Duh

pintspiller

 Shortly after the start of the initial Lockdown, I upgraded the pickups in my  VM Jazz but did virtually all my recording with my Bitsa P.

When I decided to repaint the Bitsa and reposition the Himass bridge a couple of months back I decided to record with the VM Jazz. All went well for the first couple of tracks (I'm having a go at selling production music on the likes of Pond5 etc) until I noticed talking on the bass tracks when I increased gain or tweaked compression.

The talking was from my Kindle were I was watching something on YouTube while I was recording. Initial thoughts were that the pickups I'd used for the upgrade were microphonic. The seller on eBay said they were from a Japanese-made Fender J.

After checking out other pickups for a further upgrade (Amazon USA have one set of Quarter Pounders for £100 being what I had considered) for the last few weeks, I noticed that the Art MP I've been using to DI my basses still has the microphone attached from my last vocal recording!

Duh!

Musicwolf

It happens.  I was once recording an acoustic guitar and, despite using closed back headphones, I could hear the click bleeding through.  I dropped the click level - still there, then I tried playing with my head tilted back as far as I could keep as far away from the mic as possible - it was no better.

I finally realised that I had a second live set of open backed headphones hanging from the mic stand.