Saving my bass lines

I use an Ipad with Garage Band, Jam Up Pro XT, and BIAS. You can also get all of these on an Iphone. I also use a Apogee Jam 96k for my interface. To be honest I record both guitar and bass with this setup and have not used an amp at the house in a very long time.

 

Direct in to Mackie Onyx interface connected to Digital Performer 5.13 on an old Mac, send to a Sunn Coliseum for monitor. Pretty easy.

 

I use an EHX LPD 2ube preamp pedal into my soundcard which is the simple and fairly inexpensive M-Audio Fast Track for USB (I'd recommend you actually use some kind of tube preamp, although most sound cards will have an instrument input, and that you invest in a sound card that can record in 24 bit sound quality and have the option of direct monitoring of your input signal for zero latency monitoring).

As recording program I use the multi track recording and editing tool Cubase 5 (But I actually prefer to use Logic which unfortunately is not developed for PC anymore, and I can't afford a Mac)

As a much cheaper alternative to a to Cubase, I can only recommend the fine recording and editing tool Reaper though.

Reaper comes with a fully functional 60 days free trial period and it cost merely 225$ for a full license.

For listening to your songs I further recommend that you use either studio speakers or a good pair of studio headphones (Personally I use Sennheiser HD 380 Pro headphones).

Good luck with getting started making your own recordings

 

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