Cabinets, Electronics, and hardware for your custom bass guitar configurations.
If you can believe it, Rolling Stone magazine called Rush’s Signals album “mostly a wasted effort“. Crazy, but true. Well, aside from what Rolling Stone thought, some of Geddy’s bass lines were absolutely incredible on this album. One such song that shines is Digital Man. Here’s an isolated bass version (with drums): And since we … Read more
In a recent article we featured an Ibanez fretted/fretless hybrid where the fretless part of the bass has a piezo pickup. We also mentioned that we carry piezo bass bridges. Is the piezo pickup the “secret” to the upright bass sound? The best way to answer that is to say first that nothing sounds like … Read more
Fresh from the NAMM show, MXR showed off the Sub Octave Bass Fuzz pedal. This fuzz pedal features two circuits, meaning it’s not the typical “one trick pony” type of fuzz. It also features separate bass and treble EQ controls, an octave control (of course), dry volume control (totally necessary for bass), has mid-frequency boost, … Read more
Some preamp systems allow for the use of either 9 volts or 18 volts for power. Check the specifications for your preamp to make sure that it is recommended. Some known systems that DO allow for 9 or 18V are: Aguilar OBP2, OBP3; Bartolini NTBT 918, NTMB918, Delano (all); John East (all); ACG (all); Nordstrand … Read more
Generally speaking, the term means that there is a battery in the bass. Most commonly, the battery is being used to power a preamp. The preamp uses a battery and thus the instrument is powered (active). Occasionally, the pickups are active; a bass with active pickups would, of course, also be considered active. Most pickups … Read more
Use this tip sheet if you need to figure out how to wire a long threaded barrel jack into your bass. This sheet covers the long threaded barrel jacks from Switchcraft that we sell, but may be relevant to your bass as well if it has this style of jack. Chrome and gold jacks: The … Read more
Use this tip sheet if you need to need to figure out whether your Ultralights are the version known as 3/8” or 1/2”. There are a couple methods: Remove a tuner and measure the hole that was drilled in the headstock. a 3/8” tuner will have a hole that is 9/16” in diameter a 1/2” … Read more
The following tuners; HB1, HB2, HB3, and HB7 cover several of the harder to identify vintage style tuners found on many of the world’s basses. Whether you are trying to replace the regular tuners or need to identify which detuner to get for your bass, these diagrams will be of help. Typically, just checking the … Read more
I have an older Marcus Miller Signature bass, and it used to be highly susceptible to noise picked up through the vintage single-coil pups (unless they were exactly balanced in volume, and also light buzzing (that would go away when I touched the strings). That’s all gone now. It’s absolutely silent until I thunder a … Read more
Measure from the center of the highest string to the center of the lowest string over the saddles. In the example shown, starting at 100mm and ending at 157mm, the string spacing is about 57mm total. Most commonly, the measurement is given in the string-to-string spacing by bridge manufacturers. It is most accurate to take … Read more
