Posted on Jan 24, 2005 11:30 pm
thermocaster
Appenine
Member Since: Dec 13, 2004
Alright...here's the situation. I made all these system upgrades (new CPU, new soundcard, an actual Behringer preamp) and have been recording, and the changes have had a really positive sonic impact on my regular guitars, on the vocals, on other stuff...but my bass guitar has become almost unworkable!
I used to get a nice, muddy, throbbing, even sound out of the bass when I was recording via the old computer, which just had the crappy Dell-installed soundcard and that was it. Now, the bass just sounds fuzzy and ill-defined, and really sticks out like a sore thumb on the recordings...to the point where I haven't even used it on a couple.
I tried re-routing the bass through my solid-state amp and direct-connecting it into the soundcard, but that seems to only make it worse. And going directly into the pre-amp seems to generate a lot of hiss.
I don't own a very expensive bass by any means - it's a $200 Yamaha without a model number that I bought 10 years ago. I'm hoping that the answer to this problem isn't that I need to get a new bass, because that's an expense I'd have trouble justifying to myself right now. :)
Any ideas? Is there a particular effects chain I might be able to put it through in CEP to muddy it up and give it that even sound again? Or another way to send the signal to the sound card?
Thanks.
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