greghagger Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Recording yourself is one of the best ways to get an honest review of how you are progressing with your playing. This can just be audio or you can include video if you want a visual to get feedback on your technique or playing posture. It's also very common to record songs and albums at home nowadays and it's getting much cheaper to do this. I now record remote sessions for artists all over the world without even leaving The Shed! You don't need to have a pro recording setup like me and it's now very easy to get together your own recording setup without breaking the bank. You just need an audio interface and some recording software and you can get a really good quality recording from your bass. The technical side of building a decent recording setup at home isn't hard, as long as you understand a few simple steps so I've made a YouTube video to show you how to do this. I’ve also made up a list of reasonably priced audio interfaces and recording software (DAWs) which you’ll find a link for under the video. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkgod Posted April 6 Share Posted April 6 good shout, it is indeed so cheap now days to get good results from stupidly cheap gear and even free software like reaper with free plugins. also the second hand market is just littered with interfaces, as people are always upgrading, so don't be afraid of using older gear, ( newer gear is NOT always better) im still using stuff over 20 years old ( some of it is over 40 years old) with very good results, so ignor all the gear snobs, just get something that gets you going. best bit of advice i can give is...... what ever you use to put your daw on, via laptop or pc, just use it for music production, no internet or anything else and switch everything else off on it you don't need, so you have not got loads of unnecessary processes going on in the background that will suck on your process and ram power. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greghagger Posted April 7 Author Share Posted April 7 18 hours ago, funkgod said: good shout, it is indeed so cheap now days to get good results from stupidly cheap gear and even free software like reaper with free plugins. also the second hand market is just littered with interfaces, as people are always upgrading, so don't be afraid of using older gear, ( newer gear is NOT always better) im still using stuff over 20 years old ( some of it is over 40 years old) with very good results, so ignor all the gear snobs, just get something that gets you going. best bit of advice i can give is...... what ever you use to put your daw on, via laptop or pc, just use it for music production, no internet or anything else and switch everything else off on it you don't need, so you have not got loads of unnecessary processes going on in the background that will suck on your process and ram power. @funkgod Good advice about secondhand gear and keeping your device for music only 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 It might be worth mentioning that many multi-effects units have a built-in audio interface so you don't need a separate device for recording. I do all my recording using the Line6 Helix which has options for outputting the processed and direct sound via separate channels. This allows me to monitor (and record if I want) the processed sound while also recording the direct sound which I can then process later using either the Helix Native plug-in or any other effects in my DAW. Then I can tweak the sound to fit better into the track without being stuck with the original sound or needing to re-record if I want a different sound. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_dinger Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 On 06/01/2024 at 18:40, greghagger said: Recording yourself is one of the best ways to get an honest review of how you are progressing with your playing. I recorded myself once. It was pretty dire - elastic timing, uneven volume, poor tone. Sadly, that was all down to me, and not the software. So, I guess that I got the honest review that @greghagger predicted! I will record myself again, therefore, and seek to improve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greghagger Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 On 07/04/2024 at 20:54, bass_dinger said: I recorded myself once. It was pretty dire - elastic timing, uneven volume, poor tone. Sadly, that was all down to me, and not the software. So, I guess that I got the honest review that @greghagger predicted! I will record myself again, therefore, and seek to improve. @bass_dinger you’ll improves quickly with more recording. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pea Turgh Posted June 3 Share Posted June 3 Cheapest I ever did was plug straight in to the 1/4” mic input on a cassette deck I was given. Just had to pay for cassettes! Used to record all my riffs when I started playing. Tomorrow’s mission - find those tapes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greghagger Posted June 4 Author Share Posted June 4 17 hours ago, Pea Turgh said: Cheapest I ever did was plug straight in to the 1/4” mic input on a cassette deck I was given. Just had to pay for cassettes! Used to record all my riffs when I started playing. Tomorrow’s mission - find those tapes! I had a 1/4” Jack wired into my record player for my bass! I wish I had kept some of my band jam cassette from the late 80’s! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfram Posted June 5 Share Posted June 5 On 03/06/2024 at 20:23, Pea Turgh said: Cheapest I ever did was plug straight in to the 1/4” mic input on a cassette deck I was given. Just had to pay for cassettes! Used to record all my riffs when I started playing. Tomorrow’s mission - find those tapes! Yup, when I first started age 14 I couldn't afford a mixer or multitrack. I had two Sony Walkman, one with record facility. I'd solder together cables in various configurations to mix sources together with the output from one deck, play from that deck and record the combination to the second. Of course, any mistake and it was right back to the beginning to do the whole dub over... I have many, many tapes full of half-songs cut off abruptly at a fluff. How far we have come! Although strangely, some of those old recordings really sound pretty good! Plenty of analog warmth 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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