Tweet I’m very pleased to announce that during the month of November we are running ran a competition, with a prize from the great folks at Upton Bass. You have the chance to win one of their patented Revolution SOLO II Double Bass Pickups. This is what some of the users of the Revolution SOLO II Pickup have to [...]

Tweet I’m getting ready to do a few posts on living with bass guitar strings – probably just as well, since I realised that one of my basses has had the same set of strings on for 3 years! I will explain that one. Anyway, before you can really get to down serious string work, [...]

Tweet I’ve posted about the Lakland Owners Group, now it is about time for me to write about an actual Lakland Bass. This fellow here is the Lakland Skyline 55-02. The 55 denotes that it is a 5 string, and the 02 that it has a jazz front pick up and a musicman style one at [...]

Tweet   I’ve been thinking about listening today. Partly because I’ve been turning the studio upside down trying to find my trusty Shure E3 in-ear monitors. They are missing in action. Not good. They were a very special part of my bass kit. There is little that beats the feeling of your insides being liquidized [...]

Tweet I’m talking about the bit of the bass that keeps the strings on, not that funny bit of the song between the verse and the chorus. What we have here today, my fellow bass lovers, is a tale of three bridges. It wasn’t until I saw a Badass bridge on a bass for the first [...]

Tweet Choosing strings for your Bass can be quite stressful! Strings have a massive impact on your tone, and on your wallet too. Understanding the difference between string types involves lots of factors, far too many for one post anyway, so this post will focus on the underlying design of the strings, and the major [...]