Bass guitar with a double bass sound???

[BassBus]

I'm not sure how much the acoustics of the room contribute to the sound in these two clips.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wty6jkbteVg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wty6jkbteVg[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhncEjUrBFw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhncEjUrBFw[/url]

[iconic]

Truebass tapes on a fretless jazz sounds quite good to me

[Clarky]

Takamine B10 or TB10 comes close:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKEtECsF8To

For a more traditional solid body, I would say a Fender J or P plucked over the end of the neck with black nylon tape strings (TruBass or La Bella's)

[bremen]

l can't see how an acoustic bass guitar could emulate the tone of a bass; the size of the body is going to be so much smaller that it just isn't going to resonate at the same frequencies. have you considered solid bodied electric upright? I have an Aria swb lite, and with ropewound strings its no harder to stop than a bass guitar.

[philw]

I've heard quite a few people play my demo Veillette Paris (the blue one) now and the thing that's struck me is just how much the sound of the instrument is in the fingers and technique of the player. The basic tone of the Veillette is warm and woody, and that always come though, whoever plays it, but some people just have something in their technique that can make is sound remarkably (amplified) double-bass like. It's partly that they naturally play double-bass chops rather than electric bass chops, but it's also something about how they attack the strings with their right hand and voice the note (vibrator, pressure, etc) with their left.

P

[rushbo]

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Edited November 4, 2012 by rushbo

[shizznit]

I played an Epiphone Zenith fretless with black nylon strings earlier this year and you can get a DB type from that. Nice to play and looks pretty cool too. Almost tempted to buy one myself.

[chaypup]

Do you think the OP has found a solution in the last 3 years?

[Bill-R]

[quote name='markdavid' timestamp='1260911756' post='685729']
The Trubass strings do get very close to the double bass sound
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True bass 88s on a viola bass, gives you that real woody double bass sound.

[stephent]

[size=4][sub][size=5]I use a Lightwave VL (5 fretless as it happens). I can dial that very double bass like - or so people tell me[/size] [/sub][/size]

Edited December 14, 2012 by stephent

[bertbass]

+1 to the Kala U bass. Sounds like an upright to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNPx6RS8PiM

[Mornats]

Wow, incredible sound from one of those. I did play one in Newcastle a while ago and didn't think it was worth the £400-500 they wanted for it as it felt a bit like a toy but I'm now well impressed with the sound from that.

[Lozz196]

Apparently, from the review in last months BGM, the new Squier Telecaster basses have a setting on them that`s meant to be double-bass-like.

[machinehead]

My method is soft attack with the right hand and muting with the left hand to kill the notes quickly. Roll the tone right off. This technique seems to work well with a P bass but I suppose most passive basses would work for this.

Frank.

[TomRichards]

Kala U bass. The uke bass really, really, really can fool anyone.

[mtroun]

I played a Kala U bass and thought it sounded like a P Bass with flats. Definitely not a double bass sound. I've never heard anyone make a 34" scale instrument sound like a double bass and neither have I heard an electric upright that sounds like a double bass.

[3below]

I want a pedal / effects box. It has 3 settings - fretless bass, double bass and direct. It also has blend to mix all three in combination. It is made by XXXXXXXXX and costs £50 max...

Edited December 19, 2012 by 3below

[gsgbass]

This set up will do it well. One of the double bass sounds that really works in this gear set, the D'Addario ETB92 Nylon Tapewound Strings. The bass, and the amp don't hurt either.

[IMG]http://i1067.photobucket.com/albums/u426/roadrex/40037410.jpg[/IMG]

[TRBboy]

I needed a double bass sound when I was doing panto one year, so I bought a Yamaha BB604 fretless and strung it with tape wound nylons and it nailed it.

Edited December 30, 2012 by TRBboy

[alyctes]

Aria Sinsonido sounds pretty good. Fretless is better for the tone.

[gsgbass]

[quote name='TRBboy' timestamp='1356830276' post='1914208']
I needed a double bass sound when I was doing panto one year, so I bought a Yamaha BB604 fretless and strung it with tape wound nylons and it nailed it.
[/quote]

Hi, What Nylon tapewounds strings did you string on it?

[dragan]

fender jazz with flats sounds much like double bass plus you can do low action set up to help with your arthritis pain.

[Kiwi]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1260565008' post='681704']
My old Godin Acoustibass fretless sounded more like a double bass than a fretless bass IMO, even with Rotos roundwounds on it. If you get a Godin A4 (the newer version, £749 new according to Google) stick flats on it and pick up by the fingerboard I reckon that's about as close as you'll get.
[/quote]
This would get my vote, with nylon wound strings. Ashbory comes sort of close but I've always struggled with the ergonomics. Rob Allen/Shuker Artist/Turner Renaissance are all worth considering but they sound more like electric uprights to my ears...which isn't necessarily a bad thing for gigging...unless you're in a trad jazz band I guess.

[TRBboy]

[quote name='gsgbass' timestamp='1357096211' post='1917493']
Hi, What Nylon tapewounds strings did you string on it?
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I believe they were GHS nylon tapewounds. I think I chose those because I wanted something that was a lighter gauge than the Rotosound strings (they were responsible for knackering the nut on my old jazz bass), and this was before the D'addario ones existed I think. As far as I remember they were brilliant!

Edit: These [url="http://www.ghsstrings.com/strings/bass/tapewound"]http://www.ghsstrings.com/strings/bass/tapewound[/url]

Edited January 2, 2013 by TRBboy