Category: "Reviews"

Review: Clement #254 “Wide Joan”

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 [...]

L’il Brats Bass Method Review

L’il Brats Bass Method Review by Bass Frontiers Staff Contributor Ty Campbell L’il Brats Bass Method by Brian Emmel covers everything your beginning bass player needs to know to get started on the right path. Brian has been teaching for over 20 years. This book is a lot of fun and will definitely keep the [...]

Bryan Beller Mastering Tone and Versatility DVD Review

Bryan Beller Mastering Tone and Versatility DVD Review by Ty Campbell Bass Frontiers Staff Contributor Bryan Beller’s new bass guitar DVD Mastering Tone and Versatility covers tone and chain of sound, different styles of music, and how to deal with more difficult tunes typical of what Bryan performs with certain artists. Bryan shares all the [...]

Extreme Metal Bass Review

Extreme Metal Bass Review by Bass Frontiers Staff Contributor Ty Campbell Extreme Metal Bass by Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse is really that extreme. While this bass book and cd is geared towards the heavier extreme form of metal, I found an abundance of exercises to be helpful in a lot of different genres. The [...]

Review: Overton Featherweight 500

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: Mono M80 Dual Bass Case

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 [...]

MXR M87 Bass Compressor

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: Mike Lull T4

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 [...]

Avenged Sevenfold Play-A-Long Review

Avenged Sevenfold, from Huntington Beach California, influenced by bands such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Corrosion of Conformity and many others was formed in 1999. The bass play-a-long contains 7 tunes from 4 different releases. Tunes included are Nightmare from the album Nightmare released Jan 1, 2010, Almost Easy, Afterlife, and Scream from the album Avenged [...]

Review: PF-500 Portaflex and PF-210HE Stack

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 [...]