Bass Magazine

From Ashdown Engineering: From September 17, 2026, Ashdown will be exclusively available across the USA through Guitar Center and Musician’s Friend. For the first time in nearly three decades, Ashdown will have a dedicated footprint across the United States, with our products available through 300 Guitar Center stores and online through Musician’s Friend. From instruments and...

GRAMMY Award winning bassist DAVID ELLEFSON has announced his BASS WARRIOR TOUR in Europe for December 2026. The tour will feature Ellefson and his solo band performing select cuts from his well-known catalog of Mega hits, including the Megadeth Countdown to Extinction album in it’s entirety, solo material and other hard rock & metal favorites which inspired him during hi...

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) today announces the Lee Sklar Precision Bass®, a faithful recreation of Sklar’s highly customized P Bass® that has accompanied the legendary bassist throughout his decades-long career. From James Taylor and Carole King to Phil Collins, Toto, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Joe Cocker, and Rod Stewart, Sklar’s unmistakable playing ...

Rethinking the Onboard Preamp: How McGrath Guitars Re-Engineered a Studio Cult Classic for Bass For decades, bassists hunting for tonal flexibility faced a familiar dilemma, carve out room on their instrument for a wall of knobs and stacked pots, or settle for a standard 3-band EQ. Yet, in practice, many players end up running multi-band active EQs totally flat or worse, the ...

My Chemical Romance announce The Black Parade (20th Anniversary), arriving October 23 on Reprise Records. The expanded reissue celebrates two decades of a monumental work that has since been RIAA-certified 4x Platinum, ranked among Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time,” and inspired fans and artists across generations and genres. The band unveiled the reimagined c...