Now consider your average bedroom showoff slap dickhead. Stick both feeds in the drum buss, mixes itself. Meanwhile a DI signal could be hi-passed and compressed with vigour, for all the mid & high frequency excitement. His dynamic range was actually very controlled, and what came through the mic'd amp was mostly pure, fundamental, proper bass. I say this having mixed a slap bass player who actually knew his job. Meanwhile, who do you think is providing the bottom end of the track if not you?'
'Listen, you moron, that pickety-pickety-pickety is stuff is all well and good, but its in the frequency range of lots of other things.
I have found slap bass players too often belong to that group of musicians who haven't even considered that someone needs to mix, and don't 'get it' when you try to explain. Dipping at 300 may well be a good idea, but I'd say control rather than just EQ is what's needed on the top end. I'm afraid I think EQ bibles are of limited use.
