
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
+1 on headphones as mics. It sounds weird that it would work, but it does. I remember reading how EMI engineers would use the loudspeaker as a mic back in the 60s to get a bass sound that for a short while was the envy of the recording world. I can't remember if I read about the headphone as a mic or if I just tried it one day to see what would happen but either way, I use it, rarely, but once in a blue moon. No idea what it would be like on double bass but I recently used it on amplified mandolin. I was doing a layering experiment so I had a few tracks of it but I was surprized how well it picked up and how it sounded. I was after a raw sound and I certainly got that !Way back in my early years of live sound I had some success with a pair of headphones clamped around the body. You put it at the bottom of the cutout opposite the player. Connected to a mono 1/4" input just the left ear cup is picked up so you can flip the phones around for two slightly different sounds.