Let's see your BASS VI, people

Disarm D'arcy · Post by **Disarm D'arcy** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:31 pm

Not necesseraly heavier strings. I switched to d'addarios in the same gauge and it made a heck of a difference on the low E front. I'm afraid a thicker gauge would take away the heavy baritone guitar feel that I like so much.

neonblack · Post by **neonblack** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:08 pm

I want mine to be a bit more bass-like so I'm planning on getting the 102 set from circle k.

In other news, I got a 141g yesterday and its even better on bass vi than on 4 string. It does some crazy glitching on the higher strings with the bridge pickup and then I can switch to the neck and get some square wave/suboctave tones.

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 4:30 pm

Don't ask me how, but I managed to fuck up my LaBella flatwounds, so I had to put the fender ones back on.

Definitely felt ten times better with the LaBellas...FML.

coldbrightsunlight · Post by **coldbrightsunlight** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 4:54 am

neonblack wrote:I think heavier strings probably fix that to some extent. Mines a little buzzy but it stays in tune pretty well. I still have the stock strings on it and I don't hate it.

I put on a thicker low E but I do need to try getting a whole new set.

Jwar · Post by **Jwar** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:00 pm

UglyCasanova wrote:Don't ask me how, but I managed to fuck up my LaBella flatwounds, so I had to put the fender ones back on.

Definitely felt ten times better with the LaBellas...FML.

You fucking guitarist break more strings than I've ever seen. hahaha. I've watched it happen so many times it cracks me up. Did you over tune it? Please tell me yes.

LaBellas SUCK dude. Hahaha. Overpriced shit. IMO.

I don't want fret buzz, that shit drives me fucking INSANE.

Are non Squier versions better?

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:21 pm

No, I did even worse. I hate having lots of string wrapped around the tuning posts, so I figured I'd trim down the LaBella's. Trimmed the wrong string and I made it too short to reach its intentional tuning post.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:19 pm

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neonblack · Post by **neonblack** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:37 am

SEXY.

I messed with my eq a bit today. I'm finding that I like more brightness with my VI than I do a four string. I'm also finding that I love the bridge pickup on this thing, where I've never really liked them before.

Bridge pickup with the tone rolled off into my 141g is bliss. Growly, snarling, oscillating bliss.

Also, if I build a bass vi, I'm going to do a volume and tone knob for each pickup and a les Paul style 3 way pickup selector.

Derelict78 · Post by **Derelict78** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:35 pm

jwar wrote:
UglyCasanova wrote:Don't ask me how, but I managed to fuck up my LaBella flatwounds, so I had to put the fender ones back on.

Definitely felt ten times better with the LaBellas...FML.

You fucking guitarist break more strings than I've ever seen. hahaha. I've watched it happen so many times it cracks me up. Did you over tune it? Please tell me yes.

LaBellas SUCK dude. Hahaha. Overpriced shit. IMO.

I don't want fret buzz, that shit drives me fucking INSANE.

Are non Squier versions better?

I have zero fret buzz. I did a lengthy setup on it after I put circle K's on it.

kosta · Post by **kosta** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:57 am

Mudfuzz wrote:
viewtopic.php?f=192&t=34872

MUDDDDDDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

backwardsvoyager · Post by **backwardsvoyager** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:11 am

man I got a Squier VI today (won't bother with pics until i modify it cos it's just a stock standard black one)
cannot get over how sweet it sounds, i've just been playing clean into a JC120 with a touch of vibrato and reverb, the range of tones with the 4 switches is perfect.
quality wise i think the binding/nut look ugly up close (normal for any squier) and the bridge and tailpiece are obviously pretty low quality but god damn at that price the fact the frets are neat as hell and everything feels comfortable and solid is awesome. once i tweaked the setup to my preference i didn't feel like i was playing a cheap guitar.
gonna get a staytrem and black pickguard when i can afford and block off the trem (too narrow bend range to be useful to me and the spring affects tuning stability a bit), definitely feels like its worth investing upgrades in.

kosta · Post by **kosta** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 12:00 am

Homies who have upgraded to Staytrem bridges - did you also use some kind of bushings to keep the bridge from rocking back and forth in the post holes, or are you letting them float?

Schlatte · Post by **Schlatte** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:30 pm

I let it float. No problems until now

MrNovember · Post by **MrNovember** » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:57 pm

Mines floating. I thought it was designed that way for the trem?

coldbrightsunlight · Post by **coldbrightsunlight** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 11:45 am

Let it float, that's how those trems are meant to work.

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