the other night, a self-proclamed upright purist (sax player) in a recording sessions admitted to me that my electric basses were "more upright sounding than an upright." i was playing with my bridge pickup soloed (back off a little bit from full volume, for punch) and plucking up on the fingerboard, one tune on fretless the other on fretted, roundwound strings.
i will admit, they did sound especially good on those tracks.
does anyone know of other recordings where the electric bass does a better acoustic bass sound than a regular doublebass?
i'll post these tracks if they ever get sent to me. anyone know of other good examples of this type of thing? i think i recall hearing anthony jackson pull it off better than i ever could..
hopefully nobody from the DB side of TB sees this
