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You can now design your dream StingRay bass with Ernie Ball Music Man’s Custom Design Experience – and there are 30 finishes to choose from
Spec up a four or five-string StingRay Special with your choice of finish, hardware, pickups, fingerboards… even the gauge of strings. Will more guitar and bass brands follow suit?
"The difference is huge": Tool's Justin Chancellor explains why he has no intention of going wireless – or using five-string basses
"We've done a lot of experimenting with wireless packs"
"Incredibly grateful": Paul McCartney has been reunited with his Beatles Höfner bass guitar after over half a century
Update: The Beatle says he is "incredibly grateful" for the return of the 500/1 bass that he used in the band's early years
NAMM 2024: Harley Benton launches the PB-Shorty SBK, a 30” scale bass for beginners inspired by a low-end classic – and it costs just £103
Go, Shorty, it’s your birthday…
NAMM 2024: Epiphone launches the Rex Brown Thunderbird, and the Pantera bassist’s new signature model is a classy display of low-end power
Finished in Ebony with gold accents, and a fun little doddle on the rear control cover, this is Epiphone applying going high-end with a serious signature bass for the rock and metal player
Harley Benton’s mind is on the summer holidays already with the launch of the GS-Travel-E Bass – and you can choose all-mahogany or spruce-topped
Passport, shades, suncream, guide book, clean underwear… Oh, and an acoustic-electric bass guitar. C’mon, what else do you need for your holidays?
Harley Benton expands its BZ-1000 II NT series with a pair of sub-£500 extended-range bass guitars – and AAA flame maple veneers come as standard
“The 5-string BZ-5000 II NT and the 6-string BZ-6000 II NT are certainly not for the traditional player!” say the budget gear brand as they court the prog and djent demographic
“It’s just very playable. To me, it’s the best tone that we’ve had from a live show to date”: Sterling By Music Man debuts affordable new signature StingRay for Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz
The Pete Wentz StingRay is a stripped-down passive four-string with a design inspired by skateboards, watches, and of course the aquatic birdlife of Vermont
