As a lifelong bassist, former pro audio engineer and studio musician, and home studio enthusiast, my advice is to ignore every generalization about room acoustics and proper mics, and mic'ing techniques, etc. and just put a mic in your room and record it along with the DI and decide for yourself which one or, more likely, which blend of the two works best. That's the only way you're going to know if it sounds good or not (and YOU are the judge of that, not random clueless strangers on the internet). I've had my bass amps mic'ed with everything ranging from cheap ass mics in a garage to high end mics in a treated isolation room to live performances on a stage, and everything in between and the best mic'd cabinet sounds I've heard from those recordings were not always from the best/most expensive approach. Sometimes an SM57 in your crappy untreated studio blended in with your DI gives you that added edge and raw tone that keeps your bass from sounding like a sampled one.
Statistics: Posted by cryophonik — Sun Mar 10, 2024 6:18 pm