What is an “active” bass?
Generally speaking, if your bass uses a battery to power your preamp, it’s active.
Gear
Cabinets, Electronics, and hardware for your custom bass guitar configurations.
How to calculate your bridge spacing
Measuring your bridge to figure out your string spacing and your string-to-string spacing, in either MM or inches.
Ask a Tech: Do I need a preamp?
“I am building a 5-string bass and want to put two EMG 40DC pickups in it. I see they come with volume and tone knobs, so do I need to buy a preamp as well? If I don’t need a preamp, is there an advantage to buying one?”
Ask a Tech: Cheap Bass to Compliment Victor Wooten Retrofit Combo
“I’d love to hear some recommendations for a cheap bass with decent action that the Victor Wooten Retrofit Combo compliments nicely?”
7 Tips and Tricks for installing the Victor Wooten Retrofit Combo
In the video Max will walk you through the installation from start to finish, with some great tips and tricks
Vertigo: the new top-loading case from Mono
Sometimes something new makes so much sense you can’t believe no one had thought of it before. The Vertigo, the world’s first Top-Loading Case is jut one of those things.
Up-Tuning with Hipshot Xtenders
I had the idea of using it as an “up-tuner” instead of a “de-tuner”. I can then play in standard tuning and with a simple flick of my thumb I can tune my low B string all the way up to a D!
ACG preamps return to Best Bass Gear
They’re back. After some time being unavailable, ACG’s filter based preamps can be ordered at Best Bass Gear once again.
Nix the noise without killing the tone with Aguilars new pickups
Thanks to the split-coil design of the 4J-HC and 5J-HC you can play with whatever volume level combination you need to without that unwanted hum, and without wrecking your natural tone.
Taking the Tone Hammer on a test drive
When I first pulled the Tone Hammer 500 micro-amp out of the box, I thought they had mistakenly left out the internal components. It’s only four pounds and it feels as light as a feather.
