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Recording the amp tone?

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Bluez Dawg

Oct 17, 2005
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Out Of My Mind.
#1
Hi all I want to know how the heck I should this?

Should I buy a mic? & record it that way, So I can get the full tone of the amp & bass working together? Or should I buy a small mixor and record it that way? Then pop the Cd in to the cd rom drive of my pc then edit it like I normely do?
 
#2
DerekTbasser said:
Or should I buy a small mixor and record it that way? Then pop the Cd in to the cd rom drive of my pc then edit it like I normely do?
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Do you mean record direct from your bass through the mixer? Sure you can do that. It's up yo you. You can get some of your amp's tone by using the DI from your amp (if it has one) to the board also. The best of both worlds would be to get a small mixer and record the direct signal simulatneously with the miked signal. Then you'll wind up with two tracks of bass that you can mix and process individually until it sounds the way you want it to.
 
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DerekTbasser said:
Hi all I want to know how the heck I should this?

Should I buy a mic? & record it that way, So I can get the full tone of the amp & bass working together? Or should I buy a small mixor and record it that way? Then pop the Cd in to the cd rom drive of my pc then edit it like I normely do?
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I play through a Demeter with a DI out, I usually run out that and record. however, if you wanted the tone of the cab also, then yeah, you'd wanna mic it. otherwise, you could always go from your bass directly in, and use the mixer to tweak it however you wanted.
 

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