Tweet It’s been a while since we’ve had a fun post, so in the great tradition of the 2 string bass and the Bogdon box bass, I present for your delight this from Bass Guitar Blog reader Elmar! The Klangbox is made of fruit boxes and was originally meant to be a gig case for [...]

Tweet For many of us it is the time of year when friends and relatives ask what they can get us for Christmas. Always a tricky question for a bassist. The request for that latest custom-built signature bass of your very own never quite seems to hit the mark, so I thought I’d hunt around [...]

Tweet OK, this is the last post on speaker cabinets for a while, I promise! Completing the mini-series that started by talking about Bass Amp Set Ups and covered open back designs and closed back designs. The main type of cabinet design in use today is a ported enclosure. If you have a cab or a Combo it will almost definitely [...]

Tweet Carrying my bass amp around over the last few days, and listening to the amplifier woes of others, has got me to thinking about the different set ups choices we have as a bassist. It seems to fall into three main buckets: Combo Bass Amp – A speaker / amp / pre-amp all in [...]