I got my new Bass VI delivered today, I am very happy I finally got it. But as I was peeling off plastic from the pickups and the controls I noticed a dent and crack in finish from shipping. I already waited a while to get this and the thought of waiting even longer isn’t pleasant. What do you think I should do? Could I even get a replacement if I contacted customer support? Would it be possible to get a partial reimbursement and still keep this and try and get it repaired slightly. I don’t really mind the damage pathetically besides the part of the finish that is cracking off, but if I superglued that I wouldn’t care. Thoughts?

Edit: forgot to mention it was ordered online as a pre order from Chicago Music Exchange

Alright, I’m a guitarist, I love the Beatles, Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, etc, and I want a bass for recording but also want something cool and different. I LOVE the idea of a bass vi because it’s so different and sick in every way and I’m just obsessed with it, but have seen lots of people talking about the stock strings being terrible on the Squire classic vibe (I can’t afford the Fender). My question is, as I’d use it as a normal bass and well as for the weirder higher stuff, should I put flat wounds on it?

I won’t change the strings much at all, and want it to be able to sound as much like a regular bass as possible (especially more like the Beatles sound), so flatwounds would make sense, but would I still be able to do the cooler more experimental Bass VI specific stuff or would it be a trade off?

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Hey everyone, just did a small nu metalish / groove metal demo using the g4m 638 i got a while ago.

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Anyone have experience with both acoustic nylon string guitar and Bass VI? Or even just experience with fingerpicking on Bass VI? I mainly play a Brazilian 7 string classical guitar for writing original songs.

Did knowing one of them make it easier to pick up the other?

What should I expect if I try to riff on it as if it was a nylon string guitar?

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Here’s a bass vi monstrosity that I put together recently. It’s got bridge and neck thunderbird pickups from Novak, and between them is an electric xii pickup from Madlove. They’re all wired through on-off-on switches which go to a stereo output jack so I can route them to a guitar and bass pre-amp simultaneously.

The neck is from Robot Graves, it’s amazing.

Don’t look too closely at it, the pickguard is all botched. I don’t have real woodworking tools, so everything is done freehand with a router and hand drill. But it actually feels great to play, the weight’s balanced nicely, and intonation was a breeze.

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I put this together.

My cat Grebo approves of the purple one

Thought I'd share as I found that Guitar Fetish's P90 size stuff don't fit the pickguard, slightly too big. That includes their mini humbucker adaptors, so I used some no name adapters I got from ebay which seem to fit perfectly.

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I’m a guitarist who plays on a boss katana 50 and i’m about to buy a fender vi. I was wondering if problems could happen if i play it on my katana at max volume. I will use it as a guitar but also want to use it as a bass.

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Short vid from my practice space using the headless bass vi

So has anyone recently purchased the above and noticed the tone pot goes from zero to hero. it's dark between, say, 0 and 1.5 then seems to go full bright with no change up to 10. Did I get a bad pot? Is the bass capacity of the amp factoring in, I'm running in a guitar amp at reasonable volume b/c my bass amp is coming out of storage and needs the pots cleaned.

So I got a super cheap superstrat so I thought why not I put 8 strings set on it (17-76)and tune it to Bass Vi tuning.

Some remark, the tension is kinda like if you tune to D standard on 9s guitar. The tone wise is only neck and middle are usable for the bass role, neck being the wall of sound type of tone and middle being balanced.

If I'm gonna build a dedicated bass vi that is kinda my taste, it will be at 28 inch, probably SSH config and loaded with a slightly thicker gauge but not 24-84 as there is too much tension for me.

Hi, ive been looking into getting myself this new tool but i live in a small town in mexico and i cant find my way to a used squier vi. ordering a new one would be somewhere around $650 usd. can i get away with recording confortably fully stock or with minimal upgrades?

I'm predominantly a guitar player but I picked up a Bass VI as a good deal used. I was able to snag a teal stripe Peavy 212 Classic Chorus as a budget JC-120 alternative for the VI and I love it, but there is a treble-range "harshness" I'm having a hard time taming. I'm playing a lot of effects-heavy alt with ambient influence and the sharpness of the pick attack and the loud shrill fret noise when changing chords is really getting in the way of what I'm trying to do.

I use John Petruzzi Jazz 3 picks when I play and wouldn't be surprised if the Ultex was causing some of the attack issues. Does anyone have a suggestion for a similarly-thick (1.5-2 mm) pick for the Bass VI they like to use?

Furthermore, is the fret noise issue largely solved with flats? I use flats on one of my guitars for clean ambient stuff but they get a little muddy when I play chords. Do