Kim Deal

Used mainly with The Breeders alongside her sister Kelley Deal. Can also be seen in a Breeders performance.

Kim Deal uses a red Fender Stratocaster Ultra as her main electric guitar since 1993. You can see it in the linked (kinda recent) video.

This was the Les Paul Goldtop that Joey Santiago borrowed from Kim Deal to play in the early years of the Pixies. It was then played by her twin sister Kelley Deal in the Breeders and is sometimes played by Kim herself.

Can be seen since 1993. Kim Deal often distorts her Seagull and gets a nice sound out of it.

From Musician Magazine - September 1993 (Interview with Kim & Tanya): "I usually go through the JCM 900, but Kelley bought a new Marshall cabinet, so now I let her use it and I use an old JCM head and cabinet. I also have a Peavey Classic 50 and an old Sears Tremolo amp that we've pasted the word 'Marshall' on."

From Musician Magazine - September 1993 (Interview with Kim & Tanya): "I usually go through the JCM 900, but Kelley bought a new Marshall cabinet, so now I let her use it and I use an old JCM head and cabinet. I also have a Peavey Classic 50 and an old Sears Tremolo amp that we've pasted the word 'Marshall' on.

At about 44:58 into the loudQUIETloud Pixies documentary, Kim Deal walks into her touring studio holding a Marshal MG10CD and plugs it into a socket on the wall.

his main replace for her signature basss

From Musician Magazine - December 1990: Kim Deal plays a Fender Precision Bass and a Music Man Stingray. Also Wikipedia lists it as a notable bass of her. This photo features Kim Deal with a red Music Man Stingray https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/31/a6/6a/31a66a1b111c33c17170d5b2eeeadf1b.jpg

Originally her sister Kelley's bass, Kim borrowed it when she joined The Pixies and used it as her main bass on Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa. It was replaced (possibly returned to Kelley) by a Fender '62 Reissue Bass.

The provided source links to a copy (the original page is gone) of a BassPlayer.com interview by Bill Leigh from November 2004 featuring Kim Deal.

What's your main bass today? "My main bass is a Fender Precision, and I plug it into an Ampeg SVT. I also have an Ernie Ball Music Man StingRay; I try to swap onstage but there's just no time between songs. The Precision is coral-colored, a classic custom color. It's a '62 reissue."

It was hard to find the exact model. But I think it is a Steinberger XM-2D. Kim Deal used it a lot on the Pixies album "Trompe Le Monde".

Kims favorite bass. Acquired it around the 2000s for the Breeders album "Title TK". Never played it after the Pixies reunion though to be closer to the recordings.

In this interview with Marc Maron, at about 1:04:08 Kim says she had a studio back at her house and used a 1/2" 8-track by Tascam. In a different interview she had with StereoGum.com, she mentions the 8-track again.

"So I always had a studio, even when I was a teenager living at home. I had a Tascam 38 8-track. I would make my own cords and solder them. I’d buy a spool of cable and make my own cords. I had all these patches that I created and it got ridiculously complicated. I still kind of do that all the time."

In a StereoGum.com interview with T. Cole Rachel on the 7th of April 2014, Kim got into some details about her Tascam studio gear.

"Right now I’ve got a 338 quarter inch thing, you know they look like a big four-track Tascam? They break all the time. It’s consumer grade, man. It always breaks. It never really works. I ended up getting that and it’s driving the Tascam 16-track half inch, so I’m really liking that. I’m using the 338 as a pre-amp for recording onto the 16-track."

In this interview with Marc Maron, at about 1:04:27 Kim says she had a studio back at her house where she made solo music and used an Oberheim DX to create her beats.

At 45:19 into the loudQUIETloud documentary, Kim Deal uses a Tascam 424 MKIII to record guitar for a new Breeders album while on tour with The Pixies.

Kim is pictured here with her Black & White Racer X Strap.

The provided source links to a copy (the original page is gone) of a BassPlayer.com interview by Bill Leigh from November 2004 featuring Kim Deal.

Any special picks? "The green Dunlops with the little turtle on them."

At 44:54 into the loudQUIETloud Pixies documentary, a quick look into Kim Deal's improvised touring studio reveals a white Roland MA-8 monitor on the table behind her 8-track.

Kim records herself singing while wearing Audio Technica ATH-910 Pro headphones at about 46:07 into the loudQUIETloud Pixies documentary.