Why don't more people use double bass...

>I don't know what you mean by depth
you can hear the sounds being echoed around in the instrument, you can hear the strings being plucked, things like that. Although maybe all this could just be attributed to people who bother to use double bass bothering to record it well

Impractical, cumbersome, and limited in output.

Then the answer to your question is that most people aren't looking for those qualities in their basslines. I know I don't because they'll just get lost in the noise of everything else going on. I'll choose the lower end and longer sustain of a bass guitar over the woody tone and rhythmic thump of the double bass.
Not like I can afford, transport, or learn a double bass anyway.

>they'll get lost in the noise of everything
As if a regular bass doesn't get lost in the mix too. I feel like its rare to find people who actually pay close attention to the bass in general from a production perspective. Lots of music seems to favor the melodies of a guitar over a healthy balance between guitar and bass, at least it seems like to me.

Unrelated to the bass guitar, double bass is the chad orchestral instrument. Fuck violins, violas, and cellos.

Too much string rattle
Sounds like shit when played higher up the neck

i love the sound of this instrument. does anyone have some melancholy, or darker sounding songs utilizing it?

There really are no bass that looks better then a jazz bass desu, maybe Fodera

Most music I like has great bass. I'm a bassist myself so it's important to me, and I find there's no shortage of it. Maybe if you're a metal fan.

youtu.be/YBazYH9mDGg

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>As if a regular bass doesn't get lost in the mix too.
It's not that the entire bass sound gets lost, but the nuances you're describing. And the Electric bass has more options for being heard, and you can do things that kind of emulate the sound 'enough' while being a much more convenient instrument.

You know how people make fun of bass guitar players for not being good enough to play guitar? Well, upright bass is even harder than guitar and it's also expensive as fuck and gigantic and heavy. Imagine trying to take one on a road trip.

>Because it only has one sound
>He doesnt play double bass with the bow

youtu.be/Qq9htCDF7Dg
Pretty sure this is upright bass

Meant for

I find the electric bass sounds rather silly. When used for anything other than accompanying an electric guitar it makes it sound like it's from some educational video for children or something.

>cant have effects added to it
Yes you can.

I never got this meme, practically every bass player I know started with guitar then switched once they gave bass a shot and felt it suited them better.
I'm more on the guitar side myself but I can see who some people would fall in love with bass, it's fun and you don't have to be hyperfocused the way you do with harder guitar stuff.

It's a large, delicate, temperamental instrument that's much harder to play, and nearly impossible to learn without professional instruction aka classical training.

Most people can't even be assed to use acoustic guitars just for the large, delicate, and temperamental factor. That's multiplied by tenfold for classical isntruments.

That's more because of the electronics being used with electric basses. An electric bass is a plank of wood that holds strings and frets in place, the electronics like magnetic and piezo pickups, EQs, amps, and speaker cabs are variable and interchangeable. Like guitarists have it in their heads that a vacuum tube fart is "good tone", bassists think a sterile fundamental note or even literally a fucking square wave is "good tone". Not because it's good, but because it was the de-facto standard in pop music for half a century. Really noisy pop music where nuanced sound would get lost anyways.

You can definitely get more natural sounds out of electric instruments but people choose not to.