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Although I love playing bass, my primary instrument has been 12-string guitar for many, many years. I just dropped an album of a dozen 12-string instrumentals. For the first time, I arranged these originals with bass parts. This was challenging because, like many 12-string players, my several...

Hi folks. I have a question for you experts out there. I have never gigged in any situation where I needed anything larger than a combo amp. If I needed more "oomph" I just ran out of a D.I. from my pedalboard or out to the FOH from the line out of my amp. I was just wondering, theoretically...

First day of a new school year. I show up for the standard first week stuff: faculty breakfast, meetings with administrators and HR, etc. One of the counselors says a friend of hers was moving to California and had to lighten his load. He was getting ready to toss out an acoustic bass guitar...

Hi guys, I’m researching for a podcast I want to make about British bass guitarists. I’m an American, but I was influenced more by British bassists like Paul McCartney, Jack Bruce, Chris Squire, and Michael Rutherford than by any American player. I’m 62, so I’m trying to consider anyone (before...

I found a “target of opportunity” the other day while surfing the Guitar Center web site. I’ve been looking for a long scale fretless (my other fretless is short scale) and I was excited to find this one. I found this used 6-string fretless and the wife said to go for it. I spent the evening...

I have a Crate. BX-160 amp that I love. It is starting to have a problem where it starts to fritz out intermittently. It’ll start to lose volume and die out. If I turn it off and back on again, it will do fine for a while and then die out again. I had a solid state guitar amp that did this once...

Although I have played bass since 1976, I have been primarily a guitarist over almost 50 years. During the pandemic quarantine, I started jonesing for a new bass. I bought an SX jazz bass like the one Laura Lee of Khruangbin plays. I set it up with flats and foam under the bridge. A few months...

I decided I wanted to have a little more tension in my strings so I replaced my LaBella tapewounds on my Epiphone Viola bass with a set of D’Daddario Chromes. I use the Chromes on my jazz bass; I’m familiar with their tone, feel, etc. I know they start out a little bright at first but, after...

I’m just throwing this out there for discussion. Some of my favorite bassists are the English prog-rock guys like Michael Rutherford, Chris Squire, Jon Camp, and Ray Shulman, all of whom played with a pick. Here are a few questions on pick-style. 1. Which bass lends itself to pick-style. I...

It occurred to me the other day that, while I have been primarily a guitarist for the past 48 years, with occasional stints of playing bass, as a listener, it’s the bassists that always draw me to a band. My favorite bands as a kid were Led Zep and Chicago, both of which had outstanding bass...

Hi everyone, I have been a lurker on the site without signing up for a couple of years when I was shopping for a bass. I have played guitar for 46 years. I also play banjitar, mandolin, and bass. I played a lot of bass back in high school when I was in the jazz band. I have used bass in my home...