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I've tried a Peavey T40 and I've tried a couple old Voxes, which came close, but I just don't know how to pull off the classic Ric tone on the cheap. Is the sound mostly from the body? From the electronics, the pickups, what? I'm dying to find that killer glassy yet deep tone but I can't...

One of Bongo's favorites for bass. In excellent condition, no issues, power supply included. Asking $150 plus shipping.

I bought this guitar earlier this year from a guy who had dozens of basses. He said that this one had been sitting in its case, under a bed, for the past 20 years. After looking the bass over, I realized that he was serious. Aside from a millimeters long indentation on the back of the neck...

Long scale hollow body bass guitar, Vox's top of the line, played by the likes of John Entwistle of the Who and Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone. The Ox playing this bass on 'My Generation': Features: two very hot chrome Ferro Sonic pickups, pickup selector, two volume and...

I bought a bass off a guy on CL a while ago, and checked it out in a Guitar Center to see if it was worth buying. Plugged it into a number of amps and the Ampegs they had sounded utterly anemic through the 8x10. The cheapie new Acoustics sounded way better, but still nothing like my good old...

I have a beastly solid state that doesn't distort and I'd like to get just a slight overdriven sound - not really into the metal distortion sounds though. Good example here in the first song (the others are killer too, esp. when Steve Winwood sings with the Spencer Davis Group! Amazing):

Hey there, quick question. So I like a nice boomy, thumpy sound that is felt as much as heard, and I found the right amps for the job - an Acoustic 450 and a 270, running through Acoustic 2x15 and 1x18 cabs. I've found when running the whole rig together, it is, not surprisingly, pretty...

Some bass tones are described as piano-like and some are described as upright-like - I would describe the Latin American stuff I hear on the radio as tuba-like, and damn it all if I'm not really fond of the stuff. Most of the songs aren't much to listen to (though some are fun, like the one...

What's the most expensive bass you've seen listed? Seems like they'd be 'historic' basses put up for auction at Sotheby's... Anyway, I thought of this because there's this 1960 Rickenbacker 4000 on eBay selling for... drum roll please... $29,800...

1. Has the rich low end tone and thump of a Precision but without the 'fartiness' and 'over-familiarity' of the Fender P-bass sound. 2. Has the 'zing' and 'tightness' of a Rickenbacker, as heard, for example, in 'Oh ho It's Magic' by Pilot. 3. Has something of the warmth and woody tone of...

It was the Walkabout head in pretty good cosmetic condition and I snagged it because the price was so good. I didn't bother playing it beforehand because I figured they must have already checked it out before selling, and in any case they have a no-questions-asked return policy. So I plugged...

This is a newer model with the Lakland pickups - HOWEVER, the pickups just up and died for no apparent reason. I have replaced them with Fat Tone Fat Bottom pickups, as seen here: [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] No pictures at the moment, as I have not yet picked the bass up from my...

I recently bought a Lakland Skyline Duck Dunn (used in mint condition) and it's a great bass, but one day I plugged it in and it simply would not emit a sound! It wouldn't work in any of several amps I plugged it into. I turned the volume up and tapped on the pickup, and I could hear some...

Typically I find that if a song starts in, say, G, and everything resolves to G, then it's commonplace for musicians to say that that song is in 'the key of G'. But isn't the key based on which accidentals are used? So, for example, in the A Major scale you have A, B, C#, D, E, F#...

...That just happens to be mine. We played on a TV morning show earlier this summer, and I thought it was about time you guys told me what you thought. First up we have 'The Indian Song', which features a riff that can only be described as a cross between surf rock and Led Zeppelin. The...

Check it, I'm rocking an old Vox bass on an old Acoustic rig. There's a couple vids the TV station put up, though we did six songs total. Just played this morning, it was so fun! Couple little flubs, but not bad enough that non-musicians would notice...

Link Removed the song in question is murderous ways. please enjoy.

[Invalid or Expired Link Removed] A band mate had criticized me for playing too 'rhythmically', so I tried my hand at recording a bouncy line for another band mate's demo. The song itself isn't exactly a hit, and there are no production values whatever, but it's still one of my finer bass...

I'm a relatively new bassist and I started out playing on borrowed and very cheap equipment - a Fender Jazz with a Crate 220 W amp I got for $20, playing through a B52 GUITAR half stack. I've been upgrading piece by piece, though, trying to get the sound I'm longing for. Right now I have a...

A great player, but not in 'collectors' condition. First the bad: The built-in distortion, treble/bass boost, and G tuner circuits are missing (though the schematics are still available online). The volume and tone knobs work just fine. The cloth back cover is also missing, as seen in...