Difussion Audio presents Sandberg Basses 2012 line at Winter NAMM 2012!
New from Warwick in 2012 the Robert Trujillo Artist Series Bass
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
New Warwick Robert Trujillo Artist Series Bass at Winter NAMM 2012!
Markbass Introduced New Amps and Pedals at NAMM
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Markbass unveiled its new products for 2012 at a press conference at the NAMM show in Anaheim, California on January 19th. Included are three new heads and four new effect pedals. Here’s an overview: Big Bang – a 500W microhead, 4.7 lbs, with a solid-state preamp and a cutting-edge new design of digital power amp [...]
How to Choose Your Next Electric Bass by Igor Saavedra
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How to Choose YourNext Electric Bass… In this article I’ll give you an ordered list starting by the most important factors, in my opinion, that we have to consider when it comes the time to purchase our next bass. I think that this article is really very important, because many times I’ve seen students or even [...]
There and Back Again My Weekend with the Gruv Gear Stadium Bag by Jonathan Moody
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been referring to it as my “perfect storm” of gigs; eight in three days. It was probably the only time when I had a legitimate argument for having three amps. Getting through this was going to require a lot of careful planning; I had different gear to use in three different settings, as outlined [...]
Jammit by Eric Parsons
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Jammit… Picture this: You’re in your practice room trying to figure out a bass line from the original recording. You’ve almost got it, but there are a few phrases you just can’t nail because other instrumental parts are masking the notes in question. Well, what if you could literally strip away everything but the bass track [...]
Elixir Strings Introduces New Stainless Steel and Improved Nickel-Plated Coated Bass Strings
January 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Elixir® Strings, the pioneer in coated string technology, announces two changes to its bass string line. Elixir Strings for bass are now available in coated stainless steel, with the bright, clear tone typical of stainless bass strings, but easier on the fingers and with a much longer tone life. The original nickel-plated Elixir Strings for [...]
Aguilar Unveils Tone Hammer 350 at NAMM
January 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Aguilar’s Tone Hammer® 350 will make its public unveiling this week at booth #5956 at the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim, CA. Sporting the legendary “Aguilar Sound” in a tiny package, the Tone Hammer 350 is a TKO (Tonal Knockout)! Following on the heels of the massively successful Tone Hammer 500 amplifier, the Tone Hammer 350 [...]
Ritter Instruments Presents R8-Singlecut Bass
January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Jens Ritter of Ritter Instruments Presents R8-Singlecut Bass… It’s a bold-on-construction singlecut body shape with a very dynamic and fine balanced design.It features his new Electronics RITTER C-3-S, and active/passive switchable 3-Band with custom adjusted frequencies and integrated boost which can be controlled by the musician. You can see the R8-Singlecuts live at NAMM Show at booth location: HALL C – Booth [...]
Kala Introduces New Electric Acoustic U-Basses
January 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Kala Introduces New Electric Acoustic U-Basses… Kala adds more bass with less space with the addition of five new models to the U-BASS™ line of Acoustic Electric 21” scale bass instruments. New models include Sunburst, Gloss Black, Solid Spruce Top HH (Hutch Hutchinson Model), Spalted Maple, and Exotic Mahogany. The Sunburst, Spruce Top HH, and Gloss [...]
