All basses except the Ric's are fitted with Hipshot Extender Keys.
Strings - Rotosound swing bass 66. Gauge: 110-85-70-50-30
Cables - Monster Cables
Amplifiers - Ampeg SVT Classic, Randall, Ampeg 8X10, Ampeg 1X15, Ampeg 2X10
w/horn, Randall 2X15
Wireless - Nady 101
Effects - DOD: Stereo Chorus, Stereo Flanger, Octoplus, Bass EQ, Envelope
Filter, 270 A/B. Digitech: Two Second Digital Delay, Digital Stereo
Chorus/Flanger. Ibanez: BP10 Compressor. Korg: AX1B.
Keyboard - Korg: DW8000
Soundmodule - Yamaha: TX81Z. Alesis: Microverb III, SR16
Misc. - The Bass Hammer, EBow
Cases - A&S Custom flight cases

1981 4001 Custom Rickenbacker
This is probably the most famous one. It was really my only real bass for years. I called up Rickenbacker and told them I wanted to buy one, but all the Ric's I found in the stores were pieces of crap. After telling them what I expected, they shipped it directly to me. It has only minor alterations compared to the stock models. Custom binding, I had painted black because I always thought the Ric Geddy played looked gay with the white stripe.
Well one day I grew up and I don't think that way anymore, but that was my reasoning back then. It has stock passive pick-ups. A couple adjustments, like a lower bridge and higher pick-up locations are about it.
It was on all the Sadus demos and appeared on Illusions/Chemical Exposure, Most of Swallowed In Black, Most of A Vision Of Misery, three songs (Aggression, Words Of War and Stronger Than Life) on Elements Of Anger, All of Human, one song on Feeding The Machine (the DiMeola cover - Race With Devil...), one song on the Dark Hall cd (Changing Weather).
It is currently in retirement status, but might see action one day again as Rickenbacker are being puds about making me a new one the way I want it.
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1991 Fully Custom Homemade Fender-Like Fretless
This was a weird project that should've never turned out the way it did. I had this old Fender Precision copy bass and I took it completely apart. I got a fretless neck made from maple with ebony fretboard right from Fender. It's a jazz neck as far as the spec's go. I put passive Bartolini's in it, including digging away for the J pick-up. Also I installed a BadAss Bass II Bridge, the brass one. A cool cut to the pick-guard for easy access to the truss rod for the ever-slinky neck, and it was fully customized.
For fun I broke it out to record Autopsy's Fiend For Blood, and it ended up sounded really cool in the studio. So I decided to use it on a few tunes while recording A Vision Of Misery (Machines, First half of Deceptive Perceptions and the solo in Echoes Of Forever).
It was more of a novelty for metal back then even though it was the main bass I used for Dark Hall. But then in the studio while recording Individual Thought Patterns it turned in to the "frog" and it had to be the only one.
After the tours for Individual with Death it ended up in the retirement hall as well. And no, this one won't be broken out anymore.
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1975 4001 Rickenbacker
This one was a rare find. I acquired it from my bass tech back in '88. It had a much more thunderous sound in the lower tunings than the black Ric. It also has stock passive pick-ups, and a mirror pick-guard I put on. It's a natural maple with a heavy gloss finish.
I busted it out for the Autopsy album, Severed Survival. It was also on one song on Swallowed In Black (Man Infestation and maybe Black - I can't remember if we used the first or second take on this one, the first was the maple the second the black Ric).
It was the bass used on all the Sadus tours, and then promptly retired.
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[Brown Carvin] 1996 Custom Carvin BB75F
I ordered this one from Carvin. I liked the way you could just go option crazy from their catalog. Since all their basses are made only after you order them, in a sense they're all custom. So this one became my new main one.
It's a stained koa wood body. Nice ebony fretless fingerboard, and active electronics. I've updated it with the new wider bridge and added the new preamp circuitry with the mid boost/cut and active/passive knob pull-out on the main volume.
The first appearance was on Elements Of Anger, almost all except for a few songs. It was on most of the Dark Hall cd. All but one song on Feeding The Machine, and entirely all of the Testament album, The Gathering. Also teamed up with it's counterpart to do the Control Denied album, The Fragile Art Of Existence.

[Black Carvin] 1999 Custom Carvin BB75
This one is fairly new and was the christening of my endorsement with Carvin. It was built just in time to make it on The Fragile Art Of Existence (Consumed, intro to What If?, Cut Down and all but the solo on the song The Fragile Art Of Existence where it's counterpart was used on that solo and the rest of the album).
It has active pick-ups, including that new massive music man looking one, and the now standard active/passive knob pull-out. The color is a see-thru black stain on an alder body.

1999 ESP - LTD F-205
This is technically the only really "stock" bass I have. But it sounds beautiful. It was sent by ESP to tide me over until my custom model was built. It's metallic purple and uses active circuitry.
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1999 ESP Custom Forest Fretless
This one looks really beautiful, and feels it as well. It was built totally to my spec's. It was sent up from ESP in Hollywood but built in Japan.
Besides the ebony finger board, it has active 3 band eq pick-ups. It's been around the world with me on all the Testament tours. It's color is see-thru green and has a gloss finish except for the back of the neck where it's natural wood. Important for me on a fretless.
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