Exocaster
Nozzle
- Aug 29, 2005
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When you guys put the bass through guitar amps do you high pass the di before sending it out?
Absolutely not. Part of the whole point of sending the bass through a guitar amp is that the gear is sorta highpassing the thing to begin with; by its nature it's gonna be focused on the mids/top of the bass. Sometimes the guitar rig is there on the way in anyhow with whatever acting as a splitter before the amps- even just a tuner works; anything to split the signal.
Part of it too is not over-intellectualizing it or trying to fit it in a system of how one has to do things; I'm not running into a guitar amp because frequencies over, say, 200hz are useful running into a guitar amp, it's because the bass as a whole has a badass distorted tone running into said amp; blend to taste with something that has more bottom. As much as it's recieved wisdom, I don't care for the sound of DI bass at all, especially not for the low end. On the off chance I use a clean DI track for anything, it's for top; a proper bass rig has much more authoritative lows to my ears. Yeah, heresy, I know. Do what sounds right. Plug the bass into guitar gear. Does it sound cool? If so, use it. There are no rules.