Studio Tips with Ronan Chris Murphy - Bass

Producer-mixer Ronan Chris Murphy reveals the secrets of bass recording that he uses on world-class bassists including Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel). As you'll see, Ronan's main bass sound comes from the A Designs Audio REDDI Tube Direct Box (http://ow.ly/1QKuF) and the Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI ( http://ow.ly/1QKvg). But that's not all—you'll also learn how Ronan adds extra "character" to bass.

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[TheAdamWallace]

The bass tone is awesome with this combo! Very great sound to make sit in a mix nicely. To the people who said it sounds bad...you don't understand the sound structure of a bass guitar in a thick mix. This is the type of sound you need to get low end, while avoiding low end mud. Also, the high end produced by the Sans Amp will get the notes to cut through.

[princeperry65]

Awesome video. The bass has a nice "hole" in it for the other instrumentation to fit. Chris' videos are always full of useful, real-world info.

[surrealdirector]

He says the REDDI DI has a relatively hot output, so he feeds it into his Distressor compressor. Other DI units usually go into a preamp.

[surrealdirector]

I think that DI box actually is a type of 'preamp', which can be fed into your A/D converter.

[ashzombie13]

It might sound really nooby. But are you supposed to connect the DI box to your pre-amp?(Not talking about this video, but in general_

[PatDONeil]

He really helped record Tay Zonday?  Sweet.

[omgitsaoe]

Hey thanks for the videos by the way. I'm a newbie so I did learn some things.

If you like metal check out the album I produced for my band on youtube - Descendant

[bonzelite]

@stexnookie yes it is a Music Man, more probably a Stingray as the beveled edges on the body give it away.

[JedidudeWizardgirl]

5 americans musta disliked this

[CrunchyBaysse]

Man I like this idea, I think the sound is great, but I really hate the tone on this video, I'm more of a fan of the natural bass sound mixed with a bit a mix cutting character, still this was awesome

[stexnookie]

what bass is that? looks like some sort of musicman?

[scarred2112]

A very cool, but not at all a "new" idea, either tracking a clean & dirty setup or stacking gain stages with multiple Overdrives/Distortions . I've moved onto a 3 track setup of a pre-preamp D.I. Ultra-Clean track, a post-EQ clean track, and a post-EQ & post-Effects track, with either of the last two straight to the board or to a miked amp and submix the tracks. If anything, I'm surprised how crappy he managed to get a Music Man BFR Dargie Delight II Sterling 5 to sound...