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With so much weight being put on your bass tone and how your rig sits in the mix, it’s important to consider innovative new ways to improve that sound.
Let’s face it – the tone you’re going to get from your pre-production recordings aren’t going to be as great as the ones in the final mix; they don’t need to be. That’s not me saying you should completely disregard your tone either though… You just need to get a solid take with a few additional processing steps to tighten everything up. Here’s what I mean.
You may find that bassists tend to stick to smaller setups that provide consistency and versatility above all else. Here’s why I think that is.
How much of your mixes low end come from the bass guitar track? 50%? 90%? How would you actually measure it?
