Upright Bass

Hello everyone. I'm trying to achieve a realistic upright bass sound and need a little help with the "natural" eq frequencies. I'm using the free Proteus VX VSTi which has several upright bass patches and with very little tweaking actually sound very nice. I have the attack of the strings around 1k Hz but really don't know just how much low end an upright bass actually carries. I started with a low cut at 40 Hz, and it sounds nice and full, but I don't know if an upright goes down this low - or if it does, how strong in dB's it is here. Can anyone with more upright experience help out? I understand that this will of course be project specific but I'm just looking for a general starting point. Oh yeah, I should also mention that I'm going for a more rockabilly type sound rather than jazz. Thanks.

Some stuff here to have a look at

Thanks for the replies and links guys. I already have a good amount of slapback delay on the guitar track so I fear that adding more to the bass might be too much. I'll still give it a try though. Actually, the upright basses that come with Proteus VX are pretty good. I just needed to see where an actual upright falls in the frequency spectrum. I would like to find a recording of an upright playing by itself and analyze the spectrum. All the recordings I have, the upright is mixed in with all other instruments (Nekromantix, Tiger Army, Stray Cats). Still, I'll give your suggestions a go dub. Thanks again guys.

I use that VST for bass myself (different style altogether though), and I totally concur with cutting around 150.

Hey guys, when you wrote cut around 150 Hz, did you's mean to just cut a bit around here or remove everything below 150 HZ? Thanks.

That would be a band cut Floydd