Year: 2017

‘It looks pretty cool, plays like a real rock machine and sounds great.’ The Mike Dirnt Road Worn Precision was the result of a two year collaboration between Fender and Green Day bassist Dirnt. The pair came up with something very similar to the Artist Series P-Bass, but pre-aged to simulate years of hard-played onstage glory. On an aesthetic level, you get an ash body that’s finished in 3-colour sunburst or white blonde lacquer. It has a custom vintage-style ’59 split single-coil pickup, side-mounted output jack, a C-shape neck fitted with 20 medium jumbo frets and a 9.5-inch radius...

This roadworthy stomper from Arc Effects delivers some classic Big muff tones. Design Bassists now more than ever seem to have a particular affinity with fuzz. From valve grind to rich saturated distortion, you are never far away from the thunder of low-end grit. For many, the stompbox daddy of all fuzz is the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi, and here we are focusing on this new take on the classic ’S’ Tall Font Green Russian Distortion. As the name suggests, this pedal is similar in footprint to the original Big Muff fuzzes of the ‘70s and seems to possess the...

From construction to sound quality, this acoustic has it all. A well-built bass, at a great price. Design The Sigma BMC-15E has a solid mahogany top, with mahogany back and sides and a mahogany neck that’s topped with an Indian rosewood fingerboard. The body is neatly put together both inside and out, giving an immediate sense of solid build, and thanks to its on-board Fishman electronics it comes well equipped for the modern stage. The control panel has rotary controls for master volume, bass and treble, as well as a phase switch, which has been designed to ‘notch out’...