That’s All Right - ELVIS
Experiments in tone…. I was intrigued by @Whying_Dutchman’s post where he was looking for a plugin to replicate an upright bass tone from a normal electric bass guitar. Surely it’s all in the fingers and EQing, I thought…?
Anyway, here’s an attempt to get an upright tone from the most unpromising of basses, my crappy Hohner Shorty. This bass has a single humbucker, more or less rammed against the bridge. So…I rolled off the tone, played with my thumb up the neck (as in over the fretboard) and then EQ’ed for bass in GarageBand. It’s an easy song, root and 5th, so this was one take after playing through a couple of times. I think I got the tone I was after…
Thoughts?
Hofner Shorty Bass into GarageBand via my Scarlett Solo.