Fretted, fretless, double bass ... to get that natural distortion – and Stewart's drums. But I hate the sound of a bass guitar coming through headphones – it sounds like a mechanical fart.

From Kumalo's perspective, fretless bass is all about tone first. “The first step, before you play a lot of fancy licks, is to get the right sound one note and one string at a time. It shouldn't ...

The bass virtuoso recounts his bass gear past and present, from his trademark Alembic to the bass equivalent of the Fender ...

Guitars come in all shapes and sizes and with everything from four strings — as in the tenor guitar — to 17, as in Gibson’s Style-U model. Because fretless guitars are, you know, fretless ...