Another month down. But we’ve got a recap of August in case you missed anything of the discussion, custom basses, or great bass gear.
Our awesome tech Max sat down and talked with Tom Ambrose, who has a rich career as a bassist. He has been classical trained as an upright bassist, played with B.B. King once, taught scores of young players, and is currently gigging with the Rick Miller Band and singer/songwriter Travis Humphrey.
I started to be able to control the electric bass in a way that was musical to me. I started to find my voice on the electric bass. And once that started to happen I started to get really into figuring out the right combination of basses, strings, amps, and pickups. I got really obsessed with it for about 8 years. I’ve owned hundred. Hell, at least a 100 Lakland basses. And I’ve owned many combinations of amps, including Phil Jones, Eden, Epiphone. I just tried so many different combinations of amps and electronics.
We had some laughs with a few memes, asking how to get a drummer off your front porch and letting you know what can happen when you solo on bass.
And in a video How-to Max also walked us through installing the Victor Wooten Retrofit combo, and gave us some great tips and tricks along the way.
We also had some great Bass of the Week submissions. Peter Jeraj had a custom fretted/fretless pair of basses, Mark Bombard had a beautiful semi-hollowbody, and Philippe Mastrogiusepee custom built his bass with a Torzal Twist neck from Little Guitars.
And we took at look at hearing damage, which prompted a great discussion on Facebook about wearing hearing protection.
August was great month in the bass community. You can see even more of what’s happening recently here at e:Bass by checking our different sections. And if you like what you see and you’d like to see this kind of stuff in your email inbox, head over and sign up for our weekly e:Bass newsletter.
