Recording Bass Guitar
An effective way to record bass guitars is by placing the microphone at just in front of the speaker cone. An advantage of this is it captures any the modulations of signal produced by the amp, suchas equalisation, compression and preset effects built into the amplifier. A disadvantage though is that if the jack cable is not tightly plugged into the amp and moves out of the amp this can cause electric a/c noise which in most cases is not wanted. A potential disadvantage of this technique is that the direct input DI of the electric instrument isn’t recorded and therefor this sound cannot be edited in the mixing stage in a daw like logic, though conversly the performer will usually want to hear the effect of amplification whilst playing and will hopefully will cause a better performance. For this session we overdubbed an descending scale intro we felt necessary for the transition from the intro/bridge to verse.