NOt the bass track, I mean the actual bass guitar.
My bassist just came round to try to track some bass for the album with his new Ernie Ball Music Man, and I noticed it has this horrible high end peaking/popping. This isn't just on his DI tracks, I mean even just listening to him play, it's something inherently wrong with the bass guitar itself.
I've tried all the obvious stuff, all the onboard EQ is neautral, pickup is sat quite nicely in the body of the guitar, not too close to the strings (I thought the strings were making contact with the pickup at first, because that's what it sounds like, but they're not at all), all connections are fine.
Anybody got any suggestions? He has another bass we can use but this one just sounds insane, so I'd prefer not to.
My bassist just came round to try to track some bass for the album with his new Ernie Ball Music Man, and I noticed it has this horrible high end peaking/popping. This isn't just on his DI tracks, I mean even just listening to him play, it's something inherently wrong with the bass guitar itself.
I've tried all the obvious stuff, all the onboard EQ is neautral, pickup is sat quite nicely in the body of the guitar, not too close to the strings (I thought the strings were making contact with the pickup at first, because that's what it sounds like, but they're not at all), all connections are fine.
Anybody got any suggestions? He has another bass we can use but this one just sounds insane, so I'd prefer not to.