This is possibly the best instructional video on how to try a bass guitar at the guitar store. Learn valuable testing skills such as “impress everyone with a Michael Jackson riff” and “drop that E like it’s hot”. After watching this video, you too will become an expert bass guitar tester. And please, show all … Read more
The feature bass this week is from an owner who by his own admission bugged the builder for years until he finally got the J-Bass he wanted (and it’s pretty darned good). Owner Clint Owens writes: My bass was built by Keith Roscoe and the team at Roscoe Guitars. I have known Keith around 15 … Read more
(Editor’s note: This is a contributed article. You can also contribute an article! See details at bottom.) Cleaning and maintaining a bass is easy at home, but what about on the road or at a gig? You can easily create a small cleaning and maintenance kit to fit in your gig bag or case that … Read more
(Editor’s note: This is a contributed article. You can also contribute an article! See details at bottom.) So the truss rod in your bass is shot. It doesn’t work anymore. Maybe it’s from the adjusting nut breaking off. Maybe the rod is stripped. Maybe the rod is broken. There are 2 ways you can fix … Read more
This week’s bass of the week is a very clean Carvin. (Note: The owner of this bass did not state the year the bass was manufactured.) Owner Glenn Bloom writes: This Surf Green Carvin B-40 with matching color headstock and abalone logo was made from alder with a maple neck and special maple fretboard with … Read more
The best way I can describe the Bacchus brand is “Squier for the rest of the world”. For example, if you live in Australia, Squier is actually not cheap and can be tough to come by. But then there’s Bacchus which is usually much more affordable and more available in “down under” territory. While there … Read more
The saying “nobody is perfect” has been said countless times, and it certainly applies to bass players because everyone can make a mistake. Below is Give It Away from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, bass (Flea) and drums only. At the 3:36 mark you hear a mistake by Flea. And it’s a whopper of mistake … Read more
The feature bass this week as in “in work” project in an effort to build an ASAT-like bass that is perfectly balanced. Builder Pete Ryan writes: I’ve read and heard a lot of good thing about the G&L ASAT. A lot of the reviews I have read have been favorable with a notable exception. It … Read more
(Editor’s note: This is a contributed article. You can also contribute an article! See details at bottom.) There is no such thing as an input jack on a bass. It’s an output jack. I purposely made the title have “input jack” just so you know it is WRONG. The proper name is output jack. This … Read more
We put the call out that if anyone wanted to send over some photos of their modified Squier Bronco short scale bass, we’d feature it. Someone did. (Note before continuing: Yes, this builder did slap a Fender logo on a Squier headstock and installed a Fender bolt plate (boo-hiss), but given it’s extremely unlikely anyone … Read more
