The Bass Hang

In this episode Doug Koeppen and I play a killer Italian made Manne Moab Special Master Grade 5 String Bass. The specs are below, when we shot the episode we went in cold and just played the bass, and speculated some things about the bass. Manne Moab Special Specs: Master grade Italian walnut top over a black Korina body with a beautiful inlay that separates the bookend matched top! Neck is Manne'...

This week on 2 Dudes 1 Bass, Howard Ulyate and I dissect an incredible Lakland Skyline Jazz Bass. These basses are incredibly consistent and every one that I've had my hands on has been great and 100% gig worthy. Shot with an iPhone 7 and the Apogee MiC 96k.

Steve Araujo and The Bass Hang's Brand New Series!!! 2 Dudes 1 Bass!!! Steve Araujo and one of his bass playing friends geek out on a different bass every week and basically talk about, and demo the instrument. The editing is minimal and we basically just ROLL TAPE!! In Episode 3, Howard Ulyate of Ulyate Instruments and Steve Araujo discuss and demo a great Nordstrand Nordy VP4, 4 String Precision...

Steve Araujo and The Bass Hang's Brand New Series!!! 2 Dudes 1 Bass!!! Steve Araujo and one of his bass playing friends geek out on a different bass every week and basically talk about, and demo the instrument. The editing is minimal and we basically just ROLL TAPE!! In Episode 2, Doug Koeppen and Steve Araujo, from The Bass Hang, discuss and demo a great G&L JB5-5 String Jazz Style Bass. The Vide...

2 Dudes 1 Bass is BACK!!! Season 2 is back and the 1st episode features Howard Ulyate and Steve Araujo discussing and playing an amazing 1990 Ken Smith BT 5G bass. This bass belonged to a dear friend of ours, Bill Bieschke, and it is an honor to be able to play this instrument.

Here is a quick soundbite featuring the DR Strings Bootzillas Coated Strings. I used a 5 string Colibri Jazz Bass recorded through an A-Designs Audio KGB-II.

Carey Nordstrand tells Steve Araujo and The Bass Hang the story of how the Big Singles, Fat Stacks and Big Splits came to life.

Steve Araujo and Carey Nordstrand swap, and compare some Nordstrand Big Rig and Big Blade pickups on this amazing Michael Tobias Design USA MTD Saratoga 5 String Bass. This bass has a Nordstrand 3b preamp and DR Lo Rider Strings.

This is a quick demo video of the MTD Saratoga 5 loaded with Nordstrand Big Blade pickups. The preamp is the Nordstrand 3b Preamp. For the first half of the video I have the preamp/on-engaged with the treble cut about 10%. For the second half of the video, the preamp is bypassed/off. For both examples I have both pickups on. I used the A-Designs Audio KGB-II DI/Preamp straight into Logic audio and...

Here is a quick demo featuring an outstanding MTD USA Saratoga 5 string bass. This is one of the best feeling and constructed basses I have ever played. Michael Tobias is making some of the most sought after basses in the business. This bass features a Maple neck with Birds Eye Maple fingerboard, and a Poplar body, it is loaded with Nordstrand Big Rig Pickups and Nordstrand 3b Preamp. The bass was...

Here is a demo of an amazing Colibri JBT 5 String Jazz Bass. This bass is handmade by Master Luthier Rodrigo Castellanos of Colibri Instruments in Mexico. The bass also sports Nordstrand Big Single Pickups and a Nordstrand 3b Preamp. It is strung up with DR Pure Blues Strings. Bass Specs: Alder Body in Inca Silver, Flame Maple Neck. Indian Rosewood Fingerboard, Hipshot Hardware, Nordstrand Big Sin...

Here's a very quick sound demo of this great and very RARE Yamaha BB5000A Wide Neck Bass. This is a Highly Customized Bass from the Late 80's. check out the specs and the great tones this bass produces!! I wanted to do this quick demo because I had a KILLER fretless version of this bass a ling time ago and this was a great reminder of how great these basses were and are!! The Bass was recorded thr...

Here's an in depth video review and sound demo of my Killer handmade Roger 5 String Jazz bass made by the incredible Luthier Ray Roger. The bass has an Ash Body with a Cinnamon Imbuia Top (very rare and expensive), 34" scale Maple neck and Fretboard, 19mm Bridge Spacing, 1-7/8" spacing at the Brass nut, Ulyate Single Coil Pickups, Benavente 3 Band 18 volt preamp and weighs in at 10.3 lbs. I record...

