bajistaman Posted March 16, 2011 Share Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) Hi, I'm just starting to record my bass lines in my laptop and I've seen a certain tendecy in my recordings, the wave form is more accute when going down than up. I'm just wondering if this is expected for a bass guitar wave form because when looking at the guitar recording looks to me as more balanced. It might be that my audio interface is not working properly or just that I'm looking for an excuse for my bad playing :-) I've included a image of the wave form. BTW I'm using Cubase Essential 5 with a M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface, this is on Windows 7 64. Thanks! Johann [attachment=74948:BassWave.jpg] Edited March 19, 2011 by bajistaman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bajistaman Posted March 19, 2011 Author Share Posted March 19, 2011 Some information I've found so far, BTW is called "asymmetrical waveforms": "DI's Bass guitars can produce asymmetrical waveforms because -while the string itself may vibrate symmetrically- the pickup will likely have a tendency to see the 'nearer' pole of the wave strongly than the 'further' pole, as a result of diminishing magnetic field strength with distance. -Pickups closer to the strings would be expected to exhibit this characteristic rather more than pickups mounted lower (and thus further away from) the strings." [url="http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/505153-why-some-audio-waveforms-totally-asymmetrical-zero-crossing.html"]http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-...o-crossing.html[/url] [url="http://www.prodigy-pro.com/diy/index.php?topic=33018.0"]http://www.prodigy-pro.com/diy/index.php?topic=33018.0[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 Yep i think it's a normal thing to have with a bass guitar and in some ways contributes to the tone of the instrument. It does vary from bass to bass though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardHimself Posted March 19, 2011 Share Posted March 19, 2011 [quote name='Johnston' post='1168681' date='Mar 19 2011, 07:33 PM']My rag tag set up shows the same tendency. Albeit the opposite way about.[/quote] click on the "phase invert" button then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bajistaman Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Cheers, I can now get back to the recording :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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