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Foo Fighters - Nate Mendel Bass Gear Rig and Equipment
Who Plays What - Who Plays What
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 05:02

Nate Mendel is the bassist in the band Foo Fighters and formerly of the band Sunny Day Real Estate.

Let's look at some of the gear and equipment that has been seen in the Foo Fighters Nate Mendel's bass rig.

CoolClick the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's FriendCool

 

Bass Guitars
- Two Lakland Bob Glaub Signatures
- Two custom Fender Precisions with Leo Quan Badass II bridges (reproductions of Nate’s ’71 P-Bass)

Leo Quan BadAss Bass Bridge II Black


- Red Fender P bass with black pickguard

Fender Standard Precision Bass Chrome Red


- Gibson Ripper bass (in the pretender video)

- 1971 red Fender Precision bass (his first P-Bass. Neck was only made for 1/2 year in 1971 and was in between jazz/precison neck)



Amps and Cabinets

- Ashdown BTA 400

- Ashdown ABM 900 EVO II

Ashdown ABM 900 EVO II 2-Channel Bass Amp Head


- two Ashdown 8x10 cabinets

Ashdown NEO 810 8 x 10 Bass Cab





Effects and More
- Line 6 Bass PODxt Pro

Line 6 Bass POD XT Pro


- Fulltone Bass-Drive Mosfet pedal

Fulltone Bass Drive MOSFET Overdrive


- Boss GEB-7 Bass Equalizer

Boss GEB-7 Bass Equalizer Pedal


- Shure UHF wireless
- Boss TU-3 tuner pedal

Boss TU-3 Chromatic Pedal Tuner

- Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2+ Power Supply





Strings and Picks
-  GHS Bass Boomers (.045–.105)

GHS M3045 Bass Boomers Medium Electric Bass Strings


- .84mm picks

Last Updated on Thursday, 28 April 2011 08:22
 

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0 #7 RE: Foo Fighters - Nate Mendel Bass Gear Rig and Equipmentnave 2011-12-24 07:18
He is also used 1978 fender precision bass light wood color.

he played on thier show in Wembley Stadium 2008 on this guitar,heres a picture:
www.vintageandrare.com/.../original.jpg
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0 #6 Nate and Fender bassesuberproaud 2011-04-28 08:01
Nate Mendel talks about Fender basses in this new video www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0eqlNKBFs8&NR
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0 #5 RE: Foo Fighters - Nate Mendel Bass Gear Rig and EquipmentJarrett 2011-04-14 16:53
Nate is using an Ashdown BTA 400 now on both the new record and the tour
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+1 #4 RE: Foo Fighters - Nate Mendel Bass Gear Rig and EquipmentSy 2011-03-14 10:10
Actually Greg, it is the Lakland Bob Glaub Signature bass he uses in the video. You can tell by the egg shaped bridge.
Looks a lot like a P bass though, I can see why you were mistaken.
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+1 #3 RE: Foo Fighters - Nate Mendel Bass Gear Rig and EquipmentHuhConfused 2010-12-11 18:27
The Grabber is used in Best of Me
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+5 #2 Tim 2010-02-24 13:12
I believe it is actually a Bob Glaub signature he is using in the Pretender video!
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0 #1 Greg 2009-10-09 15:19
he used an all black p-bass in the pretender video
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