This week’s bass guitar of the week is a super-exotic from Finland. Builder Tuli writes: TULI 5-String Fretless Chamberbass Specs Scale: 33” Top Plate: AAAA Bookmatched Karelian Masur Birch Back and Neck: Thermo Treated flamed Arctic Birch Finish: Hand applied oil and wax Pre-amp: NOLL TCM-3 active 3-band Pick-up: Delano 5-string Humbucker encased in Masur … Read more
While at NAMM 2015, we did get the opportunity to try out the La Bella Olinto bass guitar, and yes, we can confirm it’s a great instrument. Chicago Music Exchange posted a demo of this particular bass so you can hear for yourself what it sounds like. If you’ve been shopping around for a high-end … Read more
Jack Marshall sent us in this article of his bass modifications. Thanks, Jack! If you’d like to contribute your own tips-and-tricks or informational or modification article, send it on over to editor@bestbassgear.com. You can send over your article as a Word DOC/DOCX, LibreOffice ODT (free!) document, OpenOffice ODT (free!) document or exported document saved from … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is a 5-string short scale! Cool! Builder Joe Kruse from MBJ Guitars writes: Build a short scale 5 string? Why not?! My goal with this instrument was to build something compact and utilitarian while still retaining an air of … Read more
While we rattled off 5 cool bass lines of the 90’s here, another band that had some great hits with great bass lines was The Mighty Mighty Bosstones with their song The Impression That I Get. The verse bass line is definitely one of the coolest out there. It’s involved-yet-not-too-involved, has a great groove to … Read more
I remember it as if it were a meal ago (that will make sense in a moment.) Fun fact: 1999 was 16 years ago. Yep. But don’t let that make you feel old, because every one of the songs below is still as cool and fresh today as they were when originally released back in … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week is 26 frets of Jazz style goodness. Builder Rob Vaughn writes: This is the third model bass I’ve made, It’s a neck through 34″ jazz style. The neck is solid flamed maple with mahogany veneers on the headstock cut … Read more
So you’ve upgraded your bass with some awesome Bartolini or Delano or Nordstrand or any other number of our great pickups, and now it’s time to upgrade your skills. One way to give your skills an upgrade is by learning what is known as the ghost note. This is a note that is nothing more … Read more
For those who follow Fender as the standard for what a bass guitar should be, the number of frets they use is 20. The number of frets is easy to spot on necks that have fret markers. After the 12th fret, there are 3 single-dot markers that mark where the 15th, 17th and 19th frets … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here For a first bass build, this is pretty darned good. (It is most likely true the builder has previous guitar building experience, and this is his first specific bass guitar instrument.) Builder John Fife writes: My brother commissioned me to build this bass for his son … Read more
