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MARKBASS, WHOSE AMBITION HAS BEEN particularly impressive as of late (49 new products at Winter NAMM!), is joining the growing virtual-amp market segment. Its Mark Studio 1 amp modeling system, developed in Italy with well regarded ...

BASSISTS IN THE EARLY ’80S WERE QUICK TO EMBRACE BIG HAIR, BI- AND tri-amped rack systems, and even programmed drums, but when keyboard bass began to replace real bass, it understandably caused anger and concern among many. Gradually, ...

OVER THE PAST YEAR OR SO, MY PLUCKing- hand technique has gradually evolved. I rarely play with a pick and slap only occasionally, so I’ve mostly been the typical twofinger guy (Fig. 1), with my plucking fingers perpendicular ...

THE FREEWHEELING INTERNATIONAL journey of Phil Chen began in 1964 when he took a banana boat from his Kingston, Jamaica, birthplace to London to promote the earliest forms of what we now call “ska” music. He landed smack dab in ...