"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
Play it on a Tannoy Westminster, or a B+W
Nautilus 802D As the player said "Now you're cooking".

Well yes. All those cabinet resonances make it sound more like a bass
guitar should...

So they meet the expectations. That's the object of the excercise.

As usual, you miss the point. An electric guitar isn't designed to be
listened to from an electrical pickup which just reacts to the strings.
They're made to be listened to via a amp/loudspeaker, which will add to
the sound produced by the pickup. And if your monitoring adds that
colouration to the DI output it will also add it to all the other sources.

The experiment is to show the true sound of a Rickenbacker
5 string fretless bass - not a lead guitar. So, it is not at all
unrerasonable at least for analysis to take the output direct
from the pickup. Often on jazz recordings no amp or mic
is actually used (as I am sure you know, Dave:-)

Iain