Thank youIf there is, I've never heard of such a thing.
For years, bass players have tried to get close to the double bass sound......and not managed it. The fretless bass doesn't do it, the acoustic bass guitar doesn't do it although with flatwound strings and a bit of string buzzing it gets a bit closer than anything else. But that close is the kind of closeness that Canada has to Scotland as opposed to England....
Back in the 2004~2012 period when I'd sold my double bass because I'd heard these brilliant samples and thought that to be the answer {to a question I wasn't even asking at the time !}, I tried so many different VSTis and none of them did it. I tried out electric double basses and none of them really sounded like a double bass to me. Maybe I'd just tried the wrong ones.
In the end, come 2012, I just bought a cheap double bass again ! And I've not regretted it. It sounds like a double bass !
That's really nice. I'd say it has about 90%+ of a double bass sound.Here is a snippet of the Fender Ashbory on a Bluegrass instrumental track
I'll take #5. The first two have a lot of string vibration. Third lacked bottom, almost a flat-picked sound. Fourth is a bit muddy. Sixth sounds like a finger picked electric bass.How do these VBass track bits sound? They are raw presets. I tried to find the most realist acoustic bass thump in the 40 or so AC presets. Are these convincing of a real upright's thump?...last one is a Trace Eliot active.
Neither do I. Im working on a theory that every track needs to be hard limited and then turned back up..otherwise they sound pericing when you turn it up and crank the volume. The brickwall stopper helps even it out, so it can be loud. Its only a theory.but no rich woodsey tones.
How do these VBass track bits sound? They are raw presets. I tried to find the most realist acoustic bass thump in the 40 or so AC presets. Are these convincing of a real upright's thump?...last one is a Trace Eliot active.
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No offence, and it would do if there was absolutely nothing else {with a bit of tweaking}, but it doesn't really sound like a double bass to my ears. It just sounds like a bass instrument.Here is a snippet of the Fender Ashbory on a Bluegrass instrumental track
I think I have these two; is it the ones called "Jazz upright" and "Upright bass" ? Mine are in the Kontakt factory sounds and I've been having a quick play with them. They very much sound like the Danny Thompson samples. I have to say though, if you tweak the tone knob more to the left, they are good, very good. These are what I'd probably recommend to someone that wasn't going to actually buy a real one ~ which basically means pretty much everyone but you, me and Raymond, Rob !my favourite pretend one is the two double basses in the NI instruments Factory Sounds - couple this to a MIDI pedal board and I doubt anyone would know.
I don't know what you mean by that.Lets hear some 'fresh' Grim
Well, we can beg to differ on that.That Ashbory clip was pretty good
This is probably the only place that 'V-Bass' and 'impressive' show up in the same sentence when it comes to sounding like a double bass.I never thought the V-Bass was that impressive