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The year's best-selling bass is now on sale – grab the Squier Bass VI for a crazy price this Cyber Monday
By Daryl Robertson published
Get Back to a classic 60s bass tone with the Squier Bass VI for only $374.99 at Sweetwater
Level 42 legend Mark King on his 5 most famous bass guitars
By Nick Wells published
“This guy from Alembic showed up with a suitcase and said that he wanted to make a bass for me”
America Paz's fluorescent 6-string is one of the wildest basses you'll see this year
By Nick Wells published
The NG3 'Sailor Bass’ is what you get when you team Dingwall Guitars up with a tattoo artist and neon paint specialist
Explore deep bass tones with the ultra-versatile, super-comfortable Reverend Mercalli 4
By Guitar World Staff published
Features include a solid Korina body, 5-piece maple and walnut neck, proprietary pickups and much more
The 17-string bass Elwood Francis played during a ZZ Top show was a cheap Chinese knockoff of Jared Dines' 18-string Ormsby
By Sam Roche published
Dines called out the “ripoff” guitar on Instagram, to which Francis responded: “The joke’s on me ‘cause I have to play that bootleg POS!”
Watch Yves Carbonne play Teen Town on a custom 2-string bass
By Nick Wells last updated
Yup: TWO-string. French sensation Yves Carbonne demonstrates the mastery of multi-string basses that's wowed the likes of Marcus Miller and Michael Manring
The Fender Bass VI is this year's best-selling bass guitar thanks to the Beatles
By Nick Wells published
The baritone-meets-bass has overtaken Precision and Jazz models after its appearances in Peter Jackson's The Beatles: Get Back documentary led to a surge in sales
Ernie Ball Music Man launches new 35th anniversary StingRay 5 bass guitar
By Jackson Maxwell published
The special-edition five-string features stainless steel frets and a maple-veneered Spalted Sunburst maple top, and comes in single- and dual-humbucker incarnations
Fender debuts outlandish Jazz Bass V for funk favorite MonoNeon
By Nick Wells published
MonoNeon's tricked-out 5-string Jazz Bass comes with an eye-popping neon finish, an 18V preamp and a sock (yes, really)
Harley Benton's new J-style MV-4JB Gotoh bass guitar has a more impressive spec sheet than its price tag would suggest
By Sam Roche last updated
Available in four sleek finishes, the all-new four-string sports Gotoh hardware, Roswell JBA alnico 5 single-coils and a host of other head-turning appointments
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