Author: iBass

Faultless Build, Tone, Looks and Playability – An Outstanding Bass Guitar. Design The Stenback Four has a familiar body shape that’s reminiscent of the Fender Jazz Bass design. Few bass builders these days succeed in combining such a much-loved classic with truly stunning workmanship and artistry, but we’re looking at a passive instrument that’s nigh-on perfect in terms of construction. To start with, all of the wood has been heat treated to offer more stability and a higher strength-to-weight ratio. The alder body has been made extra special with the addition of hand-polished, stainless steel hardware, an anodized aluminium...

Does boutique build-quality go hand-in-hand with great tone? The TurboTore promises that something extra. Design Onkart Gromt are a small company from Norway who base most of their pedals around simple, but effectively designed circuits. With a hand-made, high-end audio mentality that puts tone first, the TurboTore attempts a very natural and flexible approach to boosting your tone and fulfills its task as only a good-quality effect can. Boost pedals usually find their niche as the effect that turns a good sounding overdriven valve amp into something very special indeed. The effect simultaneously adds bite and definition, stops your...

We take a closer look at this replica of Sean Hurley’s well-worn ‘61 Fender Precision Design The Sean Hurley Signature 1961 Precision Bass is a production model based on Sean’s own first-call vintage P-Bass. The task here was to age Sean’s signature model until it looked and felt like it had been through 50 years of hard work onstage. Even the piece of foam Sean stuffed under the strings to deaden the sound has been accounted for. The alder body has been painted with nitrocellulose lacquer and rubbed down by specialists from Paul Waller’s team at the Fender Custom...