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No bass splits a room like the Bongo. One look at that carved, crescent-inlaid body and players either grin or shake their heads — until they plug one in. Then the argument ends. Twenty-plus years after it launched, the Bongo remains the most forward-thinking bass Ernie Ball Music Man has ever made, and Bass Central stocks it in 4, 5, and 6-string. Designed With BMW, Built to Be Played The Bongo’s shape wasn’t a styling accident — Music Man developed the body with BMW Gro …

Lakland built its name in Chicago the slow way: Dan Lakin started the company in 1994 making basses that took the classic American designs seriously — the right woods, the right hardware, necks that feel broken-in from day one — and the Skyline series is how most players get in. Skylines are built overseas to Lakland's specs and inspected and set up in Chicago before they ship, and they carry the same designs as the handmade USA line at a working player's price. Our Lakland wall righ …

Ask a room of bassists to name the sound of an active humbucker and most of them will describe a StingRay before they finish the sentence. That punch — aggressive, articulate, impossible to bury in a mix — has been Ernie Ball Music Man's calling card for decades, and the modern lineup is the best version of it yet: roasted maple necks, lightweight hardware, and an 18-volt preamp with headroom for days. Bass Central stocks Music Man deep. Right now the wall carries 97 Ernie Ball Music …

Jim Bergantino didn't start with amplifiers. He started with cabinets — and built a reputation, out of Massachusetts, for boxes so accurate and so efficient that engineers and players started using them as the reference everything else got judged against. The amps came later, built to the same standard. Bergantino's whole philosophy fits in two words: hear everything — the bass, the room, the truth — with headroom to spare. At Bass Central, our Bergantino wall is compact but co …

Sandberg builds basses the German way: by hand, in Braunschweig, since 1986. Founder Holger Stonjek started the company with one idea — take the classic California shapes every bassist already loves, and build them with obsessive precision, modern hardware, and woods and finishes the big factories wouldn't bother with. Nearly forty years on, Sandberg is what players reach for when they want a familiar silhouette that plays like a precision instrument. At Bass Central, Sandberg is one of ou …

If you've ever fought a floppy low B string, you've already met the problem Dingwall solves. Every other string on a standard bass gets the scale length it wants except the thick ones — so the B ends up loose, muddy, and hard to intonate. Sheldon Dingwall's answer, built in Saskatoon, Canada since the 1990s, is the fanned fret: each string gets its own scale length, long where it needs to be long (37 inches on a 5-string's low B) and shorter for the high strings. The result is a low end wi …

There's the Fender you buy off the wall, and then there's the Fender Custom Shop. Since 1987, the Custom Shop in Corona, California has been Fender's dream factory — a small team of builders recreating the golden-era Jazz and Precision basses in obsessive detail, and building limited runs you'd never find in a standard production line. Hand-selected woods, hand-wound pickups, and aging work done by hand, one instrument at a time. At Bass Central, Fender Custom Shop basses are a specialty, …

     Some news out of the great white north! Dingwall has released two new models. Dingwall Combustion Amos Williams Signature Bass, Natural Matte/Pau Ferro Renowned for his groundbreaking bass work with UK progressive metal pioneers TesseracT, the Amos Williams Signature model brings a host of performance-driven features to the Ready to Play artist lineup. The 4-string version features Dingwall’s signature 34.75–37″ multi-scale design and comes factory tuned t …

     This is a more in depth look at Bass Central's Fender Custom Shop Basses we have in stock. Today we are looking at: The Fender Custom Shop Postmodern P Bass, PJ, Aged Inca Silver/Maple  Fender Custom Shop Postmodern P Bass, PJ, Aged Inca Silver/Maple IN STOCK Some Brief History regarding the year 1959, The 1959 Fender Precision Bass is considered one of the most iconic and collectible versions of the P-Bass, sitting at a pivotal point in its history. It was par …

Bass Central's Fender Custom Shop Jazz Basses For Sale are growing! Check out these Jazz Basses made by the Fender Custom Shop, IN STOCK! Remember NO TAX (Excl FL) FREE Shipping In The Continental USA! Fender Custom Shop Heavy Relic 1961 Jazz Bass, Faded Bleached 3TSB /Rosewood IN STOCK Fender Custom Shop 1975 NOS Jazz Bass, Faded Walnut/BEM *IN STOCK* Fender Custom Shop Time Machine Journeyman 1965 Jazz Bass, Faded Dakota Red/Rosewood Fender Custom Shop 1964 RELIC Artisan Jazz Bass, Honeybu …