How would you cop this bass sound?

[Jitters]

How would you cop this bass sound? It’s full and articulate, not wooly at all, as much bass as you need, but very well behaved and staying in its lane…

https://youtu.be/D5WJm2cKkCQ

[I'm Painting Again]

it's extremely repetitive - so the instrument itself is going to sound consistent - with bass as you go lower and higher you get unevenness in volume due to a few things - one being the room's standing waves another being the quality of the bass itself

for that sound I'd put a muffler on the bass strings a la Carol Kaye to shorten the sustain, go with a direct box capture rather than an amp in the room and roll off the low lows and a lot of the highs

[markjazzbassist]

precision bass, flatwounds, foam mute at the bridge

hofner bass, flatwounds, no need for mute these don't have much sustain

jazz bass, front pickup only, flatwounds, foam mute at bridge.


go direct with a passive DI with a transformer. make sure the flats are old and seasoned, new flats won't sounds like that. enjoy

[Jitters]

I ordered some flatwounds. I’m not sure If I’ll be tempted to replace the current bass parts, but you never know. Everything’s pretty much a scratch track anyway lol

[analogika]

I ordered some flatwounds. I’m not sure If I’ll be tempted to replace the current bass parts, but you never know. Everything’s pretty much a scratch track anyway lol

Everything's a scratch track until it's released.

[vernier]

Needs to be a player of that style . . i.e
James Jamerson
Greg Reeves
Bob Babbitt

[Nick Sevilla]

I ordered some flatwounds. I’m not sure If I’ll be tempted to replace the current bass parts, but you never know. Everything’s pretty much a scratch track anyway lol

Everything's a scratch track until it's released.

Very much this.

[mjau]

That’s a pretty great bass tone. I love a Precision with flatwounds, and on mine I recently moved the pickup deeper into the body, which helped reduce some of the really low lows and get it more into that thumpy, woody range.
So…with what others have said, the right setup on your bass can help, too.

[vvv]

Tube amp, just about breaking up, finger-style, judicious compression. I'd play it a little aggressively to get the little bit of edge.

[Jitters]

I’m all kinds of torn about this. I don’t want to recut all the bass parts, mainly because I don’t remember them lol. I was kind of hoping I could do some high and low passing on the existing parts, and do something about how wooly the sound is. Also, I suppose trying the flatwounds out on my p bass is the classic way to go, but I prefer playing my Gretsch hollow body. Just being indecisive and thinking out loud, nothing to see here.

[The Scum]

So put the flats on the Gretsch? Seems like a potentially great combo.

[Jitters]

People do say that they like flatwounds on that particular model.

[Nick Sevilla]

Cool blues album and has tons of cool people on it!

Harry Holt played bass on that song and most of the album. Not sure if he's still around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_%26_Brownie

[markjazzbassist]

if you go flats choose Labella, Pyramid, or GHS. Those are the "Old school" sounding flats. Anything is either too bright/modern (D'addario chromes, Dunlop, Thomastik, DR, Fender) or made of different material and doesn't sound the Same (Rotosound uses Monel, not Nickel or Steel).

[Jitters]

Oops! Went with the Dunlops...