UglyCasanova wrote:Disarm D'arcys video was the final nail in the coffin for me. Black Squier with dark tort, roundwound LaBellas and Staytrem bridge INCOMING!!!!!! *moonwalks across the walls*
And then you hear it through the same board and the Verellen. And you want to purchase a new amp.
I've also been browsing through the thread a bit and I'll just repost this so we can all drool a bit more:
I think I'm going to get the Squier version and make it look like this. I love that color. And I really want a bass vi with 2 lace alumitone humbuckers. And I just found out Warmoth makes a bass vi pick guard with whatever configuration you want. So now I just have to decide if I want neck+bridge or say fuck the bridge pickup and go neck+middle.
I just realized that that the Ibanez M80M is essentially an 8-string VI (or VIII in this case) since it's a 29.4" scale. Put some slightly bigger strings and tune down a half-step and you'll be at E. I like the idea of having higher notes for melodies and leads but I'm not really an Ibanez kinda guy. I also like the position of the humbucker being so close to the bridge to get more twang and clarity out of the lower notes. Tempting.
Sometime in the next week I will finally own a bass vi! Found one at the music store, before they had even put it out. I just mentioned to the guy that I wanted one and he went and got it out of the back. I played it for 15 minutes and put a deposit down. Its the black Squier version. Exactly what I was looking for. The pickguard was cracked so he knocked $20 off the price, so Im getting it for $275 total.
Im going to get a black pick guard and some new knobs to start, then eventually upgrade to a staytrem bridge. The one I played stayed in tune just fine, and the strings had already been changed to something heavier. The vibrato arm wasnt there, but he said he would get it before i finished paying.
Now I'm already thinking of getting that new Antigua baritone jazzy and setting it up as a VI for backup/different tones.
neonblack wrote:Sometime in the next week I will finally own a bass vi! Found one at the music store, before they had even put it out. I just mentioned to the guy that I wanted one and he went and got it out of the back. I played it for 15 minutes and put a deposit down. Its the black Squier version. Exactly what I was looking for. The pickguard was cracked so he knocked $20 off the price, so Im getting it for $275 total.
Im going to get a black pick guard and some new knobs to start, then eventually upgrade to a staytrem bridge. The one I played stayed in tune just fine, and the strings had already been changed to something heavier. The vibrato arm wasnt there, but he said he would get it before i finished paying.
Now I'm already thinking of getting that new Antigua baritone jazzy and setting it up as a VI for backup/different tones.
What made you decide to do the alumitone humbuckers over the singles? (I'm looking into both and curious)
I forgot I mentioned wanting alumitones. That's on the list.
I actually found out that they're exactly the same, its just that they make them in humbucker and single coil and whatever so it will fit your guitar. So unless you prefer the look of humbuckers, there's no real difference.
I'm just gonna go with single coils so I dont have to get a new guard.
neonblack wrote:Sometime in the next week I will finally own a bass vi!
Congratulations, man. I can't wait to see it. I've been on the fence, myself, whether to get a black VI, and put a tort pick guard on it, or a Squier baritone Jazzmaster. I'll probably end up with the baritone. I think it will go better with the Reaper 55's I just ordered. And, I feel my synth covers bass line pretty well.
While leaves shall fall, do branches intertwine, that we remain bound.
There's a VI about an hour south of me for $600, a nice sunburst of the newer reissues. Tempting, very tempting. I already have 2 (a hard-tail 6 string and a hard-tail 12-string) but I'd like one with a trem. I'm still deciding if I want to do the 8-string thing so I can have some higher register options as well when playing. My original VI has single coils and I was thinking that with the bridge humbucker (that looks like a P90), it would be cool to put a Bare Knuckle AlNiCo Warping or something and just make it a monster and use the other for clean/twang. Decisions, decisions. There will be a lot of me staring off into oblivion at dinner these next few nights thinking about me gear options.
Okay. I chose wide because I thought it was always cool to have the extra room for intonation even though my VI was intonating ok with the stock bridge.
I'm thinking you might be confused though. The wide version provides you with more room for intonation, not string spacing. I don't know if that helps or if I'm expressing myself clearly enough.
