so bass traps in corners do nothing, it seems we have been fooled. or are being fooled.

@asctim: Drums is my main instrument.

I've personally known only one bassist who went from electric to acoustic upright bass: Todd Phillips, who has worked with a lot of the modern Bluegrass masters. Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, David Grisman, etc. In 1971 he was playing a Fender P Bass in a band he was leaving just as I was entering. He did so to concentrate on learning mandolin, so went up to Marin to study with Grisman. David told Todd there were already a lot of great mandolin players, but a dearth of upright bassists. Todd took his advice, got himself an upright, and has been working steady ever since.

The one guy I know of who played (R.I.P.) a non-upright electric fretless bass (an Ampeg) was Rick Danko of The Band. Rick is one of my favorite musicians. And one player who makes his fretted electric bass sound uncannily like an upright is Joey Spampinato of NRBQ. He is another of my favorite players, and is Keith Richard's favorite bassist. When Bill Wyman left The Stones Keith offered him the job, and Joey turned him down! But he did agree to play in the band Richards assembled to back Chuck Berry in the Hail! Hail! Rock'n' Roll documentary on Chuck.

@asctim: Hi Tim. I played in a Blues trio with a bassist who had an electric upright bass. It didn’t sound much different than a regular electric bass (the neck was fretless of course), but looked kinda cool. Hey, did you ever play music with Chris (I can’t recall his last name), who used to work at ASC? I knew him when he lived in L.A. The last time I saw him was at the Vegas CES in the late-90’s, where he was supplying a lot of the rooms with Tube Traps. We met in the bar of the hotel to catch up.

By the way, in the early-90’s there was an ad in The Recycler (a weekly buy/sell newspaper in SoCal), offering Tube Traps for ten bucks a piece! I called the phone number, and arranged to go to the seller’s house immediately. I got there and found a guy in a empty house, all except for 13 of the Traps, ranging in size from 9" (diameter of course) up to 16". Naturally I bought ’em all. Best deal I ever got in hi-fi!

Below 60Hz is sub-bass? The lowest frequency produced by a standard 4-string bass (acoustic and electric; why do people insist on calling an electric bass a bass "guitar"? That’s an oxymoron!)---the E string played "open"---is 41Hz. That’s not sub-bass, that’s bass.