Here's a great Manne Moab Special Master Grade 5 String Bass. I wanted to do a quick sound demo go this killer bass. I used my A-Designs REDDI for the direct recording. Manne Moab Special Specs: Master grade Italian walnut top over a black Korina body with a beautiful inlay that separates the bookend matched top! Neck is Manne's signature beech laminate with ash wings, with a thin phenolic fretboa...

I just wanted to have a little groovy fun with my killer Olinto P Bass!! I just set up a drum groove and improvised. This is one of my favorite basses I own. This bass is strung with La Bella Original 0760M "1954" strings and they are seriously amazing and have Old School TONE for DAYS!! The pickup is a Hand Wound P Bass pickup wound by Mass Hino himself!!! This bass was hand made by Mas Hino and...

Steve Araujo and The Bass Hang's Brand New Series!!! 2 Dudes 1 Bass!!! Steve Araujo and one of his bass playing friends geek out on a different bass every week and basically talk about, and demo the instrument. The editing is minimal and we basically just ROLL TAPE!! In Episode 1, Howard Ulyate of Ulyate Instruments and Steve Araujo discuss and demo a great Colibri JBT 4 String Jazz Style Bass. Th...

I wanted to showcase the A-Designs Audio KGB II Preamp/DI by playing a couple of basses through it. I used my La Bella Olinto P Bass and Colibri JBT J Bass both strung with DR Strings. I went straight into my Apogee Duet with input set at -10 and recording straight to Logic Audio. I did add some limiting and compression. Any slight overdrive is coming from the plug ins, the KGB II is such a killle...

Here's a killer hand made Colibri JBT 4-J style bass. This bass features a 34" Scale Hard Rock Maple neck, Wenge Fretboard, Alder Body, Ulyate Single Coil Pickups, Audere Preamp and Hipshot Hardware. I recorded this direct through my A-Designs REDDI straight into my Apogee Duet and into Logic Audio. Music and guitar by Matt Waldrum and I'm playing the Colibri JBT 4 Bass. This bass is available thr...

Here’s a very quick sound demo with some great close up pictures of this amazing Colibri Gedovius 5 String Fretless bass. Handmade by master luthier Rodrigo Castellanos of Colibri bass and guitars. This bass features a Singlecut Mahogany body and neck, 32″ Scale, highly figured Spalted Maple top, Ziricote bridge and fretless Fingerboard, Hipshot tuners, LR Baggs piece pickup and preamp, and has a...

Here's a quick little demo featuring the Form Factor Bi1000 amps Direct Out. I went into my Apogee Duet 2 then into Logic Audio. I used my Lakland 44-60 bass on the first half and Olinto P bass on the second half of this track.

Quick little demo of a great USA G&L L-2000. This bass has an ash body, maple neck and rosewood fretboard. I used this setting: Switches-both pickups on, parallel mode, active mode. Knobs-volume 100%, treble 50%, bass 90%. I used my Form Factor Bi1000 amp and 1B12 cab and recorded the video with my Apogee MiC 96k. Click link below to purchase Apogee MiC96k: http://amzn.to/2bxorTM Click Below to Pu...

This was a very quick playing demo of me trying out the new G&L JB-5 5 string Jazz bass. This is G&L's first 5 string jazz style bass and it's great!! This bass has an alder body, maple neck and rosewood fingerboard. This bass also has passive Alnico V pickups which sound very warm and punchy. The playing examples were all recorded direct through a BBE BMAX bass preamp. For G&L purchasing Info cli...

I used my Wilkins Road Tested WRTPJ5 bass with Nordstrand passive pickups on this is a great Chris Ehler arrangement of "Walking On The Moon by The Police." The bass was recorded direct with no EQ'ing.

This is a playing demo of a brand new Marco TFL P Style bass through my A-Designs REDDI DI.

This is a quick little jam over Blues For Alice using my Marco TFL 5 Bass and recorded through my A-Designs Ventura Mic Pre/DI. THE 2 BASS TRACKS ARE PANNED HARD LEFT AND RIGHT.