Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

There are many decisions involved when choosing the right pickup. Vintage or Modern? Hum cancelling or not? What kind of EQ do I want? One of the most misunderstood choosing between a vintage output or high output pickup (or somewhere in between).Most people think that high output pickups are only for heavy music, and lower output pickups are for everything else. Once we understand what a higher output pickup does for the sound (and our playing), we might be better equipped to make a choice.

I’d like to discuss utilizing the 6 string bass as a soloist. The great thing about working as a solo bassist, is that no one can tell you that your playing too many notes. As I mentioned in the “Art of Bass Looping” articles, performing a solo bass gig can be a killer experience or…

I’d like to discuss utilizing 6 string bass techniques as a solo bassist as well as in a band situation. First, I’d like to thank Steve Bernstein of Redding Ca. for loaning me his custom built 6 string bass. Constructed with Mahogany, Purpleheart, Birdseye Maple, Moses graphite neck and Hipshot tuners, Steve loaded this beauty…

Now that you’ve spent some time using various pickups to achieve an even sound while looping your bass, lets focus on timing and techniques.

Bass looping can be used in many styles of music. Funk, fusion, jazz, metal, reggae, you name it. How well an audience receives your looping depends on several things.

What if you could pay a tech a one-time fee to install a device that would mean you could swap out pickups to your heart’s content, at home without a soldering iron? Well, Seymour Duncan has you covered with the Liberator.

This song incorporates clean type appreciated chords played with distortion, and I can tell you that I was very inspired from acoustic guitar when I was composing the song. The verse is very in your face and they sound even cooler with the addition of some melodic lines behind it. The clean acoustic break in the…

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