Acoustic bass guitar pickup question

[Mandobassman]

I am primarily a upright player, but I recently picked up a inexpensive acoustic bass guitar to use for certain gigs. I am actually amazed at how good it sounds, but I am wondering if there is any type of pedals or processing equipment that would help provide a tone closer to a upright sound.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Have you already tried flatwound strings? Does the instrument have a piezo pickup and preamp? You could get in the ballpark with those.

 

[Mandobassman]

Have you already tried flatwound strings? Does the instrument have a piezo pickup and preamp? You could get in the ballpark with those.

I’m using the built in pickup and preamp. I only use flatwound strings on all of my instruments. About to install Rotosound Tru-Bass 88 nylon tape wound strings.

 

[Riff Ranger]

I’m using the built in pickup and preamp. I only use flatwound strings on all of my instruments. About to install Rotosound Tru-Bass 88 nylon tape wound strings.

Worth a try, I thought. Tapes were my next suggestion. Good luck.

 

[Riff Ranger]

I have only begun to experiment with recording mine, but we’re going for almost completely different sounds I have a Seymour Duncan Woody humbucking sound hole pickup and get some different sounds from what I get with the piezo and onboard preamp, so that’s a possibility. But I’m using a pick and bronze rounds with a five string; with the Woody, I can only use downstrokes on the .130 and only upstrokes on the .045 because the pole pieces barely reach across the strings I haven’t even tried using a microphone yet.

 

[Riff Ranger]

Getting into almost entirely unhelpful hearsay here, but in an effort to bump your post and hopefully attract more helpful responses: my full-time musician buddy in Nashville gets his most upright-like tone from a short scale semi-hollowbody with flats. Other than from an actual upright, of course. I do hope someone more helpful will chime in.