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Ibanez Bottom Booster, and a Rusty Box

skullservant wrote:Ibanez Bottom Booster, and a Rusty Box

Yeah, I'm gonna need to get a Rusty Box. Although after playing your old Boxidizer at Danny's, I'm pretty in love with that too.

Im thinking of getting a nice power amp and pushing it with one of those and giving my bass amp to my wife to mess around with keys/synths.

Bass VI+synth husband and wife doom pop band? YES PLZ

neonblack wrote:

skullservant wrote:Ibanez Bottom Booster, and a Rusty Box

Yeah, I'm gonna need to get a Rusty Box. Although after playing your old Boxidizer at Danny's, I'm pretty in love with that too.

Im thinking of getting a nice power amp and pushing it with one of those and giving my bass amp to my wife to mess around with keys/synths.

Bass VI+synth husband and wife doom pop band? YES PLZ

I think we might be the same person... Im doing a really dark ambient project with a female friend with bass vi and synth and then a korg volca beats/iPad for drums. I was considering a rusty box and a power amp and the a tube mic preamp into e per channel of the power amp for synth with a three way pa cab for my rig

Is the volca beats actually a useable option for live use? I can't find a drummer to save my life and I need some beats to groove too.

Not to derail the thread too badly.

neonblack wrote:Is the volca beats actually a useable option for live use? I can't find a drummer to save my life and I need some beats to groove too.

Not to derail the thread too badly.

It could be? I wouldn't want to rely solely on it though unless you're playing pretty sparse music, which we are, but I still have another drum machine on the iPad and velocity pads on my controller just in case. That said, I've managed to make some pretty cool stuff using a looper so that I can play the beat however I want without having to rely on the fairly limited sequencer. You could do the same thing with some loops and a cheap sample pad, it just wouldn't be as compact/cheap/analog.

blindrabbit wrote:I tried out a Fender VI today. Cool tones, looked great, I could see myself having some fun with it. Only issue is that I'm pretty sure I lack skillz to make the most of one of these things. I'll have to give it another run through or two one future visit to the shop and see if I change my mind. Or maybe I'll try to practice more.

Dude, that's even more of a reason to get it! Skills grow and evolve with attempts, they stagnate when you don't do anything new. And after all, I think we on ILF could agree that the main reason to buy gear is cuz its fun, sooo.. do it

And omg that pedalboard <3 and that blue guitar what is thaaaat #guitarnoob #fendernoob
So nice.

I'm getting gassed up again after years, It feels good.

neonblack wrote:Bass VI+synth husband and wife doom pop band? YES PLZ

True romance.
I dream of it too

alexa. wrote: And omg that pedalboard <3 and that blue guitar what is thaaaat #guitarnoob #fendernoob
So nice.

Fender Jaguar Bottom Master. Unfortunately named, but so gorgeous. I want that one so bad. I will have one someday.

Got my flatwounds, my pickguard and my staytrem bridge+tremolo yesterday, but still no Bass VI. It's like throwing a bukkake party where the girl doesn't show up. Fun, but not ideal.

alexa. wrote:

blindrabbit wrote:I tried out a Fender VI today. Cool tones, looked great, I could see myself having some fun with it. Only issue is that I'm pretty sure I lack skillz to make the most of one of these things. I'll have to give it another run through or two one future visit to the shop and see if I change my mind. Or maybe I'll try to practice more.

Dude, that's even more of a reason to get it! Skills grow and evolve with attempts, they stagnate when you don't do anything new. And after all, I think we on ILF could agree that the main reason to buy gear is cuz its fun, sooo.. do it

Point taken. I'll keep it on the GAS list for now, see what unfolds.

blindrabbit wrote:

alexa. wrote:

blindrabbit wrote:I tried out a Fender VI today. Cool tones, looked great, I could see myself having some fun with it. Only issue is that I'm pretty sure I lack skillz to make the most of one of these things. I'll have to give it another run through or two one future visit to the shop and see if I change my mind. Or maybe I'll try to practice more.

Dude, that's even more of a reason to get it! Skills grow and evolve with attempts, they stagnate when you don't do anything new. And after all, I think we on ILF could agree that the main reason to buy gear is cuz its fun, sooo.. do it

Point taken. I'll keep it on the GAS list for now, see what unfolds.

I'd also like to make the point that I'd almost completely lost interest in playing bass lately and had only been playing synths/guitar outside of any band setting, and now I play pretty much nothing but VI. It makes me want to practice because it's such an interesting instrument to play.

Also, tried the Vi into an EHX Metal Muff tonight and it was surprisingly good? This pedal is surprisingly good on bass in general, but it made it pretty easy to get some tight chuggy stuff on a stock Squier VI. I'm definitely thinking Alumitones and a Staytrem are next. The Circle K strings were a huge improvement but it's still missing something in playability. I'm also going to put a piezo pickup and/or contact mic behind the bridge and put it on a separate switch so I can bring in some of those overtones when I want to/use it for Ebow as was suggested in another thread.

Ok, here it is. Forgive the cellphone pic, but the lighting sucks to use my dslr.


Pickups are Curtis Novak '61 bass VI pickups (which required routing for them to fit)
Stay trem bridge
mastery vibrato
with LaBella roundwounds

Sweeeeeet!

How are you liking those Novak Bass VI pickups, KNaB? I was looking at them myself. Does Novak make a set that doesn't require routing?

Also – Anyone using LaBella flatwounds on theirs? I'm curious to try a set on mine.

My '96'ish MIJ:

^ wow, beautiful...
The more I see Bass VIs, the more I find it's one of the most beautiful offset / bass / guitar / string instrument I ever saw...
I need to have one in my stable!!!!

I really like them. A whole world of difference! http://curtisnovak.com/pickups/bassvi.shtml