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The Short-Scale Six-String Club Part 2- for the original six-string basses!

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MIJ-VI said:
Have you played flats on a 'VI yet?
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No but after hearing everyone else rave about them I am eager to try! I love flats in general, but for certain contexts I need roundwound-strung basses. I think it will be more useful to have a flatwound VI and a roundwound VI rather than both strung the same. And my Barracuda definitely does the roundwound sound better. Might as well make the Hellcat the flatwound beasty.
 
#782
lunarpollen said:
No but after hearing everyone else rave about them I am eager to try! I love flats in general, but for certain contexts I need roundwound-strung basses. I think it will be more useful to have a flatwound VI and a roundwound VI rather than both strung the same. And my Barracuda definitely does the roundwound sound better. Might as well make the Hellcat the flatwound beasty.
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Thanks to LaBella this will soon be a long overdue reality available to all 'Cat players.
 
#783
MIJ-VI said:
Thanks to LaBella this will soon be a long overdue reality available to all 'Cat players.
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I'm sure its mentioned somewhere in this thread but why dont the regular Labella VI flatwound strings fit the Schecter? They fit my Gretsch(and sound/feel fantastic).
And yeah, I have a flatwound 6 and a roundwound 6, its a good way to go.
 
#784
iamthebassman said:
I'm sure its mentioned somewhere in this thread but why dont the regular Labella VI flatwound strings fit the Schecter? They fit my Gretsch(and sound/feel fantastic).
And yeah, I have a flatwound 6 and a roundwound 6, its a good way to go.
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They are scaled for the Fender Bass VI which has extra length between the bridge and where the strings are anchored. The Hellcat VI only has a short distance between the bridge and the tailpiece, so the strings end up being too long and the thick part wraps around the tuning post, causing breakage.
 
#785
lunarpollen said:
They are scaled for the Fender Bass VI which has extra length between the bridge and where the strings are anchored. The Hellcat VI only has a short distance between the bridge and the tailpiece, so the strings end up being too long and the thick part wraps around the tuning post, causing breakage.
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Wouldn't this be true on the Gretsch?
 
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lunarpollen said:
They are scaled for the Fender Bass VI which has extra length between the bridge and where the strings are anchored. The Hellcat VI only has a short distance between the bridge and the tailpiece, so the strings end up being too long and the thick part wraps around the tuning post, causing breakage.
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Ah, ok, I knew they had separate bridge and tailpiece but didn't think about the distance between being less.
 
#789
lunarpollen said:
Not necessarily... A photo comparison of the two would be useful though...
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Here's my Gretsch:
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#792
There are a lot of pickups used both in regular guitars and basses. My Burns Barracuda uses Burns Tri Sonic pickups, exactly the same as the Tri Sonics used in Burns guitars. I also have a four-string with the same pickups, just with different chrome covers.

I believe the Fender Bass VI pickups are Jaguar pickups. Anyone else care to chime in about other pickup choices, Gibson-style humbuckers etc.?

If I'm not mistaken, your run of the mill bass pickups aren't really much different than normal guitar pickups. Pickups with polepieces might have different amounts of polepieces (for four-string basses, etc.) but other than that, they are the same breed of animal. Some pickups are custom built to accentuate or attenuate certain frequencies for specific purposes, but in general a pickup's a pickup!
 
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lunarpollen said:
There are a lot of pickups used both in regular guitars and basses. My Burns Barracuda uses Burns Tri Sonic pickups, exactly the same as the Tri Sonics used in Burns guitars. I also have a four-string with the same pickups, just with different chrome covers.

I believe the Fender Bass VI pickups are Jaguar pickups. Anyone else care to chime in about other pickup choices, Gibson-style humbuckers etc.?

If I'm not mistaken, your run of the mill bass pickups aren't really much different than normal guitar pickups. Pickups with polepieces might have different amounts of polepieces (for four-string basses, etc.) but other than that, they are the same breed of animal. Some pickups are custom built to accentuate or attenuate certain frequencies for specific purposes, but in general a pickup's a pickup!
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"In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass.[8] His Fender Precision Bass, introduced in 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. The Precision Bass (or "P-bass") evolved from a simple, uncontoured "slab" body design similar to that of a Telecaster with a single coil pickup, to a contoured body design with beveled edges for comfort and a single four-pole "single coil pickup." This "split pickup", introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups (Fender was marketing a four string solid body electric mandolin at the time)."

:D
 
#794
BassGuitarBoss said:
could i use regular guitar pickups in a bass vi
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As lunarpollen has stated, the (4 switch version introduced in 1962) Fender VI uses Jaguar guitar pickups.

The first version of the Fender VI (introduced in 1961) used Strat-like pickups. (There's some good photos of a beautiful white one a few pages back in this thread.)

In general, pickups which have a bright and open sound work best for short scale six string bass guitars. Pickups which are over-wound to be 'hot' do not. They sound too muddy.
 
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Finally got my Bassman into the shop today and re-capped it, re-tensioned the tube sockets, and replaced a speaker... Haven't played it a ton yet but I think it really improved the sound quite a bit...much more bottom and clearer mids... Could practically use it as a bass amp now!
 
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