Proof that you don’t need an expensive bass to get great tone, YouTube user Sanitys Void rocks out using an under-$400 Jackson JS3. The fact this sounds any good at all using a camera microphone is actually quite impressive. What would you upgrade on this bass? Drop in some EMG 35 pickups, perhaps? 🙂
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass is a 5-string headless. Builder Jeff Ziebart writes: This is a neck through 5-string I built featuring a 5 piece center section of padauk, eastern maple, and wenge between walnut veneers. The fingerboard is cocobolo bound with bloodwood and the 24 frets … Read more
When it comes to recording the bass guitar direct, a bass DI is the go-to stomp box for that sort of thing. However, if you ever run into the situation where you don’t have your favorite DI box at-the-ready (or if yours broke for whatever reason,) you can plug in to your guitar player’s multi-effects … Read more
This week’s feature bass is a custom model from builder Guglielmo Mariotti that was originally inspired by features from the Music Man Bongo 5 bass. Frederik writes: First time I met Guglielmo, he was playing with The Watch and my band was support act for their show. We had a long talk and G told … Read more
Can you build a bass out of a 2×4? Indeed you can… …although you may prefer your bass guitars with just a tad more body mass to them. 🙂
A tool that comes provided with the Cruz Tools GrooveTech Bass Player Tech Kit is a steel ruler. For many builders and modders, this is actually one of the most-used tools. Why? Because that little ruler will also measure bridge saddle height, pickup pole piece height and something many don’t take into consideration, string action … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is based on a Japanese sword. Builder Sergey Poedinko writes: This bass was inspired by Japanese longsword daikatana. Its body and neck is made from two pieces of Sapele with Pao Ferro reinforcement in between. The neck has two … Read more
It is typical that many 5-string basses have a flappy low B string. Why is this? That’s what we’ll attempt to answer here. Before we get into that, here’s a quick tip. On a 4-string bass, you can get away with tuning to B-E-A-D, but the strings may be too loose for your liking. In … Read more
You’ve heard the phrase “it’s all in the fingers” when it comes to guitars both for 6-string and bass. This player certainly proves that correct. The Yamaha TRBX174 is, quite literally, a $200 bass. Yes, $200. Not $2,000. Is the TRBX174 good for you, however? That’s for you to decide. However, it would seem that … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is another superexotic build by Geo Kitta. Geo writes: This bass is called the Supernova. I designed it after my USA ’93 Fender American Standard 22 fret Jazz bass. (pic of both also included below ) The 22 fret … Read more
