The Bass Hang

The MM Ulyate Pickup is the newest offering from Ulyate Pickups. The Ulyate MM pickup is literally 2 pickups in one, one coil has 4 large magnets and the other coil mimics a Jazz pickup with 8 smaller magnets, which you can set up with separate volume controls for each, front and back, coil like on this demo. This pickup will drop right into a standard Music Man pickup cavity. Also available in 5...

Super excited to get my hands on this awesome instrument. The Olinto P Bass by La Bella is as close to a real 63' Fender P Bass as you can get. Master Luthier, Mas Hino, handbuilds these instruments to 63' P Bass specs, and he nails it. This bass features a relic Alder body (white over sunburst finish), Maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, a Mas Hino Scatterwound P Bass Pickup, Hipshot reverse tuners...

Super excited about this incredible new piece of gear from A-Designs!! It’s a Solid State instrument preamp and DI with tone shaping, 3 band EQ. Played my Squire VM Jazz V strung with DR Legend Flatwound strings, and my 60's P-Bass strung with DR High Beams, recorded through my Apogee Duet straight into Logic Audio. Here are some specs: KGB-ITF Solid State Discrete Instrument Preamp/DI Cinemag Out...

Here's a sound demo review of the La Bella White Nylon Tapewound strings on my Wilkins Road Tested WRTPJ4 bass loaded with Ulyate Pickups. Recorded direct through my A-Designs Ventura and Apogee Duet, clean bounce from Logic Audio, no Plug Ins.

Here's the complete audio portion of the review video featuring the Colibrí Guitars and Basses Mexico Gedovius Fretless Singlecut bass and two sets of Tapewound style strings. I record, play and compare the Rotosound Tru Bass Black Nylon strings and the La Bella White Nylon Tapewound strings. Like I mention in the video, the bass came stock with the heavier gauge Rotosounds, so when I change to th...

Just received this beautiful Colibri Gedovius Singlecut Fretless bass to review. Did a quick recording going straight into my A-Designs Ventura Channel Strip and straight into Logic audio via my Apogee Duet. This bass features a Mahogany Chambered Single Cut body and neck, Palo Escrito Top and an Ebony Fretboard. It has a Pieze pickup under the bridge saddle. This is a great playing and sounding i...

This is the Drum and Bass track for an upcoming project. Jason Toney and Steve Araujo are using the A Designs Ventura Mic Pre/DI for an entire song. The drum track was recorded using one Audio Technica 4047, and the bass was recorded through the Ventura's DI. Guitars and vocals will be recorded soon.

In this episode I'm joined by Howard Ulyate and Doug Koeppen. We discuss and play a bunch of basses. Howard brought one of the basses he created, I bring out my Marco Bass and we play an incredible Wilkins 5 string bass with an Audere preamp. We play through Form Factor and Aguilar cabs. Please subscribe and hope you enjoy this episode.

This is Episode 6 of The Bass Hangs Podcast. In this episode I feature Tensor Bass CEO Tom Lanni. He's building some unique basses and taking a very out of the box concept and making it reality with his designs. Please go to TensorBass.com for more information. Also, I hang out and play a bunch of basses with different flatwound strings with my Bass Hang Bass Geek buddy Doug Koeppen.

3/20/2016 Richard Ruse of Trickfish Amps joins me this week on The Bass Hang Podcast. He tells us about his history and his thinking behind his new amp company. Visit: TrickfishAmps.com If you'd like to watch the video version of this podcast here is the link: https://youtu.be/T0kPdEVux8o I also feature a review and sound demo on a killer Marco fretless bass. Visit Marco: MarcoBassGuitars.com Here...

3/15/2016 This is The Bass Hang Podcast Episode 4. In this Podcast we feature an interview with the one and only Pat Wilkins. He gives us brief history about his guitar finishing and building business and his concept behind his new Wilkins Road Tested basses and guitars. Also, Doug Koeppen and I have fun playing a killer Wilkins Road Tested WRTPJ4 bass.

This sound clip features my Marco Fretless TFL 5 String bass, DR Strings and the A-Designs Ventura Mic Pre/Channel Strip/DI. I used the Instrument DI Input of the A Designs Ventura and the Main Output to go into my Apogee Duet. This Channel Strip is one of the best sounding Channel strips out there, with it’s Cinemag Input and Output transformers its one of the warmest solid state DI/Mic Preamps o...

In this Bass Geek episode we go Bass Octave Pedal CRAZY!! We play and demo the Aguilar Octamizer, 3 Leaf Audio Octabvre, MXR Bass Octave Deluxe, and the EBS Octabass. We also demo a great new little pre amp pedal from Dawes Audio, the Blackfoot, based off of the original Music Man Stingray 2 Band Preamp. Please subscribe to the Bass Hang Podcast feed.

This episode features my Bass Hang buddies Howard Ulyate and Doug Koeppen. We play a killer Roger Bass, talk new DR Pure Blues Strings and play some basses with some Ulyate pickups. Then I also talk about some killer DR Strings and play some great basses strung up with DR DDT, Pure Blues and Legend Flatwounds. Please subscribe to the Bass Hang Podcast feed.

Here's Season 3 of The Bass Hangs Weekly 3. Check it out and nerd out on all that is BASS GEAR!!!

Here's Season 2 of the Weekly 3. I feature a ton of gear and equipment.

This is a Podcast version of a weekly video series I hosted a couple of years ago. It's Season 1 of the weekly Three.

This is Episode 1 of The Bass Hangs podcast. I give some background on myself and how I came up with the Bass Hang. I also talk to 2 great bassists who share my bass geekness, Howard Ulyate and Tony Puleo.