When I got my first bass 16 years ago, I still lived with my parents and could not make too much noise. Thus, while I had an amplifier for my bass, I ended up using it far less than I would have...
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I started playing bass 14 years ago because I was immediately drawn to both the sound and look of it. Becoming a bassist seemed like a no-brainer, as the bass looked and sounded bigger than the...
At some point, we bassists have all drooled over a high-end bass that was out of our price range. Maybe our favorite musician played it, we loved how it sounded, or we simply thought it looked...
Like most bassists, I have always gravitated towards the 4-string. I started off on a cheap 4-string and have mainly stuck to 4-strings for the 14 years I have been playing bass. Still, I have found...
The bass guitar is a heavy instrument that provides the low end in a band. Metal is a genre where instruments get tuned down and there are a lot of low-end and heavy riffs. Thus, on the surface metal...
Whenever I have the pleasure of trying a new bass, I am quick to try out how different playstyles sound on it. Playing fingerstyle or with a pick never sounds the same on any 2 basses, but the one...