Make ANY Bass Sound Like An Upright - Online Bass Lessons
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- The hallmark trait of any seasoned musician is being able to adapt to the gig, and any song at that gig. Don't bring your BOSS® Metal Zone pedal to the jazz gig...right? Sure, that's common sense - but don't stop there. Go the extra mile and nail the right TONE for the gig. You'd be surprised how you can achieve this with ONE bass and NO effects!
NOTE: Please listen to this lesson through a sound system or headphones to be able to hear the examples and tonal comparisons as optimally as possible!
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I'm new to bass, and I'm floored. This is an amazing demonstration of how just twiddling with the knobs on my starter gear can get me closer to that bwump-y upright bass sound. Thanks for the detailed instructions!
Glad to hear it helped! Thank you so much!
Changing to flatwounds would definitely help a lot too. Also, some sort of string muting toward the bridge is useful to help simulate some of the decay that happens on upright due to the bass's hollow construction and the composition of the strings. Some people use foam strips or actually use mutes created for this purpose, but I like to use the base of my palm for muting, although it means you can't pluck the strings way up over the neck (unless you have freakishly long fingers). But the tradeoff isn't bad, because good palm muting technique actually enhances the low frequencies for some reason, in a way that foam mutes can't/don't (if someone could explain the physics of this, or invent a mute that provides the same low frequency enhancement that palm muting does, I would be grateful!). Oh yeah, you also want to make sure any compression is turned off, and actually you might want to trim back some of the lows once you incorporate all the tricks, because although it might sound good on its own, in the mix it can sound unnaturally deep and overwhelm things a bit too much.
Wow, very very close tone. Didn‘t expect from this bass to get it so close to an upright.
Thank you! Yeah, it’ll never be super close, but close enough to sound appropriate in context with the gig. Just a good “on the fly” adjustment to help!
When I played jazz in high school, Fender P bass with the tone knob rolled half open, and flats were as close as I could get.
When I tried to imitate a pizzicato sound in my brassorchestra I played with neck pickup, high lows, nearly no treble and also less middle frequency but also picked the strings with my thumb and kinda palm muted the strings a little bit so the strings would have this high decay. It really worked quite good
Nice!
Sounds great, also saves you from having to buy one of those humongous basses.
He can buy a ukulele bass and sound almost exact.
I’m using a Corvette 6-String with two Basslines Soapbar pickups. With bright strings what I do, is blend the knob over to my neck pickup, turn my bass to ten, my treble to one and play up by the 24th fret bending my wrist playing like it’s a standup. It does the trick, close to Marks situation!!
Nailed it!
Thanks for the video! Great info! I'm using Upright bass impulse responses for that. Put in a convolution reverb +EQ = et voilà
Nice!! Bet it sounds killer.
That's about as close as one could imagine, not quite as good as the real thing, but certainly something that could help a modern base player create something very close to the sound. I really love the sound of an upright base, it's a shame they are not used as much in popular music nowadays.
This quite informative. I don’t play jazz personally, but this would come in handy for getting that kind of bass tone. Plus the tune kinda reminds me of that one song from the movie the errand boy where Jerry Lewis acts like a boss.
I’ve noticed on the thumb nail there’s a Yamaha trbx305. I have that bass and it sounds phenomenal. One of the most unique basses I’ve ever owned. I should also mention that I’m a huge Yamaha fan.
Good video. Really this shows how you can change your sound on EB through pick up selection eq, and hand placement. However, if a leader wants an upright, they'll hire an uprigt player. Learning both instruments is twice the work, but it also has given me twice the gigs.
That worked really well in context.
Favour the front pickup, flats and some kind of mute gets you a long way.
Great advice. I'd say get a fender P or J bass or fretless, flat-wound strings, bridge mute, tone roll off, pluck over neck ala upright player, use an amp w/ a 15" or 18" speaker (an upright body is a 40" speaker) ...listen to Monk Montgomery (jazz) and James Jamerson (soul).
Killer bass man!!! poplar!
and now, you need to add a DarkGlass pedal and RAWK! lol
Wow thats dope
Very helpful. Thanks!
You're welcome!
invaluable for me rn w my new fretless. your videos are the best
Thanks Isaiah! I appreciate that, and glad the video helped!
You can also use a mic (a Shure SM57, for example) on the bass (added to the one on the amp and/or the line signal). It can provide a bit of the "woodiness" (as well as the literal sound of the strings) required for an upright bass sound.
And if you can do it with a fretless, you are done!!
Interesting!! Yeah, getting the "wooden" sound is the true puzzle piece. Thanks for the tip!!
thank you for sharing!
No problem 😊
Dude...I was playing The Animals, Guns N' Roses AND Autumn Leaves, Moonlight in Vermont, All the Things You Are all with a B.C. Rich Warlock!!! 🤪🤣
Nice!! It can be done!
Great video Mark!
Thanks!
It does work, but having a fretless jazzbass sure helps hehe
A fretless would help as well 😉
Oh yeah. Wish I hadn’t sold mine years ago…
@@LowEndUniversity Get a Rouge fretless and upgrade the pickups.
I know an electric can’t really sound like a double but the sound you got with your method was the best I’ve seen so far except for a video of Bob Crenshaw. Do you set your amp eq the same?
I'd start with just onboard EQ changes as demonstrated - unless your bass is passive, and then I'd do all this on the amp side. However, with an active bass - I'd start with the onboard EQ first and then move to the amp for more drastic changes if needed.
Pickup height makes a difference too.
It does!
Its in the attack envelope, strings. piezo pickup, fretless intonation...no electric bass comes close...but good try
The Fender Jazz Bass was supposed to do that cause they wanted something easier to carry.
Appreciate the effort but playing both extensively there's no way. A lot of people try to just dampen everything to get the thud but then have no sustain or punch. Double bass is unique in that it has all three qualities simultaneously and losing any one completely wrecks it
Great video bro
Appreciate it
Good video sounds great for jazz etc but when it comes to a rockabilly or western swing slap you'll be lost . Acoustic wins every time
What bass is that
Warwick Thumb 6 NT
Pull those frets out and throw on flats, and you ll get even closer. I ll wait. 😬
I really want to, actually!
@Low End University use small amount of water and heat to minimize 'pullout' of wood. Make sure to fill the slots with veneer. Use thin CA glue as a super-hard finish. Its a fun project and fretless will get u 'right there' re: upright.
Nope!!! Not at all an authentic upright bass sound. You might be able to fool those that don't know though. It's like saying an acoustic guitar can sound like an electric. Not really!!!
That's literally the point of the video - fooling. It's making due in a situation where you need to get close to that sound.