Category: Bass Guitars

I remember the day my buddy Dave hauled a beat-up Squier Precision Bass to my garage. Within ten minutes of holding it, he said the same thing every new bassist says: “Why didn’t I start learning sooner?” That moment cemented something I now tell every beginner player who asks me for advice: picking the right…

Finding the right jazz bass guitar can feel overwhelming, especially when the category spans everything from a $370 beginner model to a $2,400 American-made flagship. I have spent the past several weeks testing, comparing, and playing through ten of the most popular Jazz Bass guitars on the market right now, and the differences between them…

I have spent the last three months testing budget bass guitars, gigging with them, recording through them, and putting each one through serious play. Finding the best bass guitars under $500 used to feel impossible when I was a teenager saving up for my first instrument, but the budget market in is shockingly competitive. Whether…

I’ve spent the last three months testing eight of the best active bass guitars on the market right now, plugging them into the same amp, the same DI, and the same set of long cables to see how they actually perform. My verdict: if you want punchy modern tone, low noise on long cable runs,…

I have spent the last three months hauling eight different bass guitars through our rehearsal space, A/B-ing them against thrash, death, and progressive metal tracks with a 100-watt amp and a wall of distortion. When my band tracked our latest EP, every take revealed which instruments could hang with downtuned 7-string guitars and which got…