Double Tracking Bass?

[chuckerii]

I'm new to the forum... there's some great discussions about producing going on here. I've been reading through the posts on double tracking (and quad tracking as well.) I've been playing and recording guitar for about 30 years now and earlier this year I finally decided to buy my first bass (Epi Goth Thunderbird). I'm curious if you guys also double track bass lines?

Chucker

 

[Torniojaws]

It's a definite no-no. Unlike with guitars, you should copypaste a single bass performance if you wish to process two different tracks, such as clean low frequencies and distorted mid frequencies on the bass.

 

[xFkx]

My experience would be Sansamp RBI + Audix i5 on a 8x10 Cab

Definitly worth the effort


edit: thought you meant something else, yeah.. doubling a performance on a bass guitar would be awkward

 

[siegfried]

I think bass shoud be MONO, so doing wide stereo with it is nonsense.

 

[chuckerii]

Thanks for the replies. I haven't been double tracking bass in the past when I play it on the keyboard via a sampler, but just got curious about with a real bass after reading the other threads about double tracking. It makes sense, because it is more of a solid element like drums, driving the track along.

Chucker

 

[Tuffsnake]

I thought you could pan 2 bass tracks in 20% L R
One clean and the other with a little drive...

How record an overdriven bass sound such as Nightwish's Marco or In Flames?

 

[beyond dead]

^ usually one performance is used, and split to 2 or more tracks via a di or copy + paste in your daw. see the posts above yours

 

[Tuffsnake]

Explain me what is this.

I took this Pro Tools screen from Studio Fredman.

Why is there 2 bass tracks (IN RED)? "BASAMP" and "BASLINE"

 

[The Unavoidable]

One of them is the miced up sound from the amp, the other is a line signal from a DI box. It's still the same performance.

Like you split the signal from the bass to two different sources.

 

[Tuffsnake]

Thank you Unavoidable and beyond dead!

 

[Zack Uidl]

+1 The Unavoidable.

I normally track bass using a DI and Amp that is miced (same performance.) If I am adding overdrive, I tend to like it better on the DI track and not the Amp track

 

[xFkx]

I name my tracks EXACTLY like studio fredman who would have guessed it

 

[D20]

Does anyone know how to setup two tracks of bass in Cubase 4? I have been trying to do this with my sansamp bass di, but haven't had any luck. I am trying to track one track using the output of the di and one track with the parallel output of the di (want to try Ampeg SVX on the parallel track)


If anyone knows how to do this in Cubase 4 I would greatly appreciate it!

 

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

Try doubletracking and see if it works for you, Swedish band Lillasyster does doubletracked bass left/right and guitars mono in the center, sounds pretty cool for their music.

 

[Machinated]

With the lower frequencies, it because hard to percieve where the sound is coming from - thats why bass tracks are generally panned centrally. I'd stick to one performance, and maybe using a blend of tracks to get the tone you need IF you need to.

 

[Full_Tilt]

Hi Chuckerii
Well there's no reason why you cant but its like anything , if its recorded badly its gonna sound so wrong , plus most of the time bass is recorded clean so there's less chance of distortion coming to the rescue and hiding the slightest timing errors.
If you want to give it a go I'd say go for it just so long as you post your results on here

 

[-Noodles-]

Unless you are like Tool, there's no real point in doing it ..

Tool do it because the Bass is tight with the guitars, and then a harmony part will be added by the bass ...

 

[seditz740novaprospect]

i never double track bass. Always use 1 performance, 3 tracks of bass
2 mics
DI
almost always here