Try to think of something new in bass guitar design and it’s hard. It’s all been done. Active circuits, passive circuits, concentric stacked knobs, extra switches, you name it. But Joe Dart had an idea – and he and Sterling By Music Man have really come up with something new.
It wasn’t just Dart, to be fair. The bassist credits his Vulfpeck bandleader, Jack Stratton, with this too. They got to talking about bass design. They had a “vision”. What if someone just pared the bass guitar down to its very essence, just four strings and the truth. “Nothing extra, not even a volume knob,” says Dart.
