How To Record Bass On ANY Budget

Here's everything you need to know about recording at home, no matter what your budget is! Get all my tips on plugins, tone and recording techniques here: / charlesberthoud
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[@BassCampOfficial]

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[@CharlesBerthoud]

I've seen this guy's studio and let me tell you - he knows how to RECORD 🔥

[@sahamal_savu]

Lol 😆 By the way, nice choice in studio monitors, I have the same pair 👍

[@Nirav_2343]

i dont have a guitar or a bank account

[@tolabassist3302]

It's cool but not as good as yours🙃

[@user-gh9iw1of2y]

I've seen this guy's dance moves and let me tell you - he knows how to MOONWALK. 🔥 I've seen this guy's cat videos and let me tell you - he knows how to MEOW. 🔥 I've seen this guy's cooking show and let me tell you - he knows how to BURN TOAST. 🔥 I've seen this guy's karaoke night and let me tell you - he knows how to SHATTER GLASS. 🔥 I've seen this guy's gardening tips and let me tell you - he knows how to KILL A CACTUS. 🔥 I've seen this guy's skateboarding tricks and let me tell you - he knows how to FACEPLANT. 🔥 I've seen this guy's magic show and let me tell you - he knows how to DISAPPEAR HIS AUDIENCE. 🔥 I've seen this guy's workout routine and let me tell you - he knows how to LIFT A DONUT. 🔥 I've seen this guy's fashion sense and let me tell you - he knows how to MISMATCH SOCKS. 🔥 I've seen this guy's driving skills and let me tell you - he knows how to HIT EVERY POTHOLE. 🔥 I've seen this guy's DIY projects and let me tell you - he knows how to GLUE HIMSELF TO THINGS. 🔥 I've seen this guy's fishing trips and let me tell you - he knows how to CATCH SEAWEED. 🔥 I've seen this guy's yoga poses and let me tell you - he knows how to NAP ON A MAT. 🔥 I've seen this guy's camping adventures and let me tell you - he knows how to ATTRACT MOSQUITOES. 🔥 I've seen this guy's photography portfolio and let me tell you - he knows how to CAPTURE BLURRY SHOTS. 🔥 I've seen this guy's knitting patterns and let me tell you - he knows how to MAKE TANGLED YARN. 🔥 I've seen this guy's party planning and let me tell you - he knows how to RUN OUT OF ICE. 🔥 I've seen this guy's public speaking and let me tell you - he knows how to UM AND UH. 🔥 I've seen this guy's online dating profile and let me tell you - he knows how to USE TOO MANY EMOJIS. 🔥 I've seen this guy's painting sessions and let me tell you - he knows how to SPLATTER PAINT EVERYWHERE. 🔥

[@Tekkerue]

Reaper is an incredible DAW. I switched to Reaper after about 18 years of using Samplitude and I love it.

[@byebyeqi]

God bless my older brother, who just happens to be a music producer, that sneakily convinced my father to buy all this stuff throughout the years! Just need to download the programs! And use his stuff when he isn't around.

[@Orkruk]

Thanks for the video Charles! I was looking for a way to record my bass to friends this really helped!

[@BassCampOfficial]

Awesome, glad I could help you out!!

[@renawayy]

coming in with the videos just when i needed it ! was trying to figure out what audio interface to get to start recording bass ! thanks charles !

[@blackswandominiscis7715]

Cristal clear video. Thanks a lot !

[@TLguitar]

I'd also say REAPER is a very good DAW which basically provides all capabilities and goes for $60 for the individual/small-scale business license (and frankly it lets you keep using it past the trial period even if you don't buy the license). And RME (Babyface Pro) is another good option for a high end interface. Beyond the hardware itself the company is known for its extremely well made drivers that provide perhaps the lowest possible round-trip latency on a PC.

[@tubadude07]

Reaper is great!

[@TLguitar]

@@tubadude07 Yup, and they keep it well updated. I don't use Mac, but in some video that showed on my feed the performances of the M1, M2 and M3 chips were compared with different DAWs and while the pricier Apple-specific Logic Pro didn't use the efficiency cores at all (and on the M3 there are more of those instead of performance cores, so the performance actually lowered) REAPER was able to utilize everything.

[@hellhammer1423]

Thank you Charles, great video. In terms of DAW I've been using reaper for years, and that is very impressive. And as far as clipping is concerned, I've purchased the Zoom UAC 232, a 32-bit float audio interface, for a price equivalent to that of the scarlett focusrite 2i2, and I've solved the problem forever. And since equalizing is one of the most difficult problem to solve, I've also purchased Gullfoss eq plugin (which is not that cheap, but it's worth buying), which basically does the vast majority of the eq job by itself with a very comprehensive interface. Those are the three main valuable things (together with my bass and a good compressor vst) I use, together with many others things that might change from time to time. Not wanting to be a producer but wanting to remain a simple bass player with the goal of independently recording my own music, I have found that certain technologies are crucial to producing music that is also worth listening to from a quality perspective.

