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The SBL Podcast

210 - The Top 10 Gifts To Get For The Bassist In Your Life

The SBL Podcast

Scott's Bass Lessons

Scott's Bass Lessons, Bass Guitar, Bass, Online Bass Lessons, Education, Music Interviews, Electric Bass, Music, Sbl

4.8522 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What do bass players actually want for Christmas? Ian and Sharon make it easy (and fun), running through gift ideas by category and taking it all the way from budget friendly to full bougie. In-ears, straps, strings, pedals, amps, gig bags, bass recs, and a few wildcard picks — it’s the ultimate bass player wish list, minus the guesswork.

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0:00.0

Sharon, it's about that time. It is. Do you hear the bells? Ching, ching, ching. You're tuned in because you want to find out some gift ideas. Probably for you. Don't lie. Yeah, just for yourself. Don't lie. This will help you get an idea how much you can splurge on your family while still allowing you to get the things that you want. So this will help you make your Christmas budget.

0:23.1

Yeah. And I don't know if you're a musician that writes off some stuff. Boy, oh boy, getting it in

0:28.2

before the old calendar year flips over. It's important. Also, you might have a bass player in your

0:34.6

life or musician in your life. This might be really helpful for them, too, ideas for them.

0:39.9

So check it out.

0:40.6

We've got categories.

0:42.1

We're not just going to go willy-nilly through it like we've done in the past, huh?

0:47.4

We've got categories, though, Sharon.

0:49.6

We're talking today about in-ears.

0:52.0

We're going to talk about straps.

0:54.3

We're going to talk about strings. We're going to talk about strings.

0:56.7

We're going to talk about amps, pedals, accessories, pedal boards, gig bags, miscellaneous.

1:08.3

Oh, you know what's going in there for me.

1:10.1

I can't wait to show you. Interfaces. And at the end,

1:14.1

we are going to give some base recommendations as well. And we're going to kind of go from what,

1:18.1

like budget to boogie. Yeah, I think we have like a budget and a boogie version for pretty much

1:23.4

most of them, right? Yeah. More or less. Yeah. And some of these things, we'll just be very transparent with you about some of these things

1:31.2

that we're involved with.

1:32.3

Like, I'm going to recommend some things that I love and I'm involved with them.

1:36.1

But I love that they exist and I would use them even if I wasn't involved.

1:41.0

Things that I love that Ian was involved with.

1:46.0

I mean, but I'll tell you.

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