cloud mountains
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I'm a guitar player who loves to play bass on my own recordings. But I've got one problem that I just can't seem to solve.
My low 'E' string always dominates when I record. Anything played on the 'E' string is so deep and powerful that during mastering I have to turn the bass track down like 9 db just to keep the thump from the E string from over-powering the rest of the recording. All the notes from the A,D and G strings then get lost, which totally defeats all the main and harmony notes I play on those 3 strings. Not being an experienced bass player, what am I doing wrong? I really want all 4 strings to be equal in volume.
I use a preset I downloaded from this forum called Basic Bass.syx, and I can't find the post using 'Search' as I would love to ask the guy who posted it. It is really a beautiful sounding preset on the AXE FX III - - but my problem occurred BEFORE and AFTER I downloaded this preset. Even WITH the preset, my problem is still as described above. So there must be something I don't understand about the Bass guitar.
On my Fender Elite Jazz Bass guitar, my knob settings are
Volume 10 (max)
Pan 5
Treble 7
Bass 6
Midrange 6 (as I type this, I wonder if this is a problem?)
And I use the Active switch for Rock, Fusion, etc. and Passive for softer songs. I go straight into the AXE FX III and then into my Babyface Pro computer interface and straight into Pro Tools with no extra signal processing at all.
Anybody know where I'm going wrong?
My low 'E' string always dominates when I record. Anything played on the 'E' string is so deep and powerful that during mastering I have to turn the bass track down like 9 db just to keep the thump from the E string from over-powering the rest of the recording. All the notes from the A,D and G strings then get lost, which totally defeats all the main and harmony notes I play on those 3 strings. Not being an experienced bass player, what am I doing wrong? I really want all 4 strings to be equal in volume.
I use a preset I downloaded from this forum called Basic Bass.syx, and I can't find the post using 'Search' as I would love to ask the guy who posted it. It is really a beautiful sounding preset on the AXE FX III - - but my problem occurred BEFORE and AFTER I downloaded this preset. Even WITH the preset, my problem is still as described above. So there must be something I don't understand about the Bass guitar.
On my Fender Elite Jazz Bass guitar, my knob settings are
Volume 10 (max)
Pan 5
Treble 7
Bass 6
Midrange 6 (as I type this, I wonder if this is a problem?)
And I use the Active switch for Rock, Fusion, etc. and Passive for softer songs. I go straight into the AXE FX III and then into my Babyface Pro computer interface and straight into Pro Tools with no extra signal processing at all.
Anybody know where I'm going wrong?