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Journey of Bass - Sunflowers - on Xylem Aesura Bass
Latin Jazz Demo of Xylem Custom Bass & Custom Guitar
Xylem basses and guitars are custom-built to your exact specifications.
At Xylem, "custom" means much more than simply choosing the color, pickups and fretboard of what is otherwise a standard-model instrument. Xylem creates truly custom basses and guitars that can be personalized down to the smallest detail. Your Xylem instrument will be perfectly suited to you, and will allow you to play like never before.
Want something classic like a Fender or Gibson-inspired instrument? How about something more exotic, or completely unique? Your imagination is the only limit. Xylem can create the bass or guitar of your dreams.
Check out the orders page to order a custom bass or guitar, or see the available Xylem basses and guitars.
Latest Xylem Basses & Guitars
News
4-25-22: Check out Journey of Bass with some new recordings of the Aesura bass! Hear the songs Sunflowers and Spirit Dance with their melodic slap/lead bass sound and feel.
11-29-21: A new lefty custom bass has been posted! The bass has a 35" scale length, EMG PJAX pickups (P-Bass in neck position, J-Bass in bridge), an EMG BQC System preamp and Hipshot hardware. The body of the bass is made of bloodwood, wenge and walnut and includes a ball scroll. The neck is Peruvian walnut with an ebony fretboard and 24 frets.
Also be sure to check out one of the latest builds, a 5-string fretless with blue stabilized box elder topwood!
8-2-21: The new Orianna Custom Guitar is now on the site. This 25.5" (Stratocaster) scale guitar has three Fishman Fluence pickups. The neck pickup is approximately in Les Paul position, the middle pickup is in Strat position and the bridge pickup is in its own unique place (about 1/8" closer to the neck than the bass-side of a Strat bridge pickup). The Fluence pickups are custom-wired with tons of switching options: each knob has a push/pull function, all pickup combinations are possible, and there are three mini-toggles with independent voices for each pickup! Check out the guitar to learn more.
6-26-21: The new Gymir 5-string piccolo bass is here! It is a true piccolo bass, tuned one octave above a regular bass guitar. It includes a Kahler tremolo, Q-Tuner Q2.0 pickups, beautiful maple burl tops, dog paw inlays and a "fusion" fretboard made of bloodwood and purpleheart with a curved sine wave joint between them.
We also recommend listening to guitarist Raz Sisneros' YouTube channel Vanjula Studios. Raz has a Xylem guitar on order which will be built soon. In the mean time, check out Raz's tune "Vishoka - Let Them Come"
6-21-21: The new Aesura custom bass is on the site, along with sound samples of its Mike Pope preamp with Nordstrand Power Blade and Big J-Blade pickups. Check out its aquamarine block inlays and the abalone sea turtle inlay too!
8-5-19: A new five-string custom bass is available at Chicago Music Exchange!
7-30-19: A new baritone Xylem guitar with Seymour Duncan pickups, Hipshot hardware, a wenge pickguard and a maple burl top has been posted to the site!
7-24-19: See the new Thunderbird-inspired Xylem bass with its ACG preamp, Bartolini pickups and killswitch a la Tom Morello and Buckethead.
7-17-19: Check out the new Sinistra four-string short scale bass. The new bass has a Kahler tremolo, EMG 35-DC pickup and EMG BTS Control preamp (Primus anyone?).
Dina Simone also has a new video covering Nick Waterhouse's Money that features the "Shishido" Xylem bass!
Want a better slap bass tone? Check the Xylem article:
Slap Bass - Techniques, Adjustments and Tricks to Develop Your Tone