Archive for July 2015

Orange Amplification has announced the OBC210 Mini Bass Amp, a 2×10 cab that the company calls their “smallest conventional, non-isobaric cabinet to date.” The new enclosure includes two ten-inch Eminence Legend speakers and has an power rating of 400 watts at 8 ohms. The OBC210 Mini is constructed with birch plywood and features Orange signature skid runners at its base...

Bassist Chris Wyse is having a big year. After a decade-long stint with The Cult, he has left their ranks to lay down the low end for the Ace Frehley Band full-time. If that’s not enough, his trio Owl has just released their third album, entitled . The six-song collection features Wyse’s thick bass tone and solid lines alongside bandmates...

Once again, Zander Zon has turned in another fantastic arrangement of a pop tune. Here he is – back to playing solo with just his Zon bass – performing Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do”.

Remastered vinyl editions of all of The Band’s studio albums, as well as the double live album Rock of Ages, are available as The Band: The Capitol Albums 1968-1977. The set was remastered from original analogue recordings at Capitol Mastering and pressed by Quality Record Pressings on 180-gram vinyl. All the records feature reproductions of the original album art. The...

Electro-Harmonix is expanding their looper lineup with the 22500, a dual stereo looper that combines a compact footprint with an intuitive user interface. The pedal allows each uncompressed audio track to be played in parallel or series to allow for layering harmonies or creating different sections of a song. Each loop has its own footswitch that engages recording and togges...

We have a new Katie Thiroux video to share, and this one is another gem. Recorded as part of Berklee’s video series, here’s Katie performing Burt Bacharach’s “Wives and Lovers” at Cafe 939.

Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo’s labor of love film about the late, legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, Jaco — A Documentary Film, is getting two small-scale advance screenings this summer: Aug. 14 at the Frida Theater in Santa Ana, California and Aug. 16 at Arclight Cinema in Hollywood, with a few other additional dates to be announced soon. According to some reports,...

Q: I have a question on talent. Here is some background first: three years ago, I took up learning electric guitar (aged 45) without any prior learning of music, instruments, etc. – truly from scratch. I took classes in a music school and practiced daily a half and hour to 2 hours every day. I did as much in the...

In honor of Geddy Lee’s birthday today, here’s a great clip of Rush performing “Red Barchetta”, live in 1980. Happy birthday, Geddy!

Toronto-based contemporary jazz ensemble, The Brad Cheeseman Group, has released its self-titled debut album to acclaim from no less than bassist (and No Treble columnist) Damian Erskine. Erskine says the band, featuring Cheeseman on electric bass, offers “Fantastic music, expertly played and 100 percent devoid of ego-driven writing and playing.” The band, active since 2012, started gaining notoriety in 2013...

Meet Con Maikantis, a bassist who started out on keys at a young age, making the switch thanks to an opportunity to join his father in a band. Con is No Treble’s reader in the spotlight for the week of July 27, 2015. Here’s his story. Bio: I started playing keyboards at the age of 10 to 17 years of...

Source Audio has released the Reflex Universal Expression Controller, a pedal they call “the stand-alone command center for all of your expression pedal needs.” The Reflex has three 1/4-inch expression outputs, expression control, six LFO wave shapes, MIDI continuous controller messages, 128 user presets, and a USB port. Each of the three expression outs has its own set of DIP...