Using a Headway EDB-1 with acoustic bass?

[Jack Clark]

Anybody out there using a Headway EDB-1 preamp with your acoustic bass guitar? If so, I'd very much like to hear how you're using it (settings) and with what other gear (bass, amp, etc.) .

I bought an EDB-1 because I'm intentionally trying to make my highly-modified upright guitarrón (UG) sound less like a typical guitarrón and as much like a double bass as possible. So I wanted a preamp that could heavily color the tone. (I'm not interested in effects.)

I have my UG strung with Rotosound Tru-Bass 88s, which are nylon-wrapped flatwounds, which already gives it a darker, thumpier sound than round wounds. But I'd like to hear from anybody who is also using an EDB-1 to color their acoustic bass guitar's sound more toward a double bass sound.

[hensonbass]

To me the Headway preamp is better at making the bass (doublebass for me) sound more natural and less colored. It still might give you what you want- try it!

If you are not happy with that I would look into a preamp like the Aguilar Tone Hammer that has an adjustable mid-eq control so you can dial in the frequencies you want to alter. Or even better is an Empress ParaEQ!