Matt's Gear
- I have a 30's-40's Juzek carved bass. The neck has been reset by Bill Merchant in NYC. Bob Beerman at The Bass Violin Shop in Greensboro NC, recently repaired 17 years worth of cracks and made adjustments that fine-tuned the instrument after those years of playing.
- Spirocore Weichs Strings on the E and A, and Pirastro Obligatos Strings on the D and G.
- Kolstein French Bow - it's great.
- Pops bass rosin.
- K&K Golden Bullet microphone combined with a new Underwood pick-up through a K&K Trinity system preamp. This pre-amp also allows me to mix microphone and pick-up volume separately.
- Bass Sans Amp as a preamp sometimes.
- Walter Woods amp with An Acoustic Image speaker or Flite sound speakers. Either a 1x12 or 1x15.
- I use a GK 200mb too.
- I use a Merchant Vertical Bass electric upright bass for many things. It is a great instrument. I use it on all kinds of gigs.
Me with the Merchant in St Croix.
On the electric side I use two old Fenders:
- I have a Candy Apple red Jazz from 1966.
- I use a Sunburst '69 Jazz with a Warmoth fretless neck. Everything is stock except the bridge saddles on the '66 are Mighty Mites. The originals just ate strings alive. I still have them. The '66 I got in '72 for $200. It still rocks.
- I just got a red Fender Squire 5 string. What a great bass for the money!