How to make the bass sound of a 6-string guitar sound more "bass-like" in Audacity?

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Hi there, I'm doing some recording from my acoustic guitar inside my room. It's just a simple setup, nothing fancy and all that. All I have right now is a laptop, samson go mic, a good acoustic guitar, and a lot of audio editing programs.

Just to give you all an idea on what I'm trying to do, I'm doing a one-man acoustic band using my guitar as percussions, guitar rhythm, lead guitars, and bass.

I just have an issue though. When I try to record the bass part of the song, it only gives me a guitar-sounding bass not an actual bass sound. Now of course I know that is expected from a 6 string guitar, so I was planning to tweak the sound using the programs I have - specifically Audacity.

I know full well that a regular guitar cannot replace the sound of an actual bass guitar. But I just want to know if you can at least tweak the equalizer in audacity to make the bass sound I recorded to be more, err... "bass-like" so to speak.

If you know how to adjust the equalizer settings on audacity or even know an auxillary program that can emulate a bass guitar, then please do post your answer below.

Just don't ask me to use this, or install a highly-priced mic, or soundproof my room or whatnot. Trust me, I don't have the time, resources, or the money to do those things.

Thanks everyone.

Tommymc · Accepted Answer

Play the bass part on the lowest 4 strings of your guitar. Then go into the "Effect" menu and select "Change Pitch."  Lower the pitch by 12 semitones.

Here are Audacity's instructions for changing pitch: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/change_pitch.html

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basically what everyone else is saying: midi keyboard, relatively nice condenser mic, powerful computer, recording interface, and a recording program. when i first started recording at home, the only instruments i actually recorded for my music were guitar and occasionally bass and my voice. i did everything else with this marvelous software called FL studio, which i recommend you start on. it's really easy once you get the hang of it, just watch some tutorials. although it doesn't have the best rep, it's a really good software. have at least 4 gigs of ram, b/c when i started recording, i hit the walls fast with my 2 gigs of ram computer haha. if you're interested in recording most of the instruments for your tracks instead of doing them with computer, then i recommend multiple high quality mics. (although using the computer for it is soooo much easier! lol)

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How to make the bass sound of a 6-string guitar sound more "bass-like" in Audacity?

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