About us

Paul’s Bass Matters started september 1999 as the first bass-only store in the Netherlands. Very soon we grew from the small store we started out as into the household name we now are. Every bassplayer knows Bassmatters is the place to be. Our service is like our coffee: legendary and addictive…

From the get-go it was clear what was needed here: a knowledgebase for the serious players at all levels where an answer could be found for all questions related to bass. What we don’t know we’ll find out for you. We certainly don’t pretend to know everything but between us we’ve always been able to find satisfying answers. Of course in a store a lot of things have to be tried and checked, so our stock continues to grow every day. 

The vast experience we already had when we started out grew with every passing day we talked to bassplayers. This has been to your benefit as our customer, we now know a problem for every solution…(or was that the other way around?) Questions about tone, wood, electronics, pickups, setup, repairs, lessons, cables, basses, amps, speakers…we have answered tons of them and were quite happy to keep on doin’ that for years on end. Every week we have learned something new so we could help you a little better. Talking about basses and all things related has become second nature to us and we’ll probably never get bored doing just that all day every day! But for now we're done with having the shop for a while: we're taking a year off and are calling it a sabbatical. By early 2027 this will end but we are completely clueless as to what will follow. We'll let you know if it's anything of interest.