I've spent twelve years buying vintage instruments full time and I've appraised something over ten thousand of them. Bass ...

The family-owned audio company commemorates eight decades of innovation with a historical timeline and searchable catalog ...

Regular readers will remember our review of the Becos CompIQ Stella Pro MK2 back in 2024, a compressor that quickly became a ...

Phil Jones Bass has long been known for offering bass enclosures featuring some of the smallest primary drivers in the industry. They have been offering up some of the smallest bass combos for nearly ...

The electric bass community often discusses the merits of top-loaded bridges vs string-through-body loading. Camps are quite divided with their self-reported observations. Some people talk about ...

Marcus Miller is well known for his style and signature bass tone helped no less by his custom signature bass line made by Fender back in 1998. In an exciting collaboration sealed back in 2015, Sire ...

The BX1 Bass Preamp offers classic, natural bass tone with unprecedented tonal control and extended headroom. The BX1 begins with a boutique flat response, then we add extensive tone control allowing ...

Ear Trumpet Labs is a microphone company based in Portland, Oregon that markets its products using the following words, which can be found on a card in the envelope that accompanies each microphone: ...

Jeff Genzler has been involved in the guitar and bass amplification world since 1986, or so. Around 2008, his work on bass amps surpassed the guitar amps, and he has established himself and his ...

Fractal Audio System’s VP4 is their most recently released product, launching at $699 in the US just weeks ago at time of writing, in late Autumn of 2024. After having reviewed their AX8 Amp Modeler ...

We all love playing at gigs, or at least jamming with friends, but for many of us, that is not something we get to do as much as we’d like (especially as of late). Practicing on your own has its own ...

Paul Reed Smith, like some other luthiers and builders, started out doing repair. His shop was in Annapolis, Maryland, but he eventually gained the reputation that would draw all the especially ...