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Fender Custom Shop Sean Hurley 1961 Signature Precision

Posted by iBass | Jan 24, 2017 | Gear

We take a closer look at this replica of Sean Hurley’s well-worn ‘61 Fender Precision Design The Sean Hurley Signature 1961 Precision Bass is a production model based on Sean’s own first-call vintage P-Bass. The task here was to age Sean’s signature model until it looked and felt like it had been through 50 years of hard work onstage. Even the piece of foam Sean stuffed under the strings to deaden the sound has been accounted for. The alder body has been painted with nitrocellulose lacquer and rubbed down by specialists from Paul Waller’s team at the Fender Custom...

Trace Elliot ELF

Posted by iBass | Jan 23, 2017 | News |

Trace Elliot Introduce Ultra Compact Bass Amp The legendary Trace Elliot range has a brand new member – a small, gig-worthy amp that weighs in at just 1.6 lb. Behold the seriously dinky ELF, which produces a fan-cooled 200 watts RMS at 4 ohms. The 3-band rotary EQ section incorporates familiar filters: low centre (80 Hz), mid centre (500 Hz) and high centre (4.2 KHz), while the input gain stage runs through uncompressed, multi-band compression and into overdrive (with a red LED indicating when the compression circuit is active). Trace Elliot has also included a switch mode power supply...

First Look – Moog Minitaur

Posted by iBass | Jan 19, 2017 | Gear

Analogue Bass Synth Module The Moog Minitaur takes its inspiration from the legendary Taurus 1 and Taurus 3 synthesisers. It has a classic one knob per function design, which means there are no confusing menus to dig through, and two oscillators with Sawtooth and Squarewave shapes for each VCO. A look at the back panel reveals separate analog CV inputs for gate, volume, filter and pitch, a MIDI input for hooking up to your computer and a separate audio input for processing external audio through the mixer and filter section. It’s sheer portability is sure to make the Minitaur a...

TC Electronic Gig Ready TonePrints

Posted by iBass | Jan 19, 2017 | News |

New Bass Tone Package From TC Electronic The latest addition to TC Electronic’s TonePrint series sees Scott Devine, Federico Malaman, Steve Lawson and Winston Blissett add their own personal touches to these impressive effects. Using the Helix Phaser, SpectraComp and Hall of Fame Reverb, they have adjusted every effect parameter imaginable to create custom-made tones that can be ‘beamed’ straight to any TonePrint enabled amp or pedal via the free TonePrint app. All of these TonePrints are completely free and can also be downloaded from the TC website. For more info visit www.tcelectronic.com Over at Scott's Bass Lessons.... With over half a...

Sadowsky SPB-2

Posted by iBass | Jan 18, 2017 | News |

New Preamp Pedal from Sadowsky Guitars Behold the new version of Sadowsky’s ever popular preamp pedal. Built using the same circuit that goes in all of Roger Sadowsky’s basses, but with a slimmed down design and a smaller footprint, the SPB-2 works with passive basses, as well as active and upright pickups, giving you more definition and tonal flexibility. The SPB-2 will be available directly from Sadowsky. For more in visit...