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NAMM 2009 – Bass News

Posted by Benjamin on January 16, 2009 Filed under: bass, bassguitar, Gear, shows tagged: namm, NAMM2009

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???

 

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7 Responses to “NAMM 2009 – Bass News”

  1. BennyB, on January 17th, 2009 at 10:21 PM Said:

    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

  2. Benjamin, on January 18th, 2009 at 9:27 AM Said:

    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!

  3. Mark Bass Pedals | The Bass Guitar Blog, on January 19th, 2009 at 7:59 PM Said:

    […] «NAMM 2009 – Bass News […]

  4. Elrick Expat Bass Line | The Bass Guitar Blog, on February 19th, 2009 at 11:38 AM Said:

    […] ranges. The Elrick Expat New Jazz Standard (NJS) model, announced during the NAMM Show, is more traditional in appearance that the wilder extremes of some of the single-cut thru-necks […]

  5. Music Messe 2009 - Frankfurt | The Bass Guitar Blog, on April 5th, 2009 at 7:45 PM Said:

    […] their range of cabinets (the RS212 and RS210) for the RebelHead450, announced back at the NAMM show. As you can probably guess from the name, it is a 4×10 cab, it has a tweeter too, and is good […]

  6. TC Electronic Classic450 Bass Amp | The Bass Guitar Blog, on July 28th, 2009 at 1:07 PM Said:

    […] was a post about the original RebelHead450 in the NAMM 2009 – Bass News, but since then The folks at TC Electronic have been busy dreaming up new things, the latest […]

  7. TC Electronic Classic450 Bass Amp | Bass Strings, on October 14th, 2011 at 3:20 AM Said:

    […] was a post about the original RebelHead450 in the NAMM 2009 – Bass News, but since then The folks at TC Electronic have been busy dreaming up new things, the latest […]

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