Next came the bass guitar. We ensured the bass was tuned and set up the amp. We used a DI box, coupled with a beyerdynamic m201. The condenser meant we were able to capture a lot of the low end information, whilst attempting to capture some of the character of the bass through the amp. We also used the DI in order to get a clean, full frequency take of the bass. We used a hardware rack compressor, the drawmer, on the DI with the ratio set to 5:1.
We checked our levels and set to record. the takes were mostly good, we had to drop in on pro tools in a few places in order to correct minor mistakes. Overall the tone was great, we ended up with a great bass sound.