Essential Bass Pedals: Spice up your Bottom End
Before we crack on, let’s get this out of the way… Bass guitar effects pedals aren’t for everyone! While effects pedals are used exensively on electric guitars, some bassists just want as little as possible…
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Back to Basics: How to restring a guitar
Newbie, intermediate player, seasoned pro or somewhere in between, at some point you’re going to want to change your electric, acoustic or bass guitar strings. For most guitarists, the process becomes automatic – you could…
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Sterling by Music Man Stingray Short Scale Bass Review
In our recent best short scale bass review, we shone the spotlight on seven of the best instruments out there. It was a closely fought contest but our deserved winner was the Sterling by Music…
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Slide on over: The Best Fretless Bass revealed
So who’s your favorite fretless bass player and what song makes you want to rip all the frets off your fretted electric bass with wanton abandon? I guess we’ve all got our quintessentially favorite fretless…
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Best Short Scale Bass: Size isn’t everything
An electric bass guitar, for the most part, is an inherently big instrument. That’s due to the larger scale length (typically around 34″) that bass guitar designers have, over the years, determined to be the…
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In at the low end: the best acoustic bass revealed
So who would buy an acoustic bass guitar? After all, electric players could argue that an electric bass can be used in just about any situation from a full-blown stadium gig to the corner of…
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