Has anyone upgraded their Dean basses with new tuners, bridge, or pickups? I use a Dean Metalman V and I love it, but it's a POS hardware wise. I would love to upgrade it so I don't have to spend 2K having Dean build me one. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
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Dean bass upgrades
- Thread starter FRNKNHOOKR
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@FRNKNHOOKR, there's a Dean Club here on TalkBass. Feel free to stop by anytime
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As for your hardware upgrade, you can do some different things
Those bridges tend to be just your average fender style pot metal bridges. Buy any "High Mass" replacement bridge and that should fix that. Tuners, Wilkinson or Hipsho, or basically any Y Key style tuner should basically fit. Electronics, Something by EMG should fit. They make passive stuff too if you don't like active. Just measure the pickups and go from there.
Dean Club!!!
As for your hardware upgrade, you can do some different things
Those bridges tend to be just your average fender style pot metal bridges. Buy any "High Mass" replacement bridge and that should fix that. Tuners, Wilkinson or Hipsho, or basically any Y Key style tuner should basically fit. Electronics, Something by EMG should fit. They make passive stuff too if you don't like active. Just measure the pickups and go from there.
Thanks for the info.
Tuners are first...two of mine are bent just from string pressure alone. Pure junk.
Tuners are first...two of mine are bent just from string pressure alone. Pure junk.