Chester Hansen's Gear

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Chester uses a black Fender Deluxe Active P-Bass with a gold pickguard, and can be seen at 3:49

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Can be seen at 2:01. It appears to be from 1972, because of the pickup position.

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Chester Hansen is shown using a Gibson Grabber bass with a foam mute and the pickup positioned towards the neck in a photo uploaded to Bassfacespace.

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The black EB-4L can be seen at 1:25 and be clearly heard at 2:25 in a solo.

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In the Boiler Room Brownswood Basement live set, Chester Hansen is seen using the Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi pedal.

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"For rehearsing and local gigs I have a GK Fusion 500 with a CX 4×10 cab."

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Seen clearly in this video is the MPX16 sample pad.

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In the Boiler Room Brownswood Basement live set video, Chester Hansen is seen using the Boss CEB-3 Bass Chorus pedal.

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"Live I usually use a Gallien-Krueger 800/700 RB with an 8×10 GK cab."

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"...little Malekko pedals, I use the phaser and vibrato ones live a lot."

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"For rehearsing and local gigs I have a GK Fusion 500 with a CX 4×10 cab."

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He appears to be using a Boss bass equalizer or perhaps the GE-7 version.

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In this live session on KRCW, Hansen is spotted playing a D'Angelico Excel Bass. The item can be seen 0:14 in to the video.

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In the photo, Chester Hansen is using two Gallien-Krueger 2001RB Amplifier Heads: one paired with an 8x10 cabinet and the other with a 1x15 cabinet.

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In more recent years Chester seems to be playing his Moollon P bass, at least in concerts. Here he is at the lowlands festival in 2022 and you can see several closeups of the Moollon.

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The sample pad is used during the chorus at 2:01 to create the sub-bass. It is seen again at 4:57

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"I also have a Gibson SB-300 that I play on some recordings."

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"...little Malekko pedals, I use the phaser and vibrato ones live a lot."

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We can see on the photo that Chester used a GK 1001RB

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