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fishtankdork wrote:Traditional bass is 2 octaves lower than a guitar, bass vi is 1 octave lower than a guitar. That being said find a overdrive or fuzz with a mix knob for sizzle. I play my bass vi on guitar amps and bass amps depending on what sound I'm going for. Currently I'm using it for low end in a project so I'm running it through an ampeq head and 4x10 cab

Yeah, I almost did a face-palm, but then didn't bother.

DarkAxel wrote: literally just finished trying the Squier BAss VI at work throught the new Traynor DynaBlock or whatever it's called and a bunch of cabs. Prefered the 4x10 and I'm usually a 15s man. 12s sound good too, but I was surprised by the 10s which I usually don't enjoy too much..

I'm new to the Squier Bass VI and have a 4X12 (guitar) cab and a 1X15 monitor. I'm finding that I like the Bass VI better through the 1X15. I, also, like it better without the strangle. I can't get it to make guitar-type sounds that I'm really happy with. I prefer a guitar for that. Go figure. The Bass VI sounds better as a six-string bass, to me.

I was always under the impression my upright bass was two octave lower. Not sure how that requires a face palm. I started on upright bass about twenty years ago before messing with guitars. Guitars always seemed a lot higher than one octave too me. Plus I'm pretty sure my bass vi isn't as low as my upright.

fishtankdork wrote:I was always under the impression my upright bass was two octave lower. Not sure how that requires a face palm. I started on upright bass about twenty years ago before messing with guitars. Guitars always seemed a lot higher than one octave too me. Plus I'm pretty sure my bass vi isn't as low as my upright.

Timbre and scale length play into that heavily. The deeper, woody tone of the upright makes it sound lower. Both are tuned to the same E

Yep, the thing is that uprights create sub-bass harmonic frequencies that make it seem super low Infrabass i think it's called?

it's why amplifying an upright can be a problem without a hi-pass filter applied before the amp - those freqs can blow speakers easily...

I always tuned my double bass to C D G A
An octave below the cello.