How do I record/technical bass (bass recording)

Bass guitar Instrument fills the rhythm section of a song, the bass is very important to all the genre of song, good pop, punk, rock, jazz, funk and so on. Usually there is a supposition? A good bass Sound is mated (nyatu) with the kick drum? How to make it? Or each song genre usually feature characters individually, such as bass sound is round, thick, and others, would be created when mixing?. The Sound will be easy to come by if it starts with a good bass recording techniques.

To get a good bass sound and as dibutukan, the most important thing is the quality of the bass itself, because the resulting sound will come from the original character of the bass, so try on bass in a healthy state, minimal use of the string/new strings (not fals/jarring) and if the active bass should use new batteries. The second thing that equally important is the quality of musicians who play the bass player/, the sound is nice though will not produce a good quality with a bad game. Next is the technique of recording the bass is good, in general there are 3 techniques how to record bass, namely: in the (direct/indirect), using a microphone (todong AMPS), or a combination of both.

Direct Injection or Direct Input
Direct Injection or often abbreviated with direct plug in is a technique, or in the recording was recorded directly. This technique means that the cable is plugged in is your bass connected with in the box (the box) and in the box connected to the soundcard. This is highly recommended if you're a passive type of bass, and also used in box, you can also replace it with a pre-amp before entry to the soundcard.

The advantage of Recording direct is you will get a clean sound from your bass record. And as long as the quality is good and the bass games musisinya is also good, you will get the recorded sound can be easily edited and dicompress, in equalizing later.

Recording using the Microphone (todong)
Most engineers prefer the bass amplifier using the recording instead of using it on. Recording using the microphone commonly known by the term todong mic, how the plug to amplifier bass bass (such as during exercise/gig), and then in front of the amplifier cabinet placed microphone (usually using a dynamic microphone), and then the microphone is connected to the soundcard. The sound from the microphone that will be recorded into DAW.

The advantage of the technique is to get a todong sound that is already compressed naturally by the amplifier speakers, in addition to not only get the bass character, but the character of the amplifier, which is obviously the characters will be hard to come by using virtual amplifier in the DAW.

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