Bass of the Week: Brooks QB
This week we’re checking out another jaw-dropping instrument built by Rob van den Broek of Brooks. The Brooks QB is a twelve-string bass built as a tribute to the Quad Bass built by Jol Dantzig…
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This week we’re checking out another jaw-dropping instrument built by Rob van den Broek of Brooks. The Brooks QB is a twelve-string bass built as a tribute to the Quad Bass built by Jol Dantzig of Hamer for Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson. Where the original design had a quadrophonic pickup with controls for each string’s output, the QB is configured with three pickups – a Lace Alumitone and two Nordstrand NM4’s –…
Specs
- Body
- Mahogany
- Top
- Flamed Maple
- Neck
- Five-piece Mahogany/Maple with Carbon Stiffening Rod
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Scale
- 34″
- Pickups
- 1 x Lace Alumitone, 2 x Nordstrand NM4
- Bridge
- Custom made 12 string bridge and tailpiece
- Tuners
- 4 x Gotoh GB 350 Lightweight Bass Tuners, 8 x Gotoh ST-31 Octave string Lightweight Tuners
