The upright always needs help in the mix, though it brings plenty of rattles and squeaks and noise which every real acoustic recording has. I do like Trilian's 'Studio Bridge' quite a bit, and the Vintage is great for vintage. Explore Native Instruments Scarbee Rickenbacker Bass in this FREE course bought to you by guitarist/producer Toby Pitman. Based on the Scarbee Red Bass, it makes extensive use of the advanced scripting features introduced with the SCARBEE PRE-BASS. This addition to the ' powered by KONTAKT ' range of instruments is an expertly played and sampled late 70s Jazz bass. They just didn't slice through with that nice resonance that real basses and good preamps have. SCARBEE JAY-BASS is the go-to source for slap and finger bass. Scarbee's tried and trusted implementation is further enhanced by the built-in effects, obviating the need for external plug-ins to sculpt the sound, although that option is always open to you and, indeed, a good bass-amp simulator extends the sonic possibilities even further. Older 'Red' samples were 16 bit (I believe) and a little too soft I thought. With Scarbee, I can add just a touch of Massey Tape-Head or some other good distortion, along with a little compression, and they really sit nicely. Integrated documentation for all settings - direct in the instrument user interface. EQ and Effect Presets - direct in the instrument user interface. Bass recorded DI to give you maximum flexibility in the sound production. Trilian basses still tend to have some of that overprocessed sound which plagued much of Trilogy and it's tough or impossible to remove if you feel that it needs to be. The user can set the probability of a pickup-hit to occur.

I've spent an awful lot of time with each library (Scarbee Red and Blue, and also Trilian) and if I had to choose (luckily I don't have to) I'd go with Scarbee. I'm curious if any of you have both Trillian and Scarbee and can comment on their differences.

This addition to the 'powered by KONTAKT' range of instruments is an expertly played and sampled late 70s Jazz bass. I've been using the Kontakt Scarbee basses for a while and I just can't seem to get the tone I want. SCARBEE JAY-BASS is the go-to source for slap and finger bass.