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Ibanez Releases New Promethean P3115 Bass Combo Amp
Amps

Ibanez Releases New Promethean P3115 Bass Combo Amp

Ibanez expanded their Promethean combo series this year with the P3115, a 300-watt combo amp with a 15? driver and an HF dome tweeter with a passive crossover. Unique to the P3115 is an on/off switch for the tweeter, allowing for more tonal variety by eliminating unnecessary high frequency overtones. It also features a Class-D power amplifier and internal limiter...

Treat Yourself to Some Inspiration
I Wish I Knew That

Treat Yourself to Some Inspiration

As artists, we are constantly on the search for one thing: inspiration. Inspiration fuels our art, influences our style, and pushes us to perfect our craft. It’s what keeps us learning bass line after bass line, way into the wee hours of the morning, and it persuades us to call one drummer over another. It also pushes us to look...

Sunder Panatella: “The Answer” Solo Bass Performance
Bass Videos

Sunder Panatella: “The Answer” Solo Bass Performance

Grant Stinnett sent in this great video of Sunder Panatella playing his ethereal and original solo bass composition, “The Answer.” “The inspiration [for] this song came from different emotions that I experienced and I had few questions that I’ve been searching the answers for,” Panatella explained. “I think I found ‘The Answer’ thru music.” For the song, Panatella used the...

Dream Theater Announces Summer Tour with the Crimson Projekct
Concerts & Tours

Dream Theater Announces Summer Tour with the Crimson Projekct

Prog fans will have lots to look forward to this summer as Dream Theater is teaming up with Crimson Projekct for a hefty North American tour. The two bands will be kicking it off on June 15th in Rochester, New York before hitting Quebec, then criss-crossing the U.S. This marks the second North American leg of Dream Theater’s tour in...

Bass of the Week: Lane Poor Minima
Bass of the Week

Bass of the Week: Lane Poor Minima

While looking up videos of Jack Casady on YouTube, I stumbled upon a real head-turner of a bass: the Lane Poor Minima. Poor, who is renowned for his pickups, designed and manufactured the bass in the early ’90s. Besides the obvious headless and stepped-tuner body design, the Minima had a graphite fingerboard with special epoxy “frets”, which as Bob Gollihur...

Stories Behind the Songs: Jerry Jemmott
Stories Behind the Songs

Stories Behind the Songs: Jerry Jemmott

Chances are, if you’re listening to a Soul hit from back in the day, you’re listening to Jerry Jemmott. In his prolific career spanning over 40 years, the bassist’s work helped shape the Atlantic Records and Muscle Shoals sounds. He has left his stamp on some generation-defining hits alongside musicians such as Aretha Franklin, Herbie Hancock, King Curtis, B.B. King,...

Dirty Loops: “Rolling In The Deep” (Adele Cover)
Bass Videos

Dirty Loops: “Rolling In The Deep” (Adele Cover)

Dirty Loops is back, with a new cover and more acrobatic bass from Henrik Linder. This is the group’s take on Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”. The instrumental break is fantastic. Here’s our proposed tagline for Dirty Loops: Making top 40 listenable.

Andrea Veneziani Releases Debut Album, “Oltreoceano”
New Albums

Andrea Veneziani Releases Debut Album, “Oltreoceano”

Italian jazz bassist Andrea Veneziani has made his solo debut with Oltreoceano, a 10-track album featuring drummer Ross Pederson and renowned pianist Kenny Werner. The trio performs a version the Bill Evans classic “Time Remembered”, and their musical dialogue throughout the record is influenced by the late pianist’s work. “It’s really about interplay,” Veneziani says. “I had listened to a...

Fodera Announces Janek Gwizdala Signature Imperial Model Bass
Basses

Fodera Announces Janek Gwizdala Signature Imperial Model Bass

Fodera is now offering a Janek Gwizdala Signature Imperial model, based on Gwizdala’s own bass. Hand-built in Fodera’s New York shop, the 5-string bass sports a 33? scale and comes tuned E to C. The instrument has a walnut body with an alder tone block and a stunning non-solid Buckeye Burl top. The 3-piece ash neck is paired with an...

Choosing the Right Webcam in the Youtube Era
Ask Damian Erskine

Choosing the Right Webcam in the Youtube Era

Q: I am looking at starting a Youtube channel, and I was wondering what you’d suggest for a webcam solution. I’m looking for one that has good audio. Alternatively, what is the best, cheap USB interface to buy? A: As many of you may know, I could stand to focus a little attention to my production values with my own...

Steve Bailey, Hadrien Feraud and David “Fingers” Haynes NAMM Jam
Bass Videos

Steve Bailey, Hadrien Feraud and David “Fingers” Haynes NAMM Jam

PreSonus puts on some killer demos at NAMM. (this one, from back in 2009 with Steve Bailey, Victor Wooten and David “Fingers” Haynes remains one of the most popular videos on No Treble to this day). This time around, Bailey is teaming up bassist Hadrien Feraud and Haynes for a jam at the PreSonus booth. The trio is playing the...

In Memoriam: Chris Ethridge
In Memoriam

In Memoriam: Chris Ethridge

Bassist Chris Ethridge, a founding member of Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons, has passed away at the age of 65 due to complications from pancreatic cancer. The genre-shaping band he co-created helped bring country and rock together. Ethridge left the band after recording their debut album The Gilded Palace of Sin, going on to work as a bassist for...