Best bass amps 2023: 14 top choice amplification options for bassists
Dive into our best bass amp guide to discover the options that deliver the power and features to suit your low-end needs, whatever your budget
Bass news
Duff McKagan interview: "I wasn’t initially a bass player – I was a guitar player and a drummer. So, my thing’s a little weird. I write left-handed. I play right-handed. There’s a bunch of weird s**t!"
The Guns man talks new solo album Lighthouse, Jerry Cantrell and shares some insider tips: "I do the trick where, about 20 minutes before a show, I eat some potato chips"
Best bass guitars 2023: four-string and five-string bass guitars for every budget
From modern multiscale models to tried and tested best sellers, we look at the best bass guitars available today
“The times now aren’t right for a new Bowie to come out. He would be too radical” - Tony Visconti slams the lack of ambition and aspiration in the music biz
And he doesn't like Auto-Tune much either…
Best guitar tuners 2023: From tuning pedals and clip-ons, to guitar tuning apps
Keep your all-important tuning on point with the best strobe, polyphonic and chromatic tuners
IK Multimedia launches the iRig USB, a pocket-sized interface for guitar and bass bundled with AmpliTube and TONEX amp and FX modelling software
The iRig USB is a powerhouse tool that is as compact a guitar audio interface as you will find, and with AmpliTube and TONEX included, it can even replace your pedalboard when jamming
“Create drum patterns by simply strumming strings”: DigiTech brings that beat back as the SDRUM returns to create jam rhythms from your pedalboard
The SDRUM is powered by DigiTech’s BeatScratch technology and features five different kits, can dial in rhythms in various styles, and can even learn different song parts
Harley Benton lays the low-end gauntlet down with the 7-string BZ-7000 II NT bass
It's ok, there's a four-string model too
"I get emotional when I think about Cliff and when we're together we think about Cliff": Memories of Metallica's lost bass titan Cliff Burton from Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield
Influential bassist tragically died on this day in 1986
