Well ... i play Rock and Jazz ... and i play the electric bass... i am choosing between an electric upright or an acoustic double bass ... i might put some pickups on the acoustic double bass ... which one of these choices are better ? i am new ... i play in a school band [a good one] ... they also play classic music ... but in my free time i go play rock with my friends ... will an EUB or ADB do the job for both of these situations ?

yet another tasteless question from me :p

Well I have to say if you might play classical your going to need an acoustic one. Nobody in their right mind play classical music on a EUB.

Actually, in a school band situation, an EUB might be a reasonable approach, BUT...

You'd want to stay away from the bass guitars in disguise (Zeta crossover), and once you start looking at a dedicated EUB that can do classical well, then the price advantage actually tilts towards a proper DB.

My recommendation would be to rent a proper DB for a few months and study with a good teacher, see if this really is for you. If it does work out, then you can go the rest of the way towards finding a bass that fits YOUR needs. There is, after all, a chicken-and-egg problem with starting with any new instrument: You can't determine if it's any good, if you can't play it, but you can't learn to play it with having one to learn on.

-dh

oh ok ... thanks for the helps ... i don't expect the double bass or EUB to sound like the the "F-16 sound" equivelant electric basses...

i will probably get a DB i think ... my band conductor is right now contacting the teacher for me...

do you know any bands that use double basses / EUB in their songs ? so i can check them out sometime...

Reverend Horton Heat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.. a lot of those rockabilly bands use uprights... i can't remember the name, but there's a band from austrailia that had a song called "prisioner of society" on the radio for a while, and they had an upright too.. i liked it, but it didn't come through so well..

oh ok ... thanks ... i mean modern rock ... :p but thanks ... i kinda got the idea

the double basses shipped here are mostly old wrecked basses ... then shipped by boats and then renovated and refinished and it gets a setup ... that's about what you get ...

EUBs would be easier to get and avoid the customs here from adding more tax :) welll ... double basses are impossible to avoid though

Originally posted by madsky
oh ok ... thanks ... i mean modern rock ... :p but thanks ... i kinda got the idea

Barenaked Ladies is one contemporary rock band which uses more DB than BG.

Dig through your cds and read the liner notes... if you look for a while you'll eventually turn something up.

-dh (who read in the paper yesterday that Gary Sinise plays bass... who knew?)

Iwent from Walls ,Alembics & Fenders thru the mid 80s playing rock,rnb..etc.I believe its worth starting on a DB.A Stenton perhaps as they are made next door ...ie China & dont cost much. A good teacher will follow this up for you.Once you get your hands on 1 & make it your own you can branch into NS or the likes. I have recently ,& found it interesting .DONT GIVE UP>THERE IS A SOUND OUT THERE FOR YOU.