Aria Basses

A demo for the IGB-600. Not my best playing or recording but you'll get the idea of how it sounds compared to the SB-Integra.

Here's a demo I made of the SB-1000CB to show some of the tones available from this model. 

Here is my demo of an SB-Integra...Apologies in advance for shoddy playing! 

Here's a video of Billy Gould during the recording sessions of Faith No More's seminal album  Angel Dust.  In it, Bill plays an Aria...

Well, things have been pretty slow on my blog for quite some time due to my grad school studies. I probably won't be able to do many upd...

Trevor,  who earlier documented the neck repair of his SB-Elite , now has a great site which documents how he modified the electronics with ...

Back on September 3, 1998 I went to see Metallica play an outdoor show at Portland (Oregon) Meadows. It was quite an experience, to say th...

IGB-DLX 5 & IGB-85B Jake from Australia sends in pics of his two Aria Pro II Integra basses. They're both early '90s models w...

This is the first in what I hope to be a regular series of posts on "famous" Arias basses. I will post about basses that were owne...

Here is another Ventures / Bob Bogle bass, this one from about 1990. This bass is actually quite similar to the SB-JR750 model but with Se...

I finally got around to stringing up my SB-R60 with some DR Black Beauty strings. As you can see I was going for a 'stealth' look h...

Here is an interesting Aria bass called the Zodiac. It's not quite my style, but it would sure be a conversation piece! It is a custom s...

I found photos of a rare Aria Pro bass that I believe is part of the RSB-Fire lineup. The RSB-Fire was basically a signature model for a J...

Dale Titus demos another Aria bass, this time a DMB-380. Dale demonstrates the various tones and features of this model. You can also see...

Here is a nice demonstration of the Aria SB-CB by Dale Titus of Dana B. Goods (US distributors for Aria). For those who don't know, the...

I posted about an Aria 50th anniversary bass last year, but I finally found pictures of another anniversary bass. This might also be a 5oth...

Here is a rare headless SB with MIDI capabilities that I found online. As you can see, it is an "AP Custom Shop" bass. I have no i...