I’m trying to record my bass in Reaper. It’s going straight into a Focusrite 2i2 interface (no pre-amp or anything) and then into my laptop. I add a track and arm it, and I can hear my bass - but there’s a very odd effect where it seems to be lifting the lowest frequencies by an octave. The simplest way to describe it is that playing the E string open is the same note in the same octave as fret 12 of the E string. But then the next octave up (e.g. G string fret 9) is, as you’d expect, another octave up.
Anyone come across this? It’s a new project in Reaper with just the one track, so I’m pretty sure there are no effects being applied to the sound in Reaper. Oh and it’s a common or garden Squier Classic Vibe P-Bass which sounds normal through an amp!