{"id":7137,"date":"2015-04-13T09:51:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2015-05-10T23:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T04:59:04","slug":"stealing-your-guitar-players-effects-and-getting-away-with-it-in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/stealing-your-guitar-players-effects-and-getting-away-with-it-in-the-studio.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Stealing&quot; your guitar player&#8217;s effects and getting away with it in the studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to recording the bass guitar direct, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/sansamp-bass-driver-di.htm\"><strong>a bass DI is the go-to stomp box<\/strong><\/a> for that sort of thing. However, if you ever run into the situation where you don&#8217;t have your favorite DI box at-the-ready (or if yours broke for whatever reason,) you can plug in to your guitar player&#8217;s multi-effects unit and usually wrangle a &#8220;passable&#8221; sound out of one.<\/p>\n<p>Most modern multi-effect floor units for guitar have 100 presets or more, and will have at least a handful of bass-specific presets in it, such as the DigiTech RP360 shown above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this a replacement for a good DI box? Absolutely not.<\/strong> A proper bass DI is specifically made to accommodate electric bass guitar frequencies best and is much better suited for both studio and feeding into a PA.<\/p>\n<p>While recording bass direct this way isn&#8217;t a replacement for a proper DI, in a pinch it does work. Or to be more specific, it&#8217;s better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to recording the bass guitar direct, a bass DI is the go-to stomp box for that sort of thing. However, if you ever run into the situation where you don&#8217;t have your favorite DI box at-the-ready (or if yours broke for whatever reason,) you can plug in to your guitar player&#8217;s multi-effects &#8230; <a title=\"&quot;Stealing&quot; your guitar player&#8217;s effects and getting away with it in the studio\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/stealing-your-guitar-players-effects-and-getting-away-with-it-in-the-studio.html\" aria-label=\"More on &quot;Stealing&quot; your guitar player&#8217;s effects and getting away with it in the studio\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}