Kim Deal

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.

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

Kim Deal is pictured with her Fender Precision Bass in a user-uploaded photo, highlighting her connection to this instrument.

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."

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."

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.

You can see the amp behind Kim from pretty much every show back in the 1990's.

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.

In the 1993 music video for "Cannonball" by The Breeders, Kim Deal can be seen playing a Seagull S6 Original, which she often distorts to achieve a distinctive sound.

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."

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.

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 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."

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.

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

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.

In this Article, Kim Deal can be seen in a photo using an Aria Pro II Cardinal Series. She Used it on Come On Pilgrim (Pixies Album) and Surfer Rosa (Pixies Album).

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."

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

Kim Deal played a Steinberger XM-2 Headless Bass during a Pixies performance at Brixton Academy on June 26, 1991, as seen in a YouTube video by cobyblack. She frequently used this bass on the Pixies album "Trompe Le Monde."

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.

In a performance on MTV's "120 Minutes" on November 5, 1993, Kim Deal of The Breeders played a 1962 Fender Stratocaster, tuned half a step down.

In a YouTube video titled "The Breeders - live London 1990 HD," Kim Deal is seen playing an Alvarez RD20SSB acoustic guitar at the 0:16 mark.

In this later… with Jools Holland Kim can be seen singing into it During “cannonball”

Aria Pro II Cardinal Series

Deal has always favoured solid bodied basses. She initially played an Aria Pro II Cardinal Series in the Pixies, which actually belonged to her sister and Breeders bandmate Kelley. This guitar can be heard throughout the Pixies’ first two albums, Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa, and then again in The Kelley Deal 6000, Kelley’s mid-nineties solo project.

“It was the weirdest sounding bass,” said Deal to Bass Player magazine in 2004. “At first I was always like, ‘I’m playing a dumb bass, it’s not a Fender so it’s not cool.’ But then we played with My Bloody Valentine, and that’s band’s bass player had an Aria Pro too.”

We see kim using a Fender Player Plus Meteora Bass guitar, in silverburst color in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybX7T9_pR9s

Kim Deal used the DiMarzio ClipLock 3" Wide Nylon Quick Release Black Guitar Strap with some of her guitars while performing with the Breeders in the 1990s, as evidenced by a photograph available on Equipboard.

Kim Deal used a DiMarzio ClipLock Strap during the 1990s with The Breeders, as evidenced by a photograph available on Equipboard.

Kim Deal used the Leo Quan Badass II Bass Bridge on her basses during the Pixies' reunion until she left the band in 2013, as evidenced by a performance photo taken at the Isle of Wight Festival.