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As many of you out there have seen, there have been some site changes going on with Best Bass Gear, and this includes the forms for Bass of the Week and the Business Tech Directory. Both of these features now have new forms that are much easier to use. Bass of the Week Entry Form … Read more
Said up front: The first 2 minutes of this will be ridiculously easy (read: boring.) It’s after the first 2 minutes where the groove kicks in on the bass. The Who did have a few songs where you know what it is the moment you hear it, but the name of the song is difficult … Read more
A nice follow-up from Slapping a bass in the jungle, kid’s TV show style, National Geographic very recently released How Bass Guitars Are Made from their MAKING STUFF video series. Yes, this video is for kids, but it’s very cool that National Geographic did this. It’s also very cool how they presented the information in … Read more
For those of you out there who ever thought there should be more bass guitar in children’s television programming, well, it actually happened. There is a BBC television program called ZingZillas on the “CBeebies” channel. And very recently, there was a show clip released on YouTube showing an entire segment dedicated to the bass guitar. … Read more
Note to those across the pond: In America and Canada, we spell this metal as aluminum, and in America pronounce it as in uh-loo-mih-numm. Yes, we know in other parts of the world it is spelled as aluminium and spoken as al-you-minn-ee-uhm or sometimes al-you-mih-neeyum. We don’t say or spell it that way. Deal with … Read more
The weight of a bass guitar is something that’s a lot more important than most people realize. A bass that isn’t the right weight can make the playing experience miserable. If the instrument is too heavy, it will hurt your shoulder when playing standing and hurt your leg when playing seated. If the instrument is … Read more
No, it’s not an SG, it’s an SB. This particular bass was only manufactured for 2 model years, features single-coil pickup goodness, on/off toggle switches for both pickups and a bridge cover that’s difficult to locate these days (it’s a rare part). Does it sound good? As you’ll hear in the video below, yes it … Read more
Below: While the neck is clamped securely in place, the neck itself is used as a template guide, and at this point we stick the template physically to the body using double-sided tape. The tape being used is carpet tape. 3M brand carpet tape is recommended, but if that particular brand is not available where … Read more
…says the man who bought a Cort B4 Artisan with Bartolini MK1 pickups in it in the video below. And yes, we do carry this particular shape along with several others. Describing a pickup’s tone as “bright” does make sense as that describes the treble side of things. Describing a sound as “accurate” could mean … Read more
In this part of our build-a-bass series, an example of how to route a neck pocket into body is done using a 5-string layout with a short neck. Even though this is atypical compared to a standard 4-string body with long scale 34-inch neck, the process is still the same when it comes to getting … Read more
