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Yes! Firehawk can get an upright bass out of my five string electric! The best thing about Firehawk is that it has so much variety and flexibility, and the bluetooth remote editor puts it all together so effortlessly. Imagine having a room full of kit, patching and adjusting it all by hand. As with most effects for bass, it really depends on your instrument and how you combine the effects stages. The Firehawk even inspired me to rip the EQ-III preamp and battery out of my bass and jumper the pickups to the bal pot to the vol pot to the jack to go passive. I let Firehawk do all the conditioning now. I published GastronomyDN to Line 6 Cloud, which you can find in Firehawk Remote Tone Search. Let me present my GastronomyDN upright bass "tone", as Line 6 likes to call patch setups, like a no-bake cookie recipe. I'll give you the dry and wet ingredients and basic recipe. I will leave it to you to adjust the proportions to your taste. Get out the dry ingredients: the Gate, 1972 Silverface Bass amp, 4x12 Line 6 cabinet, and semi-parametric EQ. Then gather your wet ingredients: Octave Fuzz HD stomp, Jet Flanger mod, and Phaze Eko delay (optional Chamber reverb). Add them in this order with these relative proportions: Gate, with 100% decay and only enough threshold to cancel out ring and touchiness (-76 dB? I have Bartolini MK-1 pickups). Octave Fuzz HD with no drive, all bass, no mid or treb. Then Jet Flanger, maybe 1/2 mix, 1/3 depth, 2/3 Feedback, and I don't know what Manual does ... try 1/5. Follow with Phaze Eko, keep around 1/4 mix and feedback, 2/9 speed and 4/9 depth. If you like reverb, add it here. Chamber reverb will soften it up to float underneath other instruments (experimental). Amp/Cab is next-to-last, drive/bass/treb/presence at 1/2-ish, mid to 1/9, vol full, and cab sliders to the right (67 mic w/reflections). Use EQ next in line, boost low, squelch the open string harmonics. Note that EQ and Gate go hand-in-hand, even though they are at opposite ends of the chain. I use Vol last on the pedal, max range. Put Delay, Mod, Drive and Reverb on the footswitches (save with Reverb switched off, others on). I assigned one of those Mix sliders, maybe for Phaze Eko, to the FX knob. Can't tell, just looking at remote, not hooked up to Firehawk right now. It adjusts how crisp or chewy the sound turns out. Use your pickup bal as a vintage (bridge) / contemporary (neck) dial. Gets you from the 40s to this century.