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Recording bass guitar, in my case the Fender bass.Recording bass guitar, is very similiar to recording electric guitar which I discussed in another folder. I use a Fender bass and most of the time I plug it into one of the instrument jacks on my Presonus Firepod interface. I then check my recording levels and adjust the EQ if necessary in the Sonar 7 software. There should be room for both the bass guitar and the bass drum. There's tricks for doing this using a Parametric Equalizer to locate the center frequency of both. Then you have to cut and boost each one so they both can be heard in the mix. The Mixing Engineer's Handbook is one book that talks about these tricks. Like I mentioned before, you're going to have to read a lot and then experiment a lot but soon it will become second nature to you. I always pan the bass guitar and the bass drum to the center.
Another option I have when I'm recording is the Manley Tube Direct Interface pictured below. It works kind of like the Genesis 1 that I talked about in recording electric guitar. You get to choose what type of bass sound you want, either full bass or medium. The Manley can also be used to record electric guitar as well. This gives the track that warm tube sound.
And of course, you always have the option of putting a microphone in front of the amp. Click here to leave recording bass guitar and go to Recording MIDI.
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