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Gerald Veasley has announced that early registration is now open for his 2011 Bass BootCamp, taking place March 25-27 in Reading, Pennslvania. BBC is celebrating its 10th anniversary with this camp. Registration is $449. Use the discount code “MAER11” at checkout before August 31, 2010 and you’ll get $50 off. Last year’s event included clinics by Bakithi Kumalo, Brian Bromberg,...

The Virginia Bass Forum saw the return of the multi-talented bassist Bryan Beller to Forte Music Studios in June. Participants who attended Bryan’s first Bass Forum clinic in August 2009 learned the value of being a versatile bass player. The Forum, now in its second year of events, is a monthly gathering for bassists featuring either bass clinics, performances, or...

Marcus Miller will hold a special Master Class at Chuck Levin’s Washington Music Center in Wheaton, MD on August 16th. The clinic will take place two days before Miller’s performance at Wolf Trap, in Vienna, Virginia, as part of his Tutu Revisited Tour. Tickets for the Master Class are $50.00 and available for purchase online or at the store. A...

Details for this year’s Detroit Bass Fest have been revealed, and it looks like it will be another great day of bass. The event has been set for September 3 at Bert’s Warehouse Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. Laying down the low-end will be Gerald Veasley, Ralphe Armstrong, Anthony Wellington, and Doug Johns. The performers will also be clinicians in workshops...

Gear fanatics, get ready. The Nashville Amp Expo, which will be taking place August 21-22, is your chance to try out amps, effects, instruments, and accessories as loud as you want. The exhibitors are mostly high-end and boutique dealers that are usually hard to find in local music stores. For only five bucks per day, you can take your own...

For almost ten years, Gerald Veasley has held his Bass Boot Camp for bassists in the U.S. Next week, he’s taking the camp to Aurora, Canada. The camp will take place on Thursday, July 29th from 8am to 11pm, with intensive, hands-on instruction from Veasley along with drummer Richard Waller III. BBC Canada is open to bassists of all levels,...

Ibanez introduced a number of new basses at Summer NAMM 2010, including new GSR, SR370 and SRT900 series. GSR Series All three of the GSR series basses are available as 4-string only, and come with a P/J pickup configuration. Two left-handed models are offered, including a short-scale version (28.6″). The new GSR series offers a line of basses for players...

AweSome Musical Instruments has unveiled their line of B-35 bass guitars. Available as a 4 or 5-string, the bass features three J-style pickups with six switches as part of their TW-35 Patented Pickup Switching System. After a little math, it adds up to 35 different pickup tones. The passive pickups are switched between on and off, in-phase and reverse-phase, and...

Ernie Ball has released the Music Man Reflex, which they were showing off at their booth during this summer’s NAMM show in Nashville. The bass is an evolution of the 25th Anniversary Bass, and features multiple pickup options. Choose from a standard single humbucker, dual humbuckers, or a humbucker plus two single-coils to suit your tone interests. The bass also...

Boulder Creek’s display at NAMM this summer featured a nice array of acoustic bass guitars, including their new Koa model. One of the unique things about these basses, as well as their other basses, is the Boulder Creek Suspended Bracing System. The system utilizes tone bars with a brace instead of traditional bracing to support the top. The “SBS” works...

The Virginia Bass Forum has announced they will be hosting a clinic with Stu Hamm on Sunday, at 12pm on July 18th in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $30, and at the door $35. Contact Brittany Frompovich ([email protected]) for advance ticket purchases. Details: Fredericksburg Academy, Hazel Arts and Sciences Building Room number 104 10800 Academy Drive...

During our Summer NAMM adventure, we stopped in at the Better Audio Technologies booth to check out their new custom SMB-series of bass cabinets. The cabinets, which are available in a variety of finishes, utilize innovative 6″ long-throw woofers that give a –3dB cutoff frequency of 37Hz for great low-end extension. That’s lower than many manufacturers’ bass cabs, which generally...