[LAU] Nice plugins for acoustic bass guitar ?

[Bill Gribble]

There are a couple of guitar-like bass-register instruments in Spanish-speaking folk music (the bajo sexto and the guitarron) but neither of them is exactly an acoustic bass guitar (tuning, range, number of strings differ).  They are certainly acoustic instruments.  My point was that the acoustic bass guitar usually is employed as a "hollowbody electric bass", so the straightforward path to recording it is to use a DI as you  would an electric bass.

Of course you can and should experiment with pointing mics at anything that might make an interesting sound!  It just sounded like the original poster was looking for basic advice.

Note: I'm a bass player (double bass and electric) so I have strong opinions about this stuff :) 

Thanks,
Bill Gribble

On Apr 20, 2013, at 23:20, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Bill Gribble <grib at billgribble.com> wrote:
>> An "acoustic bass guitar" is a bit of an oxymoron.  The whole idea of it was
>> invented for "MTV Unplugged" so that bass players who couldn't play a double
>> bass would have something to do.  Nobody ever hears them acoustically, they
>> just can't keep up with an unplugged band.  You need a much bigger body to
>> decently reproduce low frequency sound.  So forget about mic technique, use
>> a good DI, and treat it like an electric bass, which it is.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bill Gribble
> 
> Isn't an acoustic bass (ie, a great big guitar) an essential part of a
> Mariachi Band? Or are you guys talking about something else?
> 
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