BASS VI - Squier Vintage Modified?! - DEMO!! pg12

[rfurtkamp]

I paid full non-discount retail but had one of the earliest in the US. I'm AOK with that, was worth every penny and given the short supply for literally over half a year....I made out like a bandit!

[neonblack]

in order to avoid further hijacking a different thread, I have a couple questions about the bass vi.

as a full time bass player who sucks hard at guitar, Im concerned about how much i would use those other 2 strings. Do you bassists out there use those other two strings enough to justify the purchase? Do you feel it has influenced/changed/improved your writing style?

Anyone tried any weird tunings with this? Unison? Octave type 12-string-ish tunings? is this even possible?

My dream is to get a bass vi, a looper, and a drummer, and go full noise-doom-spazz-core.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Weird tunings are very possible, and super fun. I just had a lot of fun jamming with it in GGDGBD, the unison bass is aaaawesome with fuzz. I love unison strings.

Maybe not the best person to answer the other bit since I also play a lot of guitar, but I get a lot of use out of the high strings. Obviously for chords but also you can be playing bass register and suddenly take a lead break much higher than you can with a regular bass and I love that. If you want to loop, it has a really good range for layering different sounds because there's the serious bass but also room for quite high notes.

[neonblack]

Gonna need to find a store around here that has one and take my board and fool around a bit.

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, it's the first bass that didn't at some point when playing with another person make me wish I was on my guitar.

Not because I was playing it like a guitar most of the time but simply because options were there for passing notes etc in registers the Jazz can't touch.

The only thing that sucked was I had to rearrange the board a bit to take it into account - it loved most of my existing stuff but I had to make room for things that *loved* it that I rarely used on guitar.

[neonblack]

Do you think your pedal options are more limited with it? I guess for someone with a board full of bass pedals it wouldn't be much of a change.

[rfurtkamp]

No, they're not limited at all really - it really, really likes my keepers (which I suspected because they also loved my Jazz) - the Scrambler/Blender/Test Pattern/my custom monster. It loves the Phantom Ring I picked up shortly after the VI arrived (which I don't use much on guitar), and what I got out of the Basic Audio tourbox from John I picked partly because it worked with *everything* - think the only thing that it doesn't love a whole lot is the Ultimate Octave/Foxx Tone Machine clone, or some things with the different impedance with the strangle switch on (same as the Jaguar) or vice versa.

I'm also not gunning for standard bass player dude stuff - I want wall of mean that makes the dooms feel like soft rock most of the time.

[coldbrightsunlight]

The only pedal on my board it doesn't love is the Algal Bloom, which I find loses a lot of lows with normal bass but plain doesn't work with the vi. Everything else sounds great, with a board of bass pedals you'll be happy. I have to change settings because of the output but stuff sounds good.

[MrNovember]

The only pedal on my board it doesn't love is the Algal Bloom, which I find loses a lot of lows with normal bass but plain doesn't work with the vi. Everything else sounds great, with a board of bass pedals you'll be happy. I have to change settings because of the output but stuff sounds good.

Really? I just tested out my Algal on the Bass VI before I traded it and it seemed to love it?
Mind you I didn't do a whole lot of playing on it, just made sure it worked, but still I thought it sounded really good

But yeah neonblack you really shouldn't have an issue with a bass board, I don't find that it limits anything, just plays a little differently due to the output differences

[coldbrightsunlight]

Huh that's weird. For me it just seems to lack balls, maybe I haven't played with settings enough.

[Derelict78]

I read about a mod that may help. Change the strangle to a series parallel switch. Some say it adds balls!

[coldbrightsunlight]

I bet it would! I'll look into it.

[Psyre]

Monkey, do you have an Elements? Run it as an EQ into the Algal, OMG OMG OMG!

[coldbrightsunlight]

I do not, I really want one though. Pretty high on the GAS list at this point!