{"id":502,"date":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?post_type=bass&#038;p=502"},"modified":"2026-09-13T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T08:46:51","slug":"bass-of-the-week-brooks-eb-rbl","status":"publish","type":"bass","link":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/?bass=bass-of-the-week-brooks-eb-rbl","title":{"rendered":"Bass of the Week: Brooks EB-RBL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Hans-Grimm-with-Brooks-EB-RBL.jpg?resize=960%2C640\" alt=\"Hans Grimm with Brooks EB-RBL\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50929 img-fluid\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hans Grimm<\/strong> shared his fantastic bass on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/notreble\/permalink\/1667779833241089\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Treble Facebook group<\/a>, and it got lots of us excited. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis beauty was built for me by very talented amateur luthier Rob van den Broek, under his Brooks brand,\u201d the bassist wrote. \u201cThe model is based on a classic Gibson, and also sports Hamer-ish looks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old school influenced axe sports a one-piece mahogany body with a matching one-piece mahogany set neck. Pearloid binding adorns the body, which is treated with a transparent black stain finished with a high gloss transparent acrylic. For electronics, van den Broek went with a Seymour Duncan SRB-1B bass humbucker that can be toggled between series, single coil, and parallel operation. <\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"carousel-sync-wrap\">\n<div class=\"carousel-gallery carousel-sync-main\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-Body-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-Back-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-in-Case-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-Truss-Rod-Cover-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-Controls-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-Headstock-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.notreble.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Brooks-EB-RBL-Bass-Back-of-Headstock-1000x667.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item -->\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-main -->    <\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-sync-nav\">\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item --><\/p>\n<div class=\"carousel-item\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-item -->\n\t\t    <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-nav -->  <\/div>\n<p><!-- .carousel-sync-wrap --><\/div>\n<p><!-- .section --><\/p>\n<p><em>Have a cool bass to share? Email us at <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#8ae8e5fefdcae4e5fef8efe8e6efa4e9e5e7\"><span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"a7c5c8d3d0e7c9c8d3d5c2c5cbc289c4c8ca\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Brooks EB-RBL Bass Features:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post-callout\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Grimm shared his fantastic bass on the No Treble Facebook group, and it got lots of us excited. \u201cThis beauty was built for me by very talented amateur luthier Rob van den Broek, under\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1745,"template":"","meta":[],"builder":[],"class_list":["post-502","bass","type-bass","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bass"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bass"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"builder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassoftheweek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbuilder&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}