The feature bass this week comes from a builder rekindling his hobby for the craft. Builder/owner Greg writes: I haven’t built or modified much on an instrument in over 20 years and recently rekindled my hobby. This project is a re-body of a bolt on budget bass, replacing everything but the neck and machine heads … Read more
The feature bass for this week combines design cues from MusicMan, PRS and several personal touches. Alden, the owner of this bass who had Aeris Guitars build the instrument for him, writes: I was looking to purchase a new bass and wanted something different from my MusicMan that sounded and played just like it. Aeris … Read more
This week’s feature bass comes from Elash Cisse at Aash Bass Guitars, with a video demo! For more information other than what is shown here, you can visit their web site at www.aashbass.com. (The video demo of the instrument is after the photos below.) Elash writes: Aash basses guitars are made by choosing the appropriate … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s feature bass is a Rickenbacker inspired 5-string. Builder Steven Baxter writes: This Tiberius-5 bass was built by Steven Baxter the founder of Dudacus Custom Basses located in Cambridge, MA. Steven has been involved in the greater Boston music scene and making his own instruments … Read more
Ordinarily, we keep clear of any video game references, but this is an exception just because it sounds cool. Team Fortress 2 is a video game, but it’s main theme is Peter Gunn inspired, which of course has great bass tone to it. The video below shows how to play along with the TF2 main … Read more
You’ve heard the phrase “it’s all in the fingers” when it comes to guitars both for 6-string and bass. This player certainly proves that correct. The Yamaha TRBX174 is, quite literally, a $200 bass. Yes, $200. Not $2,000. Is the TRBX174 good for you, however? That’s for you to decide. However, it would seem that … Read more
The word octave was purposely put in the title of this article because some players hear “8 string,” and believe that means a tuning of something like F# B E A D G B E. That’s not what this is. This is a 4-string doubled with 4 more octave strings, as in eE aA dD … Read more
While we rattled off 5 cool bass lines of the 90’s here, another band that had some great hits with great bass lines was The Mighty Mighty Bosstones with their song The Impression That I Get. The verse bass line is definitely one of the coolest out there. It’s involved-yet-not-too-involved, has a great groove to … Read more
I remember it as if it were a meal ago (that will make sense in a moment.) Fun fact: 1999 was 16 years ago. Yep. But don’t let that make you feel old, because every one of the songs below is still as cool and fresh today as they were when originally released back in … Read more
See the business listing for this bass builder here This week’s bass guitar of the week shows that getting projects done can do a wonder of good. Bass builder Steve writes: I heard one of my mentors, Anthony Wellington, say at a clinic that a player owes it to his/her instrument to know everything he/she … Read more
