177- Record your bass (at home) and get a BADASS sound ($100 - $20K)
The SBL Podcast
Scott's Bass Lessons
4.8 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So let's say you're trying to record your base. |
| 0:03.2 | Right. You have to record your base all the time. And so do I. And I think that we take it for granted. I think that we've done it so much that we're like, oh, this is easy to do. Of course you have this stuff lying around. And of course, it's just plug and play. Yeah. You know what an interface is. You know what a preamp is. You know what XLR means. But a lot of people, I'm surprised. And we were talking about this before we hit record that people will DM us with questions that are very basic, which of course, right? Because you don't know what you don't know. Yeah. And they ask us questions. You learn like first grade. All right, kids. This is how you record your base. They should though, right? They should teach this in elementary. Like let's get you into a daw very early children and we're going to learn like pro tools versus logic. Let's talk about it. Fourth grade, let's talk about it. |
| 0:56.4 | Obviously, Ableton. |
| 0:59.0 | Ableton, yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | It doesn't happen though, right? |
| 1:02.7 | No. |
| 1:03.4 | So that's why we're here. |
| 1:05.4 | And we are going to try to not speak. |
| 1:09.5 | Both of us are going to try to be audience advocates. |
| 1:12.7 | And if somebody says something that we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. |
| 1:15.9 | If you're not in this world, what does this mean? |
| 1:18.3 | So welcome to the SBL podcast, y'all. |
| 1:21.2 | Welcome. |
| 1:22.3 | And we're going to break down how to get a great sound on your bass. |
| 1:28.3 | And we're also going to talk to a bit near the end about mics as well. |
| 1:32.3 | Because in this age of maybe recording content, |
| 1:36.3 | doing podcasts, |
| 1:38.3 | Zoom calls, lessons, where you need to be able to speak |
| 1:43.3 | as well as have your bass going through some kind of |
| 1:48.0 | interface being recorded. This can be a really tricky component. There's so many options. Like if |
| 1:56.8 | you've just been focused on bass stuff, then when you throw microphone into the mix, |
| 2:01.5 | sometimes people are like, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait, what? |
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