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Old 03-19-2007, 11:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken Smith View Post
The KSD line of Basses were conceived by a team of players from Brooklyn Gear (a music products distributor) and Ken Smith. These Basses are made in a small shop in Korea from which many of them have worked for one of the biggest shops prior to starting their own. Their goal was to make quality Korean production Guitars and Basses. Brooklyn Gear contracts these Basses to be made, advertises them and distributes them worldwide.

Ken Smith Basses is not the maker or distributor of these Basses at all but rather contracted as a Designer and Consultant as needed with Brooklyn Gear.

Ken Smith Basses does carry a limited number of these Basses from time to time but the bulk of distribution is by worldwide distributors and Retail stores in USA. We do not wish to compete with Brooklyn Gears distribution network. We do however act more like a local dealer in regards to selling the KSDs from our Shop.

We have experimented with a few KSDs by putting one of our Smith B.T. Concentric circuits in them with good results but the fit was not that easy. We then asked our Engineer to design a B.T. model circuit just for the KSD and if it fits other similar Basses, that would be a plus. We made one test unit and it was just what we had hoped for. Currently they are on the schedule to be produced but we first have to make circuits for our own Handmade Smith Basses.

As production time allows, we will eventually have these circuits to put in the KSDs that we sell as our own Shop version along with Bridges and Pickups to offer somewhat of a custom version at a fair market price for the upgrades installed. We would actually prefer doing the KSDs this way from our own shop rather than compete with other KSD dealers in USA. We will still buy (from Brooklyn Gear) and stock the standard models in the meantime as they become available to us but again, we must yield to the needs of other stocking KSD dealers and the distribution program developed by Brooklyn Gear.

Interesting.

Comparatively speaking, how would you describe the sound of these basses after upgrading with your B.T. Concentric Circuit? By the way, when you experimented with this, did you use your P/U's?
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