Recording over the bass.

So I've decided in tomorrows session that I'm going to be redoing the bass. Since college do not have a full version of ableton live suite this is going to be difficult(ish). College do own reason 7 however and I can open my ableton project files but i can't edit or save them. So, I've come up with an amazing workaround, since I can open my ableton file but can't edit it I'll re-wire Reason 7 into ableton so i can get the tempo right and then record and process the bass in Reason.

I have just over 3 hours in the mac room tomorrow so I'll use this to my advantage. I've already got a really basic bass line in the track and i wish to expand upon this. Using the old bass line as a template I'm planning to spend about 1 and a half hours coming up with a nice riff to go under the track, I also want this riff to change through out the track so it's not repetitive and boring. I will then spend around 1 hour playing, recording and getting a good set of takes so I can then use them to my advantage and get the perfect bass line I want. The rest of the time is just encase i end up running out of time doing one of my tasks and also encase something breaks or i have to help someone else.

I plan on using my own bass for tomorrow which is a fender squire but I'm going to be using college cables so that will cost me £20 per hour so I'll run up a total of £60.

I'm going to be using the Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 as my USB interface and plugging my bass guitar into that. I'll then use an audio track on reason and leave it unprocessed so i can use ableton to process it at home (because I'm just awkward like that).

I decided to DI the bass because it's much easier to edit the sound in ableton than it is to have an amp set up and record it once and be stuck with that one sound. It's better to be able to change the sound later than it is to try and manipulate a already recorded sound.