by Lee Francis The SWR Headlight may be minute in stature, weighing a mere 3.75 pounds, but it is absolutely massive in the volume and tone departments. With features such as a semi-parametric eq, SWR’s famous aural enhancer, various tone shaping options including built-in compression, fx-blend, a tube preamp, and 400 watts of class-D power [...]

Hartke HM5410 HyDrive Bass Combo (500 Watts, 4×10 in.) Delivers 500 watts to its internal 4 ohm speaker system. Four 10-inch HyDrive neodymium hybrid cone drivers. Features – 500 watts ( 12AX7 tube preamp ) – 4×10-inch HyDrive neodymium hybrid cone drivers – Two inputs for active and passive basses – Built in limiter – [...]

The SVT-7 PRO head from Ampeg is a truly refreshing return to the sounds that made Ampeg the frontrunner of bass amp companies. Out of the box, the head was a little larger than I expected based on Ampeg’s advertising that it is one of their lightest heads ever. Thankfully they weren’t lying, as it [...]

by Brent-Anthony Johnson The ever-revolutionary Planet Waves employs a pair of LED beams onto vibrating bass strings that phase when out-of-tune and become still when in tune for it’s compact and simply very cool S.O.S. Bass Guitar Tuner! This visually oriented device overrules the potentially noisy pre-gig stage environments, and provides a silent nearly-failsafe tuning without [...]

by Kenny Ames While the Lace bass may be new on the scene of musical instruments Lace pickups have been around since the late 70′s early 80′s. Making and refining their pickups in close relationship w/ Fender, Lace pickups have graced many a stock Fender bass w/ their Lace Sensor series of pickups. Visually the [...]

by Dave Fowler, Bass Frontiers Editor in Chief The TM Stevens Fonk Wah is as colorful as the man it is named after…upon first taking it out of the box it is a very good looking piece, and it gets better from here…if you are into the whole wah “fonk” thing, then this pedal could [...]

by Kenny Ames E & O Mari La Bella has been in the string business for nearly 400 years. Ample time to get it right. And get it right is what they do with their “Slapper” brand of bass strings. Slappers are a nickel wrapped outer winding over a stainless steel core. The blend of [...]

The Lakland Decade bass is probably one of the coolest basses to have come out in recent years. Let’s not even talk about the fact that the innovative body shape is really cool, the Chi-Sonic pickups sound really good, and the idea of a truss rod wheel is a no-brainer. No, we won’t talk about [...]