My Producer Say I Need Hollow Body Bass

I'd fire the producer and/or throw some flats on the Sire and be done with it. Hollow body basses don't sound so unique you can immediately pick them out of any mix.

 

Is he paying for it? If not ..

 

Just use that and put some foam down by the bridge if that's the sound he's going for. Using a hollow body isn't a night and day difference especially if you have guitars, keys, etc. in the mix.

 

The need for a hollow body, sounds like bias not fact.

 

Try to find out if he owns the only hollowbody dealer in town first

 

I’ve had all of the ones you list in the past. The only one I still have is the Fender Coronado. I also have Gretsch, but that wasn’t listed.

So, it would be a Coronado for me.

 

I own a Casady and a G&L SB2. With flats on each, they are very different beasts. The producer may just be getting caught up in the image, but there are real differences between the two, and I’d imagine in a studio environment, that’d be emphasized. But I’d also say it’s a 3-5% difference in a mixed track with proper compression and EQ.


All that said, for my old Americana project, it was 100% the Casady in the studio.

 

At most studios, if you walk in with a hollow body, they’re gonna say “get a P bass.” Any engineer worth his salt can make a P bass sound good in the mix.

 

I would never buy a bass because someone instructed me to do so.

 

A lot of information is missing:

Is the producer the band leader?
Is the producer also the songwriter?
Are you getting paid for these sessions?
Is the band signed to a label in which the producer has some artistic control of the project?

 

yep, i think the situation is odd enough that most peeps here are gonna say whaaaaaaaaat? lol

 

Maybe he can Produce one for you to play then

 

Just bring whatever bass you want and tell them it's a hollow body. They'll hear what they want.

 

Just tell him you can't afford to buy a bass.

 

Something wrong with producer.

 

Okay OP, to actually answer your question:

I also have a Fender Coronado, but they don't get much love on this site.
It always has been, and will probably always be my favorite bass.

A lot of that is because it's the one I've own the longest.
Like you, I want another hollow body but not sure what else I want,
that I'm willing to pay top dollar for.

I'd like a Guild Starfire, but not bad enough to pay the price.

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I have tried many times to record my hollow body bass so I could make a comparison against my solid body bass and show everyone how completely different they sound. So far I have never been able to record anything on the hollowbody that sounded enough different from my solid body to be worth the effort. I still have the hollowbody and it feels very different to play so I think I'm sounding completely different but it just doesn't come out on recordings in any distinctive way different from what I can sound like on any other bass -- I adjust my touch to get whatever sound the song calls for.

 

A producer who ASKS for a hollow body bass?
That is an absolute first for me.