Looking for help recording bass using focusrite

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Hi @Al1885

@Al1885

First of all what are you trying to do?

Are you recording bass to a song? What is your channels look like?
Is it a mix minus bass or everything stems out in separate channels?

I’m trying to record my bass in a new FL Studio project without any other audio existing. It’s in a dedicated audio channel. My bass is directly plugged into the first input of the audio interface.

The focusrite inputs are configured on “INST”, already checked the buffer sire etc …

@Al1885

I don’t really do serious recording at home, usually someone else do that part for me, but my set up is direct box to the 4i4 then to the computer. I get the sound I want before mix. I’m very happy with the final sound of this setup.

By Direct box do you mean that you use something between the bass and the audio interface ? If yes, what kind of device ?

The fact is, @howard seems to be able to have a really clean sound directly from bass to audio interface (see here : Plugin advice - bass and guitar - #11 by howard), and I’m really curious to know what the setup is. it’s less metallic, sounds like a real bass sound before the plugins addition.

Hi @brian2

@brian2

What speakers you are listening through might be struggling to reproduce the sound.

The speakers are monitoring presonus e5, and the headphone is MDR-7506 they are both pretty decent.

@brian2

If you want to hear a bass track that has a lot of extra noise, the isolated bass from Soundgarden’s “Burden in my Hand”:

That’s very interesting thanks. So maybe the sound I got is not that terrible, but just “normal” and need mixing.