Making your electric bass sound like a double bass

[heymrbassman]

Hey pple,

Im quite a noob here. Been surfing around but not been posting.

Does anybody have any idea where you get such a sound? Can you get it using some effects pedal?

 

[reyrey]

palm mute

 

[kreed]

flats?

 

[liqnitro]

palm mute or get a Variax Bass :twisted:

 

[rylche]

Palm mute, flatwounds, Precision bass with tone knob rolled down. That's what I think would get to an as-close-to-double-bass sound. But then again, I haven't heard what this combination can achieve!

 

[ahkiatt]

I think the tone knob should be able to do wonders...

 

[heymrbassman]

Wah Varix bass.. No money lah.. haha

Ok looks like I have to learn this palm muting thing. Is there any video that shows you how to do this? Dun think I saw this kind of video in the sticky post. Many thanks for your help.

 

[Z3r0_G]

you could also try sticking styrofoam under your bridge. that realy mutes out a out of sound.

 

[rottenramone]

pluck closer to the neck

 

[exin]

yeah ..

turning down your tone knob to a small value and plucking closer to your neck will help .. even better .. pluck over your fingerboard after your last fret ..

 

[bassics]

put your palm at your bridge and play with your thumb and pointy finger. Try to listen to alot of double bassist to get their habit of plucking before the a's of notes in a triplet to anticipate the 1.

 

[Ariedartin]

Go fretless? But it comes with a price, both financially and tonally.

 

[reyrey]

have to disagree,fretless doesnt sound like double bass at all

 

[Ariedartin]

Ah well, should have known better.

 

[hayabusa]

get acostic bass and a acostic bass amp?

 

[gregtalow]

is there such as thing as an acoustic bass amp? I thought it just used the same as an electric bass?

 

[DarkRed]

ive not heard of an amp specifically for acoustic bass either..

double bass sound.. play with your thumb or side of the finger where theres more flesh. like bassics said, prob some of the 'sound' associated with a double bass actually comes from the style of playing too...

 

[hayabusa]

hehe.. sorry guys, what i mean is a acostic amp. never heard of a acostic bass amp myself

 

[Musicana77]

Sounding like a double bass

Was walking around at esplanade and saw this small performance going on, just a pianist a guitarist and a bassist and somehow he sounded really like a double bass. Most likely it is due to the sonud system and acoustics of the area. He was using a RBX series bass from yamaha if am not mistaken. pretty cool.

 

[kawerty]

okok,easiest way to making a electric bass sound like a double bass(contrabass) , Go buy a Bow used for double bass and play it onur electric bass. the french bow or german bow can be up to you. after buying the bow,don't forget the rosin to apply for frction,after applying,useit on ur electric bass,100% works,just the sound that coming out from the amp. :mrgreen: