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Bon Hoga wrote:

Lebowsky wrote:I'd also be interested to know what gauges you guys are using, especially people who also play 4-ers. I was thinking something like 100-76-56-44-36-26 to be able to do switch between E and drop D

.26 and .36 will be too heavy, the rest seems ok. My set is .20 .30. .45 .60 .80 .105. I tune to drop D.

thanks man, and I just clicked on your link, good stuff!

Lebowsky wrote:

Bon Hoga wrote:

Lebowsky wrote:I'd also be interested to know what gauges you guys are using, especially people who also play 4-ers. I was thinking something like 100-76-56-44-36-26 to be able to do switch between E and drop D

.26 and .36 will be too heavy, the rest seems ok. My set is .20 .30. .45 .60 .80 .105. I tune to drop D.

thanks man, and I just clicked on your link, good stuff!

I feel like I'm not suffering from this muddy power chord problem y'all are talking about. Maybe I just like the way it sounds...

Dat acoustic

WHK what amp are you using? What pickups do you generally use?

WeHuntKings wrote:I feel like I'm not suffering from this muddy power chord problem y'all are talking about. Maybe I just like the way it sounds...

Same. I'm in neck+bridge 90% of the time though. Round La Bellas.

Yep same. I should admit that I don't use the low E string that much and that may be it.

You should tune it to A or B. Mines in B right now and I can play power chords on the neck pickup all day and its not muddy.

Playing cleanly and getting a good signal chain works best, you lose the low E then it's just a baritone guitar.. I like drop D on a bass VI, it lets you keep a nice drone in A and D going that you can play under and over and through.

Yeah, I honestly might just get a baritone.

neonblack wrote:You should tune it to A or B. Mines in B right now and I can play power chords on the neck pickup all day and its not muddy.

Does tuning to A or B make intonation any easier?

When I first set mine up everything was fine. I decided to straighten the neck out some, and now I can't get the E to intonate.

Blackened Soul wrote:

That and a cello and we'd rule the Icelands...

Blackened Soul wrote:

Tell me. Tell me everything.

Bon Hoga wrote:

Blackened Soul wrote:

Tell me. Tell me everything.

everything?

well...

It's a cort bass I got on ebay for like $175 with a case
it's a short scale bass
I tuned it ADGC for a little bit


I then attempted to make it into an 8 string, I drilled some holes in it and tried to make that work..


problem was intonation, I don't think it is really possible to correct that unless you do something major to the bridge..


so off came the extra tuners, and I put shoe laces in the hones and tried a set of labella classical bass guitar stings, they sounded great but they did not like to re retuned to different tunings which is a important thing to me.

about a week ago I decided to pull out the pickup because it has always been flakey so I pulled it out and put in a new saddle which is wedged in very tightly, I don't think it can come out without something breaking and the no pickup and that made the bass sound a lot better once strung up again with earthwoods, but the lows for just being a bass weren't as good as my other acoustic bass so I thought fuck! I'll string it bass VI and so I put two tuners back on and just filed some more slots in the bridge and nut, it's not pretty but [on the other hand as a 6 the E sounds a bit better than it did as a 4]

Right now I have a seymour duncan woody pickup in it and I love the sound, lovely through a rat so the last plan is to get a humbucking [I no wan' hum] and put a mini jack on the cord so I can plug it into the bass's internal preamp/eq

that's.... oh and I put a plastic siamese twin skeletonplastic cameo on the headstock...

that's everything..

Brilliant! Now I want an acoustic VI!!