There’s no compression, what you are hearing is what I played. Remember, first time playing with a thumb, so maybe a little uneven. Also, this bass is a little uneven, the low E through to G can get lost sometimes.
Also, in these old songs, the bass is often pretty indistinct. I didn’t try to “sharpen” the bass tone.
Anyway, my view, you don’t really need a plugin, just change your playing style and EQ, you’ll get 80% of the way there…
Doesn’t this go against the very nature of understanding things and making progress?
If I would have accepted the first answer, I would have converted to MIDI and use a acoustic double bass virtual instrument. That is an approach I would use for drivin a synth via MIDI, but for “upright bass sound™" I think it would loose too many imperfections, which is one of the fun things of upright.
Now we have some great ideas, as shown overnight by @SunDog (by the way - I’m looking for a way to make a bass sound like a synth using plugins. Expecting your cover tomorrow, @sunDOG :-))
I will try it out in the park, as soon as the sun shines - using all ideas posted here, including foam and delay.
But maybe there are some other ideas we haven’t had? Let’s find out 
Yes and no. At some point it is all about diminishing returns… 
This sums it up pretty nicely 
To be perfectly clear here the problem with this approach is that you want to use a bass guitar as a MIDI controller, not that the double bass virtual instrument would sound bad or that MIDI wouldn’t be expressive enough.
That’s the spirit 
She might be sending you a message though… 
That would definitely help. The bass is nice too.
Two things (plus a third that I’ll leave as an exercise for the reader).
Yet another staged photo taken by someone who has no idea about the subject s/he is shooting.
I just wanna enjoy the view sometimes, not think about exercise
It’s called super rake, 
I dunno how I feel about her legs. On one hand I want it to be true
I can see it!
Hey, @Whying_Dutchman, the new Fuse Audio Ocelot Octaver is a great little plugin. 14 day free trial. On sale until 19 July for 24,17 € ($29 from $69 list).
Ah cool!
My “expertiments” yesterday in the park were already promising. Got interrupted by a bunch of punks that came over for a chat and spontaneously started jamming with their guitar and a very beautiful girl with an even better voice.
So I will pick up trying stuff (also with an octaver plugin) today.
By the way: my Kilohearts Essentials wants to be activated with iLok in the park (where I have no internet). WTF?
@howard - rescue me
Well that’s definitely weird because Kilohearts doesn’t use iLok.
Just install it from their site using the Kilohearts installer instead of the Slate Digital thing next time
So, here is the funny thing : I didn’t even know, what slate is.
It was not installed too.
Still, kilohearts wanted ilok activation.
Now it’s resolved, but it’s still strange…
[rant]
I despise Steven Slate and all of his businesses. Horrible, truly horrible, customer service. Arrogant condescension.
[/rant]
The above sentiment was mildly redeemed by the following April 1st video from 14 years ago. Yeah, I go way back with that piece of work.