[@Threlgar]

Well Done vid with clarity & concise explanations!! Thank You!!

[@charuan12]

this is just what I needed, thanks.

[@alexander-baxter]

Keen to hear about filming yourself while you play as an addition to recording. Thanks!

[@lewis2207]

Charles, Please make a follow up lesson to this on how to match the recorded audio with a basic iPhone or GoPro video as well. I’m sure many of us that currently don’t know how to do this would appreciate the advice. Thanks you!

[@NoahKlatt]

GoPro?? 😧

[@dariusbass]

Started recording and uploading to yt to document my bass progress 8 months ago. If only i had this video back then😅 . anyway man this channel is a gem. every video helps a lot! keep it up ❤

[@popandajp]

Hi Charles, this is a great video, I have a little experience recording but nothing near as professional as your content. This was fun to watch even though it's just an introduction. I'd love to see u guiding us through a whole recording and editing process of your playing, maybe that's on patron and I apologize for asking for it on here, but anyways, thank u so much for the knowledge you're sharing and for directly helping me out with my playing, you're such an inspiration as a musician, as an educator and as wholesome person. Happy year

[@JustThatGuyCaleb]

Basscamp please make a video on beginning bass songs and chords 🙏

[@1234drums]

Thank you, Charles 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@timiligamer6886]

Ohhhh nice i really need this

[@M2Mil7er]

If you haven't bought an interface yet, some come bundled with a 'lite' version of Cubase or Ableton Live, which takes care of 2 things at once!

[@Rosie.Kawaii]

Do you think you'd be able to make a video on what you should focus on learning bass as a beginner?

[@LordEradicus]

Waayyy back when I was in college radio, digital was just breaking on the horizon, so I had to do things "the old way" with all analog equipment in the studio. I remember recording and mixing tracks on tape machines that I had to physically cut and splice together. You can now do in minutes what took me hours to do back then...😄

[@EpicBassTime_]

Please make more lessons- they’re all so great

[@tubadude07]

I love my Behringer Phoria, does the job well.

[@Enduro1470]

The second background music is called ''Enchanted Night'' by Charles Berthoud. I heard it was like a remix of the one you recorded 8 years ago! I just can't wait to post a video with it, Charles! 🤗

[@ZakAndrews]

I've been recording myself for a while now, but haven't really worked on quality until recently and have a question. I have a pre-amp, and an eq plugin. Should i set the knobs on the bass to flat and use the daw eq, turn off the pre-amp altogether, or use the pre-amp eq settings and set the eq in my daw to flat? Any suggestions? Thanks!

[@Marcipu]

I was looking for a DAW for a poor man's 0$ budget and found this one called Cakewalk. It served me quite well so far... Keep up the great work Charles.

[@strepto42]

+1 cakewalk. It used to cost money but it's now freeeeee and works very well. I recorded a whole album for my band with it. It even comes with a bunch of stock plugins to do useful stuff like compression, eq, reverb, etc.

[@getsideways7257]

@@strepto42 Holy cow... Cakewalk is free now??? That's amazing news

[@strepto42]

@@getsideways7257 yeah has been for some years - a company called Bandlab bought it and just released it for free!

[@johnh1824]

Great tips 😊 if you've got a multi effects pedal then check your outputs. Lots have usb connections that you can run straight to your laptop.

[@iloveska1]

I used to use an old boss 8 track recording mixer with big floppy disks, but my wife upgraded me to a Steinberg interface with Cubase software, but it's so complicated and the audio setup for the computer speakers and sound was constantly troublesome. So even though I have equipment, I never record anymore. Sad. I know.

[@sahamal_savu]

I had no issues with my Steinberg audio interface. Big floppy disks sound awful 😆

[@thierry18]

Some multi-fx pedals also have the ability to record via their own unique drivers without an interface. The zoom b2 four is a great example of this

[@LeFingal]

Today will be a good day! Today ill go to a guitar shop with my fretless, take off the flatwounds, oil the neck, put on tapewound, take the flatwound and put on my P-bass with frets =) I have a beginner P-bass from gear4music (chicago bass) and i love it. It's cheap and reliable. I also have a Mexican made, Fender Player Jazz bass fretless which i just bought, but not played much on it yet because i want that guitar maker to set it up properly with the knobs being lowered and give some TLC to give the bass the sound i want.

[@zeenedin9013]

Hi Charles, what strings do you use? I also have another question. I want to finally learn how to tap on the bass. I ordered a new bass (also a neck-through body) and paid for services like intonation, action adjustment etc. And yet I still have that stupid "double sound" when I tap higher notes on the fretboard (basically around 12th fret and higher). So I wanted to ask if you could make a video about how you set up your neck and action, especially for tapping. I would really appreciate that.

[@ondinnonk]

What are your thoughts (Charles or community) on Reaper DAW?

[@filippo7349]

Hi! I'm quite into recording, but when I record the bass guitar it makes a "stepping" sound while plucking with fingers... Is it normal or is it something wrong with my articulation or so?

