I’ve got home recorded bass sounding much better. I’m an amp guy I’ve generally hated the sound of direct bass with a passion, but with a little compression and pultec style eq it sounds great recorded. You can tell CCR did it at least sometimes.

My new fuss is this fuzz bass sound I got. I have a combination of effects and Ampeg V2 that gets a bass sound that sounds just like Martin Rev’s left hand in the room, but it sucks recorded. I basically never use fuzz or effects on bass and I’ve burned a couple weeks just trying to get it happening but its not at all.

I’m playing on the 12th fret on the bass, tone at zero, and there’s a sub octave from the Shields Blender, normal octave, and another top octave from a Maestro style Black Cat Octave Fuzz. Normally I hate the octave down black keys thing but this is really something different. More Suicide/Oneida/El Dorado era Neil Young

I think part of the issue is that the two pedals I’m using have blend functions. That works great in the room, but I think I need to rig something up where I am balancing different clean or dirty signals from different amps that I can then mix on the board. I’m going to try out a combination of amps as direct bass isn’t really happening in this situation at all, even clean. I can probably try to limit the shit out of the DI so it’s closer to the “clean” sound coming out of the amp, but running the effects into a DI is a 100% no-go. Sounds like garbage.

So maybe setting up multiple amps and careful micing with close and ambient mics will get me somewhere, but I’m so burned out from trying to make it work I started working on something else. Of course when I did I got a regular bass sound I wanted in 5 minutes, but this other thing is going to haunt me.

Maybe try bass —> buffered splitter
Then out to your amp/pedal rig from one side and into a DI on the other?
If a DI sounds too sterile you can always re-amp it or put an amp sim on the channel and dial in an appropriate level of grit without losing whatever it is you're losing.

I was trying to reply to this thread and ended up in C/NC?!

Cross post to make it worse

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:35 pm I found a really fun little mic for not too much money:



I bought it on FM Manny Nieto’s recommendation and it really kills on a bass cabinet paired with other mics. It’s about the price of a pedal and can be used with bass or drums and can be laid on the floor or hung on a mic stand.

I have this batshit crazy bass rig going and this fit in beautifully

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:08 am I was trying to reply to this thread and ended up in C/NC?!

Cross post to make it worse

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:35 pm I found a really fun little mic for not too much money:



I bought it on FM Manny Nieto’s recommendation and it really kills on a bass cabinet paired with other mics. It’s about the price of a pedal and can be used with bass or drums and can be laid on the floor or hung on a mic stand.

I have this batshit crazy bass rig going and this fit in beautifully

Kinda like Sylvia Massy's sm57 in a garden hose trick.