Year: 2017

Peerless construction and quality materials put this F Bass at the top of the tree. Design Sitting atop the F Bass range, the BN5 pairs an ash body with a three-piece maple neck. It’s a classic combination that remains as popular as ever. Why? Because it offers the best of two great tone woods. In more practical terms, the rather unusual body shape incorporates some sleek contouring and makes for an extremely comfortable bass. It’s reasonably light and the elongated upper horn compensates for a smoothly sculpted cutaway on the treble side. ‘Our goal has always been to create...

The latest in the EHX effects series is here, in the shape of the Hot Wax Dual Overdrive. The wacky world of Electro Harmonix now plays host to the Hot Wax Dual Overdrive, which continues the company’s tradition of taking existing designs and mutating them into new versions with a twist. Designed for guitar and bass, there’s more than just cool looks on offer, as the Hot Wax combines the company’s Hot Tubes and Crayon pedals into one powerful dual-overdrive. The trick is that they can be used individually or stacked together with the Crayon driving the Hot Tubes....

A New Signature Axe for Meshuggah’s Dick Lövgren Not just another addition to the Zon Guitars Sonus range, we’re talking a brand new signature model that’s a result of a collaboration between Joe Zon and bassist Dick Lövgren. It’s a stunning take on the Sonus model, built to the Meshuggah bassist’s exact specifications. It features a hollow African mahogany body with a ‘floating’ flame maple top and composite neck, but the business side of this 6-string is based around Graph-tech ‘ghost’ piezo pickups in the bridge saddles and a hand-wound Bartolini magnetic pickup in the neck position. “The body is about 4-inches...