[@LeFingal]

I'm buying Focusrite Scarlett Solo studio, heard it is a pretty good card for both professionals as for intermediates

[@alexanderbrobston1590]

Reaper is the best value DAW

[@NoPlaceForTheDead]

Reaper for DAW.

[@blousug]

I bought entry level headphones, speakers, mics, audio interface and use GarageBand. Eventually I would like to buy and learn Logic. The first thing I would like to upgrade is my speakers to some HS 5s or KRKs. It does take some time to figure out what you like and how to use it.

[@Traumglanz]

No Reaper love? ;-)

[@extraclone]

Literally one of the cheapest DAWs that is just as powerful as mainline ones fr fr

[@sahamal_savu]

I actually posted a comment on this video mentioning it and it got deleted 😆

[@Tekkerue]

@@sahamal_savu Yeah, I've had many comments recommending products get deleted also. KZbin's censorship has gotten out of control over the last couple years or so.

[@sahamal_savu]

@@Tekkerue I would lean more in the direction of the owner of the channel deleting the comment. But just look at all the other people mentioning it, can't delete them all 😆It's probably because I said how it doesn't disable anything after the trial period is over so you can use it indefinitely for free.

[@Tekkerue]

@@sahamal_savu I have experienced this many, many times on a wide variety of channels and I've even had replies from the owners of the channel on occasion who were not sure why it was happening thus confirming they were not deleting the comments. KZbin doesn't allow links, otherwise I'd link you to several very recent examples where this has happened to me while talking about software and their pricing. Some on audio software and some on video software, all completely different channels yet exactly the same result where my comment was deleted. There have also been times where I can split up my comment and post it in chunks, then each piece will go through just fine but it wouldn't go through as a single comment. KZbin's filter is horrible.

[@tsiobbel]

these shortscale piccolo basses!

[@getsideways7257]

I'm not sure about bass, but for electric guitar you are better off recording it out of the amp with a quality microphone - at least that was the case a couple of decades ago when I was making my own first steps in that direction. Also, you need to make sure you are using the ASIO drivers for the lowest latency possible on your audio interface.

[@antoniolorusso4768]

I usually don't use plugins but I got a really nice preamp, (Aguilar Ag) a nice compressor pedal (cali76) but my bass sound shitty and not professional in my daw... i'm just speaking of the tone, not of the executions..🌠

[@tsardean9192]

I'm only on step one and I'm already out, I only have a desktop PC :( /s

[@spenceremmons6200]

I need to update my online security.

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

Studio One...

[@PedantsRevolt]

A good video, but that title... _How To Record Bass On _*_**ANY**_*_ Budget_ I challenge you to record bass on a $10 budget! I'll give you the bass and computer --- but can you get the bass onto the computer for $10? There, Charles. I've thrown down the gauntlet... Will you take it up?

[@AriStarr883]

You said on any budget, then you say I need a laptop I don’t have a money for laptop or pc

[@mooncheeseplague5157]

Geeese lol all budgets? Even 70 for that interface is out of my budget right now lol.

[@MikeNevill3]

My records of bass is always week sounding .

[@zerosiii]

what about video?

[@Tekkerue]

For software, DaVinci Resolve hands down. There is even a free version, which is extremely functional. The paid Studio version is $300 and the current model is that all upgrades are free. The company Blackmagic retains the right to change this in the future, but so far every upgrade has been free. I can't speak to cameras or lighting or anything like that though.

[@zerosiii]

​@@Tekkerue I mean there's so much things here, even after you get a camera and a lens and set it up. Do you record video and audio at the same time? Or audio separately, and the sync? Then, you probably want to connect your camera to your computer/laptop, instead of recording on battery and SD card and then transferring files, which is annoying. To do this, you need a video capture card (which is just like the Audio Interface, but for video), and a dummy battery for your specific camera, so then you hit "Record" in a software (i.e. OBS) and record directly files to your computer, which is 10x faster then using SD cards

[@Tekkerue]

​@@zerosiii Sure, I was only speaking to the editing software not the hardware. To your first question, it depends on how you want to film, if you want to get a perfect audio performance using multiple takes and then make a video for it, you'd probably want to record audio and video separately. Get the audio edited first and then mime a performance for the video where you play along in time while listening to the edited audio, think of a music video. If you want to capture an authentic live performance exactly how you play it, then you'd have to record both audio and video at the same time. In terms of recording to your computer or an SD card, I can't really speak to that as I don't know camera or video capture hardware.

[@soniasantiago-vy6ei]

Iphone

[@bradyung798]

First

[@BassCampOfficial]

👏🏻🥇

[@carsonhicks27Bass]

I record my yt videos on my phone 😅🥲

[@wanzunulagerald]

All am hearing is buy🌝

[@robertp457]

If you can find a way to do it for free without a bass and a laptop I’m all ears.

[@blightofthenine2813]

ok, but what if my budget is $0.39

[@midaskane3099]

Buy yourself a lolly and be happy with it!

[@RogueRhythms]

what’s wrong w the video