Nobody likes a neck that’s constantly on the move. Implement a steeldual action trussrod and carbon fibre reinforcements into each neck. This creates stability and allows for comfortable neck adjustments, as well as easy future servicing. This neck is designed to last. Lightweight tuners help to eliminate the neckdive caused by heavy tuners. However, the mass of heavy tuners does add to tone, but a thicker headstock does the same thing. So on Soulmate you have both goodies: light weight, balanced, and enhanced tone. De Gier uses a fairly unique method for creating fretslots. You can learn more in this video. In short: Sander found a way to make use of the inner strenght of the wood instead of cutting it away. That enhances stability, it also prevents fretends from sticking out over time. It’s also quite elegant. Many vintage basses have small frets. They play so easy, it’s almost as if you play better. But if they wear down, you can’t level them anymore, you need a refret. On the Soulmate are small vintage frets, but made from a harder nickel silver alloy, they last! Soulmate features a compound fingerboard radius of 6.5” to 8”. This stays close to the 7.25” of vintage basses. The advantage of a compound radius is that it allows for a lower setup than a constant radius. The pickup is a splitcoil and therefore humcancelling. The control cavity is shielded with thick copperfoil, the pickup poles get grounded and the whole pickguard is grounded to eliminate electrostatic noise. It is quiet. There is passive Volume and Tone. 3.6kg only!

Current retail € 4285,-