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. They just didn't slice through with that nice resonance that real basses and good preamps have. On the screen with Options, please open Options and check the bottom 2 boxes before running. Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read. The program was created by etresoft, a frequent contributor. Older 'Red' samples were 16 bit (I believe) and a little too soft I thought. Try running this program in your normal account, then copy and paste the output in a reply.
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.
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. 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. I've been using the Kontakt Scarbee basses for a while and I just can't seem to get the tone I want.
