NAMM 2009 – Bass News
The music world is strutting its (new) stuff at NAMM 2009. Steve Lawson will be playing for Looperlative, Modulus and Accugroove, and around and about with Lobelia – I’m hoping we might get a few wonderful Steve-social-media video clips coming in!
A few picks from the new gear so far… I like to look of the all new tc electronic RebelHead450:
A very high tech, light weight bass head. The mail features (mentioned in the video clip) include:
- Rehearsal input – plug in your mp3 player of sound source of choice.
- Integrated tuner – with LED display.
- Multiple user memories – for storing settings.
- Tone controls.
- TubeTone(tm) – tube sound.
- SpectraComp(tm) – compression.
More on this “Bass Amp 2.0″ (oh yes.. even Bass amps are going 2.0 now 
) on the tc eletrconic site.
No big new gear bass news from Roland this show, but they do have couple of new tuners:
http://www.roland.co.uk/guitar_room_catdet.asp?id=TU1000
http://www.roland.co.uk/guitar_room_catdet.asp?id=TU12EX
There are miles and miles of gear… Stroll though some of the NAMM photos here on flickr - worth it to see the Rob Allen Basses if nothing else. How about a spot the craziest bass competition???
I’m thinking of putting a piezo bridge on my (passive) Jazz bass. Will this work wired directly to it’s own pot, to the jack, and into a signal booster or EQ pedal? I don’t use the tone control, and want to put it through there. Don’t want to start routing if not really needed.
Any help is appreciated.
BennyB
Hi BennyB! Piezo pickups are quite different from normal ones – different impedances and signal levels. I’m also looking at putting a piezo bridge on one of my basses – I’ll write up some tips on that soon, which should help you!
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