Technical Editor, Sound On Sound...
(But generally posting my own personal views and not necessarily those of SOS, the company or the magazine!)
In my world, things get less strange when I read the manual...
The reason for asking was just to have a technical option.
I'm thinking on starting to offer as a session bass player and I want to be sure I'm can delivering a close to studio audio quality wav
Thanks for you feedback
Assuming your bass signal is peaking up to somewhere between -10dBFS and -20dBFS I don't see a problem. If the bass is only peaking -80dBFS there is a problem...
Technical Editor, Sound On Sound...
(But generally posting my own personal views and not necessarily those of SOS, the company or the magazine!)
In my world, things get less strange when I read the manual...
If I was looking for a session bass and I had to choose between something that sounded like Billy Sheehan on fire but with a bit of recording noise, or Joe from the band down the pub tracked at Air Studios on the quietest signal chain known to man, I know what I'd be choosing.
Some numbers: I plugged my rubbish Hondo bass into my MOTU M 4 and set gain for -20dBFS peaking to -10ish. I then stopped playing and oriented the bass for least noise pickup. Reading was a 'blippy' -66dBFS.
Chopped off the noodling part and just exported the noise to Right Mark Anny and the mid band level was -126dB but with a whopping 50Hz peak at -90dB, there was another lesser peak at 150Hz.
Certainly a better quality bass should be less noisy but I doubt even the best rig will get below -75dBFS and keep away from big transformers!
