Yeah, really good cover there. the tone is remarkable, it sounds like you nailed that.
You really were able to play the appropriate tension to your plucks, (i forget the term to go from lower to more pronounced notes) and you did it nicely.
The only thing I though, And I may be wrong, (I am a recording newb)
but it sounded like those notes played hard were saturated a littlel bit, probably caused by clipping the signal going into the pre-amp, or really those signals going from the bass to the Audiobox interface.
So, either you were seeing some clipping on the signal on the Audiobox, or you were recording with your volume levels set a little too high, and it clipped in the track. Or you may have been going for that sound.
My first couple covers, I thought I was trying to get more bass into the track, and then was told I was saturated, meaning too much incoming signal strength for the gain stage in the Audio interface, or in the tracks, how the amps and total output volums are set.
There are others that can help you more with that,
But @howard dold me a godd place to start is to turn everything to -3.0db.
Recording level on track itself could be set down to -3.0, the recording volume on the AMP you choose in Reaper (if you use one) can be set to -.3.0db and then the total output meters (the one that sets the volume when you record the song out to a platform, like on the hard disk or CD or thumb drive, whatever, that can be set to -3.0 db to start as well
Also, play your open e string loud, and set the volume on the audio Box GAIN to where it clips (should flash red light) and then back off a little til you donāt see it.
If you do all that, you will probably have it too low.
Andi, truth be told, your track, the overall volume and everyhing really sounds great, and not saturated, it is just some of those low notes played with force that I hear it.
So you could probably leave everything where it is, and then just turn down one of the things on the bass. either the DAI incoming, gain, make sure no clipping with the loudest lowest notes.
and then just on the bass track back it to -3.0. cuz the rest of the track sounds fine.
its just a little tweak, and it will be perfect. you just have to find where that clipping is coming from, which place to make the adjustment, and when you do, it will be gold.
