Sleep Easy - Bass ReAmp

I’ve been working on a remixing songs that I provided multi-tracks for and this was the first one I started with. Opening up the files I realized I only recorded a DI bass and wanted to apply the bass recording techniques I use currently for more heavy songs. I think there is still a lot of low end to be gained by having a real amp for bass. Plenty of people do it all DI, good on you, I hate myself more than you and go through this process.

Besides the mic placements, the selection of signals is completely based on an email we received from Jason Livermore back when we were recording at my parents house. Jason told us he used a bass amp, a guitar amp, a capture from the distortion pedal, and a clean DI. At the time I had no idea what most of that was and knew nothing about getting any of those in phase. That began the journey to here.

The bass performance was captured DI then edited and Melodyned. For the reamp capture. I’ve got the u47 up as the prominent mic on the bass cab about a foot and some change off of the grill and dead center of all four speakers. I have the Telefunken m80 on the dullest sounding speaker in the cab slightly off the center of the cone. This mic is bright and is meant to capture lots of top mid range. One pass is done with the Ampeg SVT with a blended amount of Sansamp. The next pass was the Divived by 13 with the 5150 pedal. The Last pass was just the Sansamp. The pedal was completely wet with pretty drastic settings to blend into the amp signals later.

Once the capture was complete I applied Auto-Align to all the signals to get them in phase. From there all the signals were mixed to taste and summed. The sum was sent to SSL EQ and then hit the Dangerous BAX for additional HPF and LPF as well as high and low boosts. Finally it went to the Standard Audio Stretch for some I don’t know really know what it’s doing low end magic.