NAD/NBD Markbass/Precision!
Using the Anytune Pro desktop version, I zeroed in on the bass of this track, and while the ‘export tuned track’ function failed, the app did a good job of picking the frequencies out to edit in Logic Pro.
I notched out between 58-285hz with a steep curve and on the track with the MP3 of the song on it. I recorded my playing on a separate track with about a 4db bump at 140hz (150 seems to be P bass territory). I sat it pretty close to the level of the original version to see how well I could reproduce it, but if you wanted to highlight your bass playing more, you could easily bump it up with the eq or track volume.
For the engineers - I learned a couple things doing this, the first being just how tight a frequency band was afforded to the bass in a dense mix like this. I couldn’t hear any of the higher (or lower) frequencies of the original bass track outside after notching that out. Interesting, I’ll be more inclined to high and low pass things more aggressively in future.
The other thing I learned was how freakin good Markbass’ D.I.s are! Goodness they live up to the hype - I played my new Player P through my new 151 combo, recorded from the Di and it sounds way better than the combo speaker. FWIW I usually track through a 6-tube preamp and it held its own in a lovely way, i didn’t touch the bass track except for 2-3 dB of clean compression to get it sitting better.
I hope I did the song justice and hit me up if you want to ask about the process, I know I struggled finding any tutorials on extracting bass tracks for this purpose and this worked well for this song at least.
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Using the Anytune Pro desktop version, I zeroed in on the bass of this track, and while the ‘export tuned track’ function failed, the app did a good job of picking the frequencies out to edit in Logic Pro.
I notched out between 58-285hz with a steep curve and on the track with the MP3 of the song on it. I recorded my playing on a separate track with about a 4db bump at 140hz (150 seems to be P bass territory). I sat it pretty close to the level of the original version to see how well I could reproduce it, but if you wanted to highlight your bass playing more, you could easily bump it up with the eq or track volume.
For the engineers - I learned a couple things doing this, the first being just how tight a frequency band was afforded to the bass in a dense mix like this. I couldn’t hear any of the higher (or lower) frequencies of the original bass track outside after notching that out. Interesting, I’ll be more inclined to high and low pass things more aggressively in future.
The other thing I learned was how freakin good Markbass’ D.I.s are! Goodness they live up to the hype - I played my new Player P through my new 151 combo, recorded from the Di and it sounds way better than the combo speaker. FWIW I usually track through a 6-tube preamp and it held its own in a lovely way, i didn’t touch the bass track except for 2-3 dB of clean compression to get it sitting better.
I hope I did the song justice and hit me up if you want to ask about the process, I know I struggled finding any tutorials on extracting bass tracks for this purpose and this worked well for this song at least.
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