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 On April 20, 2013 10:23:45 PM Al Thompson <althompson58(a)gmail.com> wrote:

On 04/20/2013 05:20 PM, Bob van der Poel wrote: Acoustic bass (particularly the big standup string base) was essential for jazz, too. -- David gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/

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(a)mellowood.ca> wrote: