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Dean - Brian Bromberg

#21
Woodchuck said:
He's more into keyboards, and my other son is a helluva guitarist.
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get im started on two handed tapping :D ..but a musical family eh....my step father plays guitar, but he doesnt dare set out from the beatles..and he's got 6 guitars..then tells me i dont need more than 1..and im the one thats giggin :hmm: ..mind you his guitars are de armond starfire, cole clarke acoustic, yamaha acoustic, fender tele, vantage vs696 and an epiphone sg :hmm:
 
#24
i was just looking at brians site and had a look at his basses, did peavy used to make his signature? cos on of them has peavey on the headstock but the body shape is the same
heres a few
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this ones just rediculusly beautiful
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#25
I've actually played that ridiculously beautiful one- the maple on it is just sick! It's a fretless, and man does it sing! I've played his original brown one that he made himself with a Moses neck- he cut the body out of a Jazz. If you'll notice the shape of the Peavey body vs. the other one next to it, you'll notice the angles on the lower cutaway are similar, yet totally different.
 
#28
heath_the_great said:
i was just looking at brians site and had a look at his basses, did peavy used to make his signature? cos on of them has peavey on the headstock but the body shape is the same
heres a few
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Yes. Peavey used to make his signature bass. It was called the B-Quad 4 and B-Quad 5. The necks were made of graphite. They had piezos in the bridge. The bass had two outputs. You could pan each string anywhere you wanted in the stereo spectrum. Great bass. I used to have a 4 string. Whish I still did. :crying:
 
#32
I got the Dean and slapped in a set of 57J1s, and I couldn't be happier. It is a very "up front, in your face" bass. It takes no time at all to get used to slapping on it, that is one of the things it was designed for. Go for the MIK Dean, and "Americanize" it with the Barts. You won't be disappointed, I can guarantee you.
 
#33
I've had my eye on one of these for a while!
The UK Bass Guitar magazine did a review of this bass in the current issue and it was very impressive, got the highest score of any bass they've reviewd!
Ther only thing that came out of the review that is worth considering is the cut out for the lower horn makes slap playing a bit odd because you're slapping over nothing, if you get what I mean, the geezer who did the review says "you need to adjust your technique, as there is no woodunder your fingers when popping the G string"

Heres a question, what would it take to utilise the signal from the piezos to output to a 13 pin connector for midi, v-bass etc? Would conecting to the inteernal GK kit do it or is the RMC the better approach. Is this possible?

Tony
 
#34
Bassic83 said:
I got the Dean and slapped in a set of 57J1s, and I couldn't be happier. It is a very "up front, in your face" bass. It takes no time at all to get used to slapping on it, that is one of the things it was designed for. Go for the MIK Dean, and "Americanize" it with the Barts. You won't be disappointed, I can guarantee you.
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Couldn't have said it better! The first thing I noticed was how easy it is to slap. I could do all of my tricks on it without effort. I figured out why it's the first one son used to grab. He found it easier to handle. Now he goes for the Geddy sig. He likes the look! As for the Bromberg, I have 2, but I only play the 5. I strung it E to C. The 4 rarely gets touched.
 
#37
Bassic83 said:
I believe the body shape is a little different, at least on my 5. Mine is comfy sitting or standing. Brian was working with Jan Knooren on a new body shape prior to the Dean deal, it looks similar.
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Yup, and I should know, I helped in constructing that one.
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Brian Used that Bass on all the slap parts on his Jaco Pastorius tribute album "Jaco" most notably on "Slang-ish"

That bass was made out of Alder with a highly figured Japanese Tochi (a relative of the oak family) top with a set in flamed maple neck with an ebony Fingerboard. It has Lane Poor passive J-pickups with an Aquilair pre amp. The result is a very "Marcus Miller" sounding bass.
 
#39
Control layout-
Front stack-Magnetic volumes
Top front single-Master volume
Top back single- Piezo volume
Bottom single- mids
Bottom stack- Bass & treble
Switch- Piezo, both, Magnetics

Easily the most versatile bass I have ever owned. So good, in fact, that I will be incorporating a similar layout in the 6 I am building. However, I have decided to go with Q-Tuners for magnetics, and an ABM piezo bridge. The reason for the change is for the availability of parts. I can duplicate the preamp easily enough...
 
#40
Some of you may find this interesting:

Dean will no longer be making the Jeff Berlin bass.
Apparently the split is amicable (Jeff is still good friends with the head of Dean Guitars).
The new Jeff Berlin Bass will be made by.............Cort.:hmm:
 

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