Cabinets, Electronics, and hardware for your custom bass guitar configurations.
VOX’s amPhone series is a set of headphones which literally puts an amplifier inside the headset. And, as it turns out, there’s a bass model. Even Victor Wooten did a video on it: I was thinking to myself, “Y’know… I’ve seen this tech somewhere before…” Then I remember, yeah I did. It was called the … Read more
With bass guitar strings, there is no question that roundwound is always the most-available. No matter where you shop for strings, roundwound will always be there and always outnumber any other string type you could buy… …but that’s not to say you couldn’t experiment with a different type of string such as flatwound or halfround. … Read more
Over the weekend our illustrious leader Max put this together: …and this is what it used to look like: Yes, it is completely functional, and yes there is now a battery box in the back where there wasn’t one before, but the point is this: This totally dives into what you would call “heavy modification” … Read more
Mudbucker is to the best of my knowledge not a brand but just a nickname given to a very particular type of pickup. The mudbucker originally gets its name from the early-1960s Gibson EB series; a bass usually with only one pickup, being this absolutely gigantic thing in the neck position and absolutely slammed right … Read more
While Max was at NAMM he took a bunch of photos (with more coming on the way), and when he saw the above little 15-watt offering from Ashdown Engineering, he snapped a photo and purposely put his sunglasses on top of it just to give you an idea of how small this thing is. The … Read more
Ray-Lin asked on Facebook: I was wondering if you could talk about the difference between standard strings, taper core strings and exposed core strings? “Standard” means “conventional construction”, which means “roundwound” (or “full contact”) string. Taper-Core is where the outer wrap ends at the bridge, leaving only the inner wrap left, and that inner wrap … Read more
The main reason why any player carries around batteries in his or her gig bag is for pedals and/or for an active pickup system. For pedals in particular, when you want the least signal noise, you use 9-volt batteries instead of an external power source for the reason that it skirts around any wonky stage … Read more
You’ll notice in the sales verbiage for many higher-end bass guitars that the word “quartersawn” is thrown out there quite a bit (usually in reference to the neck). Does quartersawn wood really matter in the build of a bass guitar, and if so, how? Before I answer that, I’ll tell you what quartersawn wood actually … Read more
Push/pull knobs made of metal presents a potential problem in that static can be transferred and be part of the signal. In other words, when touching the knob you won’t hear any static noises, but when turning, you may hear a static scratching noise. The first reaction by many when they hear this scratching noise … Read more
A pickup can produce popping noises from human touch if the magnets or pole pieces aren’t grounded correctly, or not grounded well enough. One solution to this is to, and I’m directly quoting here, “apply conductive copper foil with conductive adhesive against the bottom of the pickups and run a new wire to ground.” That … Read more
