Double Bass Advice for doubling

[jthisdell]

I used to used a simple a/b switch but i needed a better preamp so I bought a bassbone od. It has the super high impedence on one channel and separate eq and hpf's. And it sounds silly but the mute at the beginning of the signal chain is super handy and make it much easier to switch. I don't use the od circuit so I could have used the less expensive tonebone v2 but it was not yet available when I got the od. But really if you have a pre you are happy with then just use an ab switch.

 

[Fran Diaz]

I haven't doubled more than a handful of times, so buyer beware...but this is my current set up. The EP Booster is new to the rig for testing and is obviously optional.

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The small advantage of my set up over this is that I have independent eqs for EB and DB.

 

[Fran Diaz]

By the way, the manual for the EDB-2 says "3.2.1 BASS Control: +/- 12dB centred broadly @ 120Hz or +/- 16dB@ 45Hz Allows control of the bass at the lowest frequency of the audio spectrum and will over-lap a little tonally with LO MID control".

How can I change the bass freq from 120Hz to 45Hz and viceversa?

 

[Eric Hochberg]

For simplicity and lower cost, I recommend a two channel amp, like the EA Doubler. It does everything I need it to
when I double.

 

[Treyzer]

For simplicity and lower cost, I recommend a two channel amp, like the EA Doubler. It does everything I need it to
when I double.

I have a Walter Woods, which I very much like, but based on Eric's suggestion, I bought an EA Doubler maybe a year or so ago and it has been great. A real dependable little work horse. Plenty loud for what I usually do. If I'm playing just the double bass, I can use both channels; one for the Full Circle and one for the DPA mic. The amp has phantom power built in. If I'm doubling, I've got one channel for the pork chop and the bottom channel for the DB. A simple footswitch allows me to choose the channel I need. No fuss, no bother.

 

[thmsjordan]

This is what I'm going to use:

Epic Schematic Man !!! Kudos!!

 

[Fran Diaz]

Epic Schematic Man !!! Kudos!!

LOL! Thanks!

 

[peterpalmieri]

I know the gear whore that I am you'd never think I'd say this but KISS (keep it simple....).

Mute amp - unplug bass - plug in other bass - twist EQ knob - unmute amp

I also own a doubler, but prefer my single channel AI focus in most cases.

 

[robgrow]

FWIW for doubling gigs, I use a Walter Woods Electracoustic amp, which has 2 channels with a small cabinet, which has one 15-inch Eminence C2515 neo speaker. This rig is simple and amazingly light (very important to me). It also sounds great for both DB and BG and gets as loud as I ever want to play and works in just about any situation.

 

[LM Bass]

I have tried many solutions to the doubling issue, and my journey ended here:
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[Ric Vice]

FWIW for doubling gigs, I use a Walter Woods Electracoustic amp, which has 2 channels with a small cabinet, which has one 15-inch Eminence C2515 neo speaker. This rig is simple and amazingly light (very important to me). It also sounds great for both DB and BG and gets as loud as I ever want to play and works in just about any situation.

+1 It's a really great amp for Doubling. Nothing beats having two completely independent channels with their own individual EQ controls for this purpose.

 

[elgecko]

Here's how I do it.

 

[jvgreene]

I tried something new this last weekend, worked great!

Doubling Diagram

• jvgreene
• Jun 10, 2015

A diagram for doubling on upright and bass guitar

 

[Groove Doctor]

^ Great idea. I always thought a switcher would work in the Effects Loop, but hadn't thought about the Tuner after it as a mute though.

 

[jvgreene]

^ Great idea. I always thought a switcher would work in the Effects Loop, but hadn't thought about the Tuner after it as a mute though.

It's hard to see in the picture but I'm actually using the pre-amp out / power-amp in on the Ampeg. I believe it is the only way to bypass the amps tube pre-amp. I believe the effects loop still goes through the pre-amp on this model, but I could be wrong.

 

[Mr Ignoto]

Thanks to all for the replies and thoughts on this. This site is a really wonderful resource. On this thread, and after a few years of intermittent doubling myself, I've come to the view that there are many ways to solve this problem. If I were starting from scratch, I would probably drop $600 for the Basswitch IQ DI. Or maybe save a few bucks with either the Radial Bassoon OD or Bassoon V2. Very simple, elegant, and flexible.

But I have a lot of gear lying around the house already, and my practical issue at the moment is that I'm providing the bass rig for an outdoor festival later this month, where we'll have 15 acts and a range of bass inputs. So my solution will be to (1) pull out my 10 year old Radial Bassbone/Tonebone to serve as the basic A/B switch and direct box (and get a new wall wart since the original is torn and frayed), (2) run the electric basses upstream through a SansAmp bass driver and into channel 2 of the Radial, and (2) order an Fdeck series 2M to put upstream of Channel 1 of the Radial. I will run all of this into my Aguilar AG500 and a couple of AG GS112s (starting to seem vintage by now). So for $110 bucks I (a) get a new Fdeck (paying homage to my GAS), (b) overcome the limitation of the original Radial Tone Bone for URB, (c) have plenty of tone shaping for the electric basses with the SansAmp, and (d) go into the situation with a lot of confidence that -- as long as I have fresh batteries in the Fdeck and the SansAmp -- I'll have a bullet proof rig that will sound good all day long.

Comments and suggestions would be most welcome, as always.

 

[peterpalmieri]

As much as I love fooling with gear, setting it up and thinking about it on a gig is a pain in the neck and distracting.

I really like stomping the tuner and pulling the plug. Have the F Deck wire tied to the after length and plug in.

Then I can get on with trying to not play all the wrong notes.