Originally Posted By: KGU 2
Hey all,

I'm reminded today of posting my demo on a forum sometime back: the listener said my bass sounded weak. { working with standard biab real tracks, mainly, to my DAW. }
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For VideoTrack - he stated RT's, not MIDI
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I'd forgotten about that till recently, when I started
doubling the bass tracks exported from biab to my DAW.
I even boosted the EQ on these duplicated tracks. Why? weak bass. Result, better but still - ho hum.
Sometimes it is better to cut certain frequencies than continue to boost, but that doesn't appear to be your true issue hear. (spelling not intentional but I decided to leave it <grin>)
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today I recorded on some external budget recorders, and
was shocked: the bass tracks sounded FULL - like real
electric bass! Something my ears have not been hearing.

I'm not talking about speaker/ headphone issues - these signals are coming 100 percent direct from biab to my DAW.

Now we're getting to the crux.
What DAW did you use initially? It occurs to me going from BB to DAW is a digital conversion. Did the external recorder involve transforming digital to audio before getting recorded?
Just wondering if how your particular DAW is converting the WMA files may be part of the issue.

FWIW, (and this may sound weird) sometimes cutting around 100HZ and boosting 2 kHZ can make a bass stand out. One of my favorite sayings from our long absent friend Mac was that, when solo'd, 'a bass track should sound like someone is working on an old Buick'. The higher frequencies a bass produces adds a lot to how we perceive it and also adds character.

As for differences in the recordings; I'm pretty sure PGMusic isn't present when a lot of these RTs are created, so individual artists' recordings are what they have to work with. They do the magical slicing/dicing, but that actual recordings, as far as I know, are pretty much something they receive from elsewhere. Example - somewhere around here is video of Bret Mason recording some RTs. Something in that video explanation implied the above to me.
Add to that each RT is created for a given style; some styles are more bass heavy than others, and handled to work well with the other RTs in that original style..

Last edited by rharv; 05/20/20 05:37 AM.
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