As what can only be described as the craziest year in living memory comes to a welcome close, we’ve rolled around to our yearly Gear Of The Year round-up, featuring our recommendations for the best new bass products released in the last 12 months. Despite the current pandemic’s grip on the planet, there has been a considerable amount of new gear launched this year, some of which we first encountered at Winter NAMM back in January.
With finances becoming increasingly stretched for everyone, value for money has become even more important, and here at Bass Player, value is very much a primary consideration when we’re reviewing gear and equipment. Extra costs to the player in the form of cool paint jobs, or irrelevant amounts of bling, don’t cut the mustard if the basic performance of an instrument isn’t really up to scratch. In this round-up, all of the gear and equipment we’ve honored is very much on point, with the player benefiting from improved production methods and technological advances.