I’m always looking to up my game as a musician. The homies at Nordstrand Audio came out with the NordyMute, and it’s a modern day take on some vintage vibes. The NordyMute is an x-factor, it is some secret sauce for bass, and I’m stoked to tell you all about it.
Read MorePicking up where we last left off with Bobb Bruno, Bobb gives us a run down of the effects he's been using on his pedalboard when he plays bass! Jonathan Hischke, and Bobb go through his pedalboard, and find out that Bobb has quite a bit of tricks up his sleeves, some cool surprises and some really off-the-beaten-path vintage gear.
Read MoreWhen legendary pedal maker MXR asked me to do a video of a couple of their new pedals, I was excited to get started. I already reviewed their Bass Chorus Deluxe, so this time, I wanted to showcase their MXR Bass Overdrive.
Read MoreToday’s Throwback Thursday is to a moment when I was younger that solidified my drive to become a bass player. I know that a lot of musicians of my era know who Stanley Clarke is. When I was coming up, he and Jaco Pastorius were legends but I had found Stanley first. I was so into Stanley because he was always winning best bassist awards, he was part of Return To Forever and he could play insanely fast. Perhaps unsurpassed to this day on electric bass. When I was young, I just wanted to burn like him.
Read MoreThought I would do a Throwback Thursday post on a bass that I haven’t really covered here on Pedals And Effects. That bass being my first ever Fender bass.
Read MoreWe have a first here, because I think Nick Schendzielos is the first metal bassist we have had appear on Pedals and Effects! I guess I played in a metal band in the 80's but I am not sure that counts. Nick is a life long metal shredder and he loves bass!
Read MorePedals And Effects is honored to welcome bass player extraordinaire, Julie Slick! Julie stopped by 5Starr Sound labs where we talked gigs, gear, and so much more. You may know Julie from her work with the Adrian Belew Power Trio, or more recently from a video that was making the rounds on social media, where she ripped crazy bass while an artist painted the walls around her. Without further ado, here is Pedals And Effects in conversation with Julie Slick.
Read MorePedals And Effects has previously covered the Source Audio Soundblox 2 OFD Guitar microModeler and, to round it all out, we are covering their Bass microModeler. As ingenious as their guitar pedal is, this bass overdrive-fuzz-distortion pedal is an all-in-one bass grinder.
Read MorePedals And Effects is proud to welcome Nathan Latona of Tera Melos to 5Starr Sound Labs! As some of you may know (and for those who don't), outside of working on Pedals And Effects, Nick plays guitar in the dope band Tera Melos where Nathan takes up bass duties. There's a lot going with their music, and we got to talking to Nathan about the history of the band, how he approaches bass, and how he uses effects in the eye of the hurricane that is Tera Melos.
Read MoreHello! Jonathan here with something a little different; today we're investigating an often overlooked or taken-for-granted element of one's signal path: the pickups. More specifically, this is the first of a few segments focusing on the bad-ass Curtis Novak Bi-Sonic pickup.
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