Recording bass guitar

[Uncle Junior]

Wsap metallions.

Ok, I'm recording bass and I have a problem.

I have a quick gallop part with the guitars in my song, but I can play them easily on guitar. It's similar to this gallop

It starts at 0:30!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dWVhcj9Vk&feature=related[/ame]




When I record bass, I can play that fast too, but my DI track sound like IT'S NOT playing gallop....just some ding ding ding ding same notes

Anyway I have a fender with active emg and I play with a pick, 'cause I play guitar mostly, so pick it is.

Anyone knows how to get rid of this problem?

 

[gabriel g.]

just play the 8th

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, much better to just play the 8th, no one will be able to tell you didn't play the gallop and it'll sound much cleaner!

 

[crosstalk]

+1 on playing the 8th. This fills it out and keeps it tight. The guitars and/or kick keep the gallop going.

I hate when bass players try to play three finger gallops and what not and its just a sloppy, muddy mess.

 

[DanLights]

It has to be a problem with your playing, not trying to say you´re bad or anything (I couldn´t even know that) but you mention you´re mainly a guitar player, and in the execution aspect both instruments can be very different. I have been told by my girlfriend a million times I´m very sloppy as a guitar player, whereas she totally respects me as a bass player (she´s a guitarrist), it´s just difference of style. By playing with a pick you should have no problem defining the gallops, so it has to be your playing. Do what the others say, no one will notice and will still fill up the low end just as well, at such speeds bass trills are not a total necesity, could muddy it up actually sometimes.

 

[DanLights]

+1 on playing the 8th. This fills it out and keeps it tight. The guitars and/or kick keep the gallop going.

I hate when bass players try to play three finger gallops and what not and its just a sloppy, muddy mess.

i hate three-finger gallops, as a kid I grew up adoring steve harris and always thought two fingers was the only way to go, so i developed a pretty decent stamina and speed for doing gallops with two fingers. If it´s a very long and tiring gallop passage, I will most likely use my pick as it´s less tiring (I always wear a thumb pick while playing with fingers, sometimes do some arpegios in my death/grind band and it proves useful to make the arpegios cut through the mix and not wreck my thumb in the process)