Bought an aftermarket pickguard (for a squier) and I don't know if it's sloppy or if the pickups on the fender are a couple mm wider. I'm picky, and flush is flush, loose is loose.
apologies if disallowed, but does anyone with a squire VI want to trade a stock tortoise pickguard for the stock one here (light mint or maybe parchment, not white). I bought one but it's not cut right and that could keep happening over and over.
I’m looking for a bass VI of any kind, I would like to pay $200-250 but i’m willing to pay up to $300. I’ve looked online and the only models I can find under nearly $500 (harley benton and g4m) have insane shipping costs as I live in the United States.
It's been a couple months now of trading and rehabbing to sell gear trying to work my way into a Bass VI. It's a pretty slim chance that someone wants what you have and has what you want, so I did a lot of lateral trading in the mean time, and was kind of biting my nails expecting that I wouldn't be happy with it until I dropped another few hundred on a bridge and strings, after which I'd have a decent amount of set up to do.
Well guess what, I made an even trade today, and this guy already has a mastery bridge and vibrato! All set up too, I just brought it home and it's perfect!
Now I just have to get my head around how to work my board.
I mainly play guitar, and that's what my board is set up for. It's straight forward (Slow Loris [which sounds incredible with the VI]->Benson Boost->Phase 90 ->Halberd->Foxcatcher->mother preamp->hxfx).
Anyone have any advice for a generally guitar centric setup? Like do you have standard eq tweaks you make? You have a separate board? What's on it? I'm all ears!
Thanks!!
You'd think there would plenty of companies making noiseless options that don't require body modifications but the only company I've found that has any available models is JBE Pickups and they're expensive as hell.
So I'm just curious what other people are recording with their bass vi. For me I'm working on a postmetal album and it's being used as a secondary rhythm guitar to thicken up chugs and chords.
I'm interested to see how others are using theirs and also what mods they're using. I'm tempted to mod mine to allow for a humbucker in the bridge position as I feel that may be a bit better for me
After lurking here for ages, I decided to go with the Ibanez SRC6MS. It's more my vibe aesthetically and musically, I'm big into metal and super excited for the 30" scale.
I plan to throw on labella flats, refinish it black through the rest of body/headstock, swap out the stock monorail bridges for gold hardware (pain to find), drop in lighter weight gold bass tuners, upgrade the knobs, and eventually upgrade the pickups and electronics. I'll probably be happy enough with the Bertollinis for a while.
My wife has known I've had my eyes on this instrument for ages and I came across a great condition used bass at a decent price and a Darkglass combo amp at an even better price. She gave me her blessing and I pulled the trigger after running new and used costs through different retailers.
I went with the Darkglass combo since I was able to get it for way less than the cost of the DG Microtubes bass amp head alone. Plus 2 10" speakers with the Microtube flavor already built into the amp. I know, I'll want modularity and portability later, but it was too perfect to pass up for the tone I'm after. I've got a Fender FM212R and I'm looking forward to splitting the signal between the new bass and old guitar amp.
Pics will come when the gear does. 😁
I bought a bass vi with the intention of putting baritone strings on it and using it as a baritone guitar, but when my baritone strings finally got here they aren’t long enough to fit from the bridge to the tuners. I bought ddarrio EXL157s. Is there a specific brand that makes strings that are long enough for a bass vi neck? I’m looking for 14s thank you!
I have a Eastwood Hooky P o 6, and I recently bought a set of Fender Bass VI strings, but the ball ends go right through the bridge holes. When I bought the bass I bought a set of Hooky/GHS strings which are great. My problem now is that I need anew set of strings, and I’m in Europe. Is there any way to get a similar set here? Preferably 30-105 strings