Interviews with famous and up and coming Bass Players & Luthiers
The feature bass player this week is Danny Horboychuk from Poughkeepsie, New York, USA! We interviewed Danny and asked about his gear, preferred style of play and his bass teaching. How long have you been playing for, and what was your first bass guitar? I started playing later in life compared to a lot of … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here In this part of the video interview, discussion is specifically focused on the Combustion series from Dingwall. This particular instrument came into being as a survival maneuver, according to Sheldon. A Dingwall Combustion series is amazing in the respect it literally goes around the world just to be built. … Read more
The feature bass player for this week is Villis Kabadais from Greece! As you’ll see in the video below, Villis totally knows how to get both the low and the high end separated to make for some great bass sounds. We asked Villis about his bass and gear, and here’s what he had to say: … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here Sheldon discusses what it’s like to design basses. He notes that while it is preferable for the builder to use his own design, that’s usually not what the player (who ultimately buys the instrument) wants. In addition, Sheldon discusses the importance of connecting past designs to present technologies, and … Read more
The week’s feature player is Edo Castro from Mill Valley, California USA. Edo has an extensive range of gear, so we asked him about it. There are also videos below showing him with his custom built instrument. Describe the bass seen in your video (scroll down for video). Who made it? What are the specifications? … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here In this installment, Sheldon from Dingwall Guitars talked about the history of fanned frets, the challenge getting it to work with a 5-string bass guitar (the low B, specifically,) and how taking a look at how pianos are made helped greatly in getting a low B to sound right. … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here For anyone that has ever sold basses they built themselves, you may have had a customer that, without playing a single note, refused delivery of the freshly crafted instrument just received and sent it back. Reasons can vary for why the return happened, and in Sheldon’s story as described … Read more
The feature bass player of the week is Evan Veenstra from Canada, www.evanveenstra.com We interviewed Evan where we asked about his basses, gear and influences, which is below. After the interview is a video of Evan playing using piccolo strings (a very cool sound!) What is the main bass guitar you play, and why do … Read more
See Sheldon Dingwall’s business listing here Just about any fan of bass guitars has heard of Dingwall, a company that builds high-end bass instruments out of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan, Canada. This is an interview series with Sheldon Dingwall himself, and in this first part, Sheldon talks about what originally inspired him to start building bass … Read more
Earnest Mann is the owner of the feature Bass of the Week, the Bayou Basses Swallowtail. This is an instance where we not only were able to get the story of the build from the builder, but also have an interview with the owner of the instrument, who uses it regularly at his church. A … Read more
