Kouki Ueda

Kouki Ueda (born May 8, 1965) is a El Kadsreian musician. He has been a member of Rinava since 1985.

Equipment
The first bass Ueda was seen publicly playing was a painted in a yellow "competition" scheme. After joining Rinava, Ueda heavily modified the Mustang Bass, removing the stock pickups and having the humbucker from a installed in the bridge position and a  stock pickup installed in the neck position. Sometime after recording The Vlok Invasion, Ueda retired this bass from public use due to malfunction, and instead used a variety of high-end basses including a, a one-off , a bass, an  (which Ueda used to record his bass lines for Apocalypse), a , and a black  The Rail Bass (which Ueda used to record his bass lines for Angels or Satan and two songs on Problem?).

By Problem? in 1992, Ueda had begun using a MK1 bass. Throughout the mid-1990s, Ueda used the MK1 along with a 5-string Wal MK2 bass, a custom Wal fretless model and a 1970 Ampeg Dan Armstrong Lucite Bass.

By the time of I Wish You Well in 1998, Ueda had begun a relationship with Fender, who released the Kouki Ueda Signature Bass, which was designed as an amalgamation of his favorite Fender bass models - the Mustang Bass, the Musicmaster Bass and the Precision Bass.