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.

Dont stop deep when he has an opportunity to make statements about social and economic inequities. Remember this is about Foley not other white collar criminals so his attempt at distraction is lame. Several posts on other sites about Foley taking money and not delivering the product. Suits filed evidently.

https://trackingangle.com/equipment/asc-tube-traps-for-life

here's another take on it

About 20 years ago I bought the Behringer measurement mic and the thing that let you compare the signal to what the mic heard.  I made 27 Risch style bass traps and had it all in the basement of my first house.  Traps definitely do make a measurable difference but you need a ton of them.  I'd say it's practically impossible to fix the bad resonances any basement will have.  You can EQ them out, which I did to +-1db.  It sounded weird, though.  I eventually gave up on heavy EQ.  The best thing for bass is to live in a house that is light construction.  Plain wood frame, drywall.  You still have resonances but a lot of the energy escapes through the walls.  Then add some traps and light EQ if you want to.  Placement is very important.  

I plan to do wall damp in my room but have been too lazy to start this project. This would seem to be a great place to start.