Velvet Strings was a company that made several well-regarded double bass string sets; the Anima, Garbo, and Blues were their most popular offerings. The Velvet strings were somewhat unusual in their design and materials usage, and over the years they...

I zeroed on this unique pickup for upright bass because it occurred to me that it would be an excellent "travel" pickup - highly portable and temporary for those who are on tour, relying on the use of other people's basses. You can't exactly file away...

A Hybrid bass is something that customers have been asking about for a while. If you don't know, a hybrid commonly combines the durability of a laminated (plywood) back and sides with the more resonant solid top of a carved bass. So you get a lot of the...

Juzek is a well-known name in the bass world. John Juzek's original shop was located in Prague but there were also luthiers located in Schönbach, Czechoslovakia where countless stringed instruments were produced, all carrying the John Juzek label -...

We used to carry a (once very popular) "Professional" bass bag, years ago, which was a step up in padding and durability from our (still very popular) Gollihur Bass Bag. While our Gollihur gig bag is very solid and useful for "weekend warriors" and...

Titanium is an excellent material for an endpin; very lightweight and stiff, it won't absorb (and damper) vibrations as easily as denser materials, and will instead allow them to vibrate freely. Upgrading an endpin to a more high-tech material like...

These Gewa padded gig bags are really nice, and really well made. Using genuine Cordura® outer wrap and heavy-duty stitching, you can feel confident that the bags will be up to any (reasonable) abuse that you subject them to - all in the name of...

This is some pretty special rosin. I'd hope so, at this pricing! They call it "Bespoke" - meaning "customized" - because you get to mix and match several different hardness/grades to get exactly the feel that you need for your style of play. The rosin...

You've got to keep your bass in a safe environment to protect it from issues, like popped seams, cracks, and other problems. Swings of humidity - both high and low - and rapid temperature changes can cause headaches with our delicate instruments. This...

The Red-Eye preamp can be a simple, and very effective, solution for getting pure sound with high-impedance piezoelectric pickups -- you know, the kind very commonly found on upright basses (as well as many electric uprights). In fact, they are...

Don't just read - HEAR the clear difference. Check out the 30-second demo of this product in the "Videos" tab above! Bring on the THUMP! This really nicely made mute is a relatively new product, developed and hand-crafted by Nino Ocampo in the USA...

All tuners are not created equal! We've carried a fair number of electronic tuners over the years, and we've always carefully vetted them to ensure that they actually work with a double bass - the unusual and complex overtones of our big, long-scale...