Ty Campbell Staff Contributor The Ravish Sitar pedal, an unique pedal with an endless variety of tones not only emulating the sitar, but also drones and some really cool fretless tones as well. This pedal will keep you busy for hours on end, experimenting with all the different tonalities that you can create. You control [...]

David LaBruyere Contributor A portable bass with no audible sense that there’s anything portable about it is a pretty good goal to shoot for, right? While there have been many claims to the throne over the years, including Steinberger and the DeArmand Ashbury bass (which is by far the closest, with it’s rubber strings and [...]

Review by Chuck Jones Bassist with Eric Lee Beddingfield Hello, my fellow bass players! Please allow me to introduce you to a small boutique bass company called Clement Basses, out of Deland, Fl. I think this is a company you will want to give a look. Tom Clement, owner of company, builds each instrument to [...]

by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Staff Contributor The Overton Featherweight 500 Watt Bass Amp is a lightweight single rack space full feature packed amp. Features include a built in compressor with threshold and ratio adjustments with the option for bypass, and the ratio control doubling as a push button mute. EQ controls are bass, midrange [...]

Review by Matt O’Donnell Bass Frontiers Managing Editor It’s hard finding the ideal bag to carry your bass around in. Admit it. Most of us try a few different things, whether it be carrying around the big rectangle case or just saying “screw it” and throwing it in whatever flimsy thing is closest on their [...]

Review by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Staff Contributor Yet another bass compressor you say? Yes, but this is not just any bass compressor. I used the M87 on a few gigs, in combination with the couple of other pedals that I use (a chorus and an octaver), with the M87 at the end of my [...]

Review by Kevin de Souza Bass Frontiers Contributor The concept behind Mike Lull’s success as a luthier seems very simple: take a classic design and refine it. Obviously a winner when it comes to the P and J-style basses his Bellevue, WA custom shop has been turning out for years (in the interest of full [...]

Review by Jarad Clement Bass Frontiers Media Editor It is evident that bass amp manufacturers have recently been focusing a lot on making the normal heavy, back straining and massive amplification a thing of the past. Ampeg is no exception, and at last years Winter NAMM they introduced a new line of bass amps made [...]

by Dave Fowler Bass Frontiers Editor-In-Chief How many times have you had that 1 or 2 night gig out of town and struggled with what bag(s) you will take to accommodate all you will need while doing your shows? Well, our good friends over at GruvGear have taken all the guesswork out of this for [...]

We recently reviewed the Equation Audio RP-22X headphones and believe that we have stumbled onto the bassist’s new must have piece of gear. Equation Audio, started in 2003 by former CAD founder Bruce Forbes, has designed a set of ‘cans’ that really deliver the low end punch that both bassists and drummers crave. Not only do [...]