[moses]

In regards to kirk's concern for recording bass... I have a bass and am mildly proficient at playing it. It's not my primary instrument by any stretch of the imagination. That said, if I'm to be the bassist (I don't recall seeing anyone else say they could do it) I can do the compression thing necessary to make it full and plump like a bass should sound.

Maybe in the initial stages the effects like that should be minimal (just enough to get things going) and then the mixer/producer can add more for the final mixdown if necessary, since it's awfully hard to remove such things if you decide it's too much. Certain songs could require a different bass sound and if you hardcode certain effects and EQ settings into it, you're stuck with it.