CraigyJ

Some more good info...thanks guys. After 20 odd years of playing guitar it's weird knowing nothing about an instument...I'm usually giving out advice in the guitar forums but I must confess I know nothing about bass..!! I think from what you guys have said a decent pick up and a good set of strings would be the first thing to try. Being a guitarist a new set of strings is even alien to me...I will often leave a set of strings on a guitar for a year or so...but it would seem with a bass they fade very quickly...something I didn't know...!! I think this P bass clone will be ok with some new pups and strings and a decent set up...I have to say for £110 the build quality is actually really good...!! CraigyJ...

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1332147966' post='1583774'] You can get a real warwick for that second hand... [/quote] Good call...hadn't considered second hand but I guess that would get me the best bass for the money...!! [quote name='redstriper' timestamp='1332163687' post='1584065'] what kind of bass are you using? sorry if you've already said. [/quote] I'm using a P bass clone...only cost £110 new so was never expecting much...but now I'm getting a lot better at mixing it really isn't up to the job..!! [quote name='Lewk' timestamp='1332166345' post='1584119'] a musicman sub.. great on a budget and versatile.. [/quote] Will check it out...thanks... CraigyJ...

[quote name='51m0n' timestamp='1332088224' post='1582997'] You cant polish a turd..... [/quote] Absolutely agree...!! And setup is most likely doing nothing to help as well. This bass came so badly set up that I had to shift some of the saddles by about 10mm just to get the intonation in...In all likelyhood the string heights are way out and it should really go for a proper set up. I know from 20 something years of guitar playing that muddy horrible mush from the lower end of the instrument is usually from pants pick ups... So I guess my question is now...do I spend £60 on a decent set of Seymore Dunkan pups and sent the old girl for a set up...or do I cut my losses and go for a higher quality new bass... I saw a really nice looking bass today for £400...looked like a Warwick rip off...was nice tho...have to decide which option I'll go for... CraigyJ...

Many thanks for all the advice guys... All makes sense. Think I will go the way of fitting a decent pup and ditching amplitube for the bass track and see how that goes. I think I'm doing most other things pretty much ok...I run high pass filters on all other tracks, guitars, synth etc to make sure there is nothing fighting the bass for space. The biggest problem I've had is that anything played on the low e is really muddy...the other strings sit in the mix fairly well but that low e is just so boomy...by the time I've taken all the boomy frequncies out there is nothing left. Hopefully a decent pup and a new set of stings will help...!! CraigyJ...

Hi guys... Looking some advice and this seems to be the best place to find it...!! Will give you a quick run down of my situation and hopefully you will be able to see where I'm coming from... I'm primarily a guitarist and I write and record different styles of music from blues to rock and folk and anything inbetween. I record my guitars directly into a DAW using Amplitube for my tones. I also record bass this way. I have a good quality sound card with a guitar impedance input which I can also plug my bass into. I have a really cheap and nasty bass which I just bought because I wanted live bass rather than anything digitally generated. I run my bass into Amplitube's Ampeg amp sim. My problem is that no matter how I EQ my bass tracks they will never sit in a mix...I'm 99% certain this is due to the limitations of the bass its self...it was like £110 new...!! It was Ok for a while but now I've out grown it...I need something of a decent quality to record with...!!! I just wondered if you guys had any suggestions as to what bass I should be looking at for recording purposes...it would never be used live...and I'm wondering if anyone would choose a certain typre of bass for recording work as opposed to live work...??? I will be looking at a budget of £400+ Any info would be greatly appreciated...I know guitars very well...but when it comes to basses I am green as hell... And interestingly enough I can make a crap guitar sound good...but I can't make a crap bass sound good...and crappy bass throws the whole mix out...!! CraigyJ...