This week’s bass of the week is a very clean Carvin. (Note: The owner of this bass did not state the year the bass was manufactured.) Owner Glenn Bloom writes: This Surf Green Carvin B-40 with matching color headstock and abalone logo was made from alder with a maple neck and special maple fretboard with … Read more
The best way I can describe the Bacchus brand is “Squier for the rest of the world”. For example, if you live in Australia, Squier is actually not cheap and can be tough to come by. But then there’s Bacchus which is usually much more affordable and more available in “down under” territory. While there … Read more
The saying “nobody is perfect” has been said countless times, and it certainly applies to bass players because everyone can make a mistake. Below is Give It Away from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, bass (Flea) and drums only. At the 3:36 mark you hear a mistake by Flea. And it’s a whopper of mistake … Read more
The feature bass this week as in “in work” project in an effort to build an ASAT-like bass that is perfectly balanced. Builder Pete Ryan writes: I’ve read and heard a lot of good thing about the G&L ASAT. A lot of the reviews I have read have been favorable with a notable exception. It … Read more
(Editor’s note: This is a contributed article. You can also contribute an article! See details at bottom.) There is no such thing as an input jack on a bass. It’s an output jack. I purposely made the title have “input jack” just so you know it is WRONG. The proper name is output jack. This … Read more
We put the call out that if anyone wanted to send over some photos of their modified Squier Bronco short scale bass, we’d feature it. Someone did. (Note before continuing: Yes, this builder did slap a Fender logo on a Squier headstock and installed a Fender bolt plate (boo-hiss), but given it’s extremely unlikely anyone … Read more
There is much debate on what a proper smooth ’70s bass tone is supposed to sound like. Some believe it’s nothing but P-Bass with the tone rolled off. Others believe it’s J-Bass with a 60/40 blend of rear and front pickup with the tone 3/4 of the way off. And then there’s the active/passive debate … Read more
There are a few bass lines that earn the distinction of being legendary, and the line Chris Squire plays in Roundabout by Yes is one of them. Most people are shocked when they learn Roundabout was released in 1972. Many believe the song to be from the late ’70s or the early ’80s, but no, … Read more
At Best Bass Gear, we don’t do music lessons. That’s why gear is in our name and not lessons. There are however other places on the internet that teach bass lessons, and BassBuzz is one of them. BassBuzz’s lessons are beginner-friendly. They are friendly enough to the point where you don’t have to know how … Read more
Below is a video of a modded Squier Bronco Bass. The stock pickup was swapped out for a dual-rail humbucker and a thumb rest was added. In the latter half of the video, the owner of the bass explains that he bought the bass that way and didn’t do the mod himself… …but does explain … Read more
