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“Start building your dream bass”: Ernie Ball Music Man launches The Custom Design Experience – allowing players to customize every single spec of its StingRay Special bass
4 and 5-strings, changeable pickup configurations, neck profiles and 30 finish options. Could customizable electrics be next?
“Sir Paul has expressed his gratitude to Cathy and the family”: Paul McCartney hands six-figure reward to the family that found his iconic Höfner bass in their attic
Paul McCartney’s “favorite bass guitar” was returned to him over 50 years after its theft, with the Beatle offering a substantial thank-you fee as a reward for its return
“Whether it be Saturday Night Live or the Grammys – this bass has held its own on every stage”: MD to the stars, Adam Blackstone, debuts a signature bass named after his grandmother – the Jackson Gladys Pro Series Concert
With Rihanna, Jay-Z and Alice Keys, he’s played the world’s biggest shows. Now the go-to bassist and MD has his own Jackson signature build – and it’s no metal monster…
“It can sound funky, but, as a full-on rock bass – whacked with the heaviest pick you can find – is when it’s in its element”: Epiphone Thunderbird ’64 review
It’s often said that they don’t make ‘em like they used to. Well, Epiphone are on a mission to prove that old chestnut wrong
Best bass guitars for rock 2024: rock 'n' roll basses from Fender, MusicMan, Sire and more
Make your low-end roar with the best rock bass guitars for every budget
“It isn’t just a modern headless instrument; it’s a resurrection of a pioneering legacy”: Cort reinvents its “revolutionary” headless Artisan bass design with the upgraded Space 5 model
New five-string model pairs own-brand headless tech with refined sculpting for a compact and tonally balanced build
“Don’t sell your first bass. Even if you never play it again, in later life you’ll wish you still had it”: With a stage name coined by Bootsy Collins, Freekbass names the one bass that “like an idiot” he ended up selling
Chris ‘Freekbass’ Sherman on how a Rickenbacker and a BC Rich (via Tiran Porter from the Doobie Brothers) set him on a lifelong low-end path
Best bass guitars 2024: long and short-scale bass options for beginners to pros
Our pick of the world’s finest low-end monsters, with the best bass guitars from Fender, EBMM, Yamaha and more…
“Paul wants it to be fixed up, so he can play it… He was excited as a school boy”: Paul McCartney’s long-lost Höfner violin bass has been found after 50 years
Paul McCartney has been reunited with “the most important bass guitar in history”, which vanished after the Beatles split up – and was unearthed in an English attic
NAMM 2024: “We like to build special basses just for NAMM that show off what we're capable of. What we love to do”: Spector’s USA Custom Shop is here to inspire your own custom bass build – and, as they tell us, “we love new challenges”
Check out some of the Custom Shop candy available from Spector’s top US luthiers
