was about a month ago and one of the songs we recorded uses my Line 6's synth bass effect. Most times I can get an explosive sound out of the amp without much tweaking on my basses and my passive basses have the best consistent synth tone. However, when I went to record it, the tone was flat and dead. I'm a complete newbie to recording and I'm just now taking a commercial music production class so please keep the jargen to a minimum.

[tomvelsor]

try micing the cab maybe?

[FF Petro]

Actually, micing a cab is probably the problem. If you mic a cab you want the signal to be as dry as possible; no reverbs, delays, echos.

I am guessing that you did mic the cab. If you did, try using the DI out on the back of the amp. If you really want to use a mic you could mic the cab and record a track, then play the track back into the effect and cab and use the DI on the back to record a new track with the effect on it.

I think it would yield almost the exact results with both techniques. However going straight from DI to recording would be much easier.