Q: string bass Compression / Violin Mic'ing w/ limited equ..

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I find myself in dilemma with 2 problems I was not prepared for. I need
to tame a string bass and can't find a setting to help. It's a
simple need of bringing soft up and load down but I am losing to much
somewhere. He's playing full range on the neck so the high parts
respond much different to the lows and without an automated release
time I can't find a good compromise.

On Violin:
I have only a very limited amount of gear with me and a limited amount
of time to get the track done tomorrow. I have several Oktava's
mk012. 219's - and I have some MXL 603e's, V67's. Rode NTV,
NT1's NT2's and some dynamic mics - MD421 and some agk's. So I
am very limited. I am going for the string sound of a quartet with an
acoustic guitar on top with a love song male vocal.

The bass is tracked already and came out good other then dynamic
control. I only have a set of sp737's for pres with me -

I'm open for ideas (other then buying more microphones)