Jim Roseberry

In the context of a dense Rock mix, a typical DI electric bass (especially a passive bass) is going to sound a bit anemic.

If you have access to something like a Neve preamp, that can help immensely.  The sound is larger/smoother (without sounding compressed).

I struggled for many years to get a good DI electric bass recording (especially with passive basses).

I used the Avalon U5, Reddi Box, UA-610... and all were OK sounding (to my ears)... but not great.

Ultimately got a Neve Portico-II channel-strip... and it was what I'd been looking for all those years.  

Though it has a great 4-band EQ and nice dynamics processor, the sound of the bass straight off the preamp sounds great.

At mix, a very slight amount of compression and a very small bit of high-pass filter to roll-out the very deepest sub-bass

The sound is there from the very beginning...

If going DI with electric bass, keep in mind that a mic'd bass amp isn't going to reproduce sound all the way down to 20Hz.

Use a high-pass filter to roll-out the deepest sub-bass (20-50Hz)... and the bass will sit better in the mix.

If forced to use a "plain-jane" (for lack of a better word) type DI to record electric-bass, I'd use an Amp-Sim plugin to "toughen up" the signal.

If you have a nice bass-amp and decent mic, consider mic'ing the amp.  Sometimes it's quicker/easier to just record the real thing.

If you have a great bass amp (Ampeg, Mesa, MarkBass, etc), I'd definitely try recording it.

Not so much Metal... but definitely a Rock guy.

Used to be more into Prog Rock when I was younger.

Now, I prefer simpler... well-crafted songs.

8GB RAM is a bit lean to run Win10.

Get that up to 16GB (or 32GB - especially if using virtual-instruments)... and you won't risk hitting the VM swap-file (in lieu of enough physical RAM)... which kills performance.

BTW, If you dual-boot using Win10, make sure you disable "Turn On Fast Startup".

When enabled, we've seen cases of lost data, etc.  

FWIW, An upgrade install (if you choose to Save/Migrate nothing), is essentially a clean install of Win10. 

An upgrade install (where you migrate) does leave the Registry a mess (by comparison to a clean install).

In a perfect world, you want to start with a clean install... as that's the most rock-solid foundation.

Do not use any type of RAM "enhancement" or optimization applications.

Those will do nothing positive for DAW performance.

As long as you have your RAM timing set properly, you're good-to-go.

DAW optimizations are much more about performance throttling (disabling)... and power-management (disabling)

Happy New Year from  Columbus, OH!

I too go back to the CompuServe days...

Hard to believe it's actually been that long.

Things have certainly come a long way over the past 20+ years!

Glad to see the official CbB Forums up-and-running!