I would be wanting to connect that bass directly to a good sound card and use some good audio analyzer software that contains Real Time Analysis and other spectrum graphics to see what's going on before drawing any conclusions. If I didn't have a contact mic, I'd likely just make do by pressing the body or bridge tightly against any flat response mic I have and try to take a sample that way.

I'd also want to use a flat contact mic on it and run the same tests again, in order to find out what the differences may be in what is inherent in the strings body and bridge vs what the actual pickup is doing. Although I'd be willing to bet that the pickup is not the culprit. I'm thinking it is the string composition and length that is giving it the Dano bass sound. And that may be something you will just have to live with then.

Don't misunderstand, sounding like a Dano is not a knock. Countless hit songs were recorded on the Dano Electric Bass at one time, sometimes even in conjunction with String Bass where both would play the exact same parts at the same time, the old "Tic Tac" bass prominent on many a recording from the era. And it would work good in bluegrass as well. After all, the Dano bass and the Dano guitars were even used by some prominent Jazz and Bebop players for a short time and nobody complained.


--Mac

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