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When does an instrument become a bass? Would TB'ers consider a Baritone Guitar as a type of bass? Or would it still be considered a guitar? Some 6-string basses - Fender Bass VI, and various Danelectros, to mention just a few - are tuned a 4th lower than a standard guitar (B), others are...

Does anyone string and tune their 12-string bass in a Root-Octave-2nd Octave arrangement (with each triplet spanning two octaves)? (Like having a piccolo 8-string bass on top of a standard 4-string bass.) I know about 12-string basses that are tuned Root-Octave-Octave, or Root-5th-Octave, but...

I recently acquired an Aria TAB-60 thinline semi-hollow bass. It was a purchase from a family member who quit playing - not a store-bought instrument. It is a medium-scale bass fitted with dual humbucking pickups and still equipped with the stock round-wound strings Aria supplied. I’ve been...

I've worked on a fair number of Warwick active basses fitted with MEC Electronics' preamplifiers, some which include MEC active pickups as well, and it seems that they all have a very noticeable amount of white noise hiss in the background. Much of this hiss will disappear when the active EQ is...

I have a Jazz bass fitted with hum canceling pickups. It has amazing tone, but the output is weak. Does anyone besides Bartolini (TC-3, TC-5) make a plain preamp without EQ just to provide a bit of gain boost? It appears that LanePoor.com (legacy) offered one but they have not responded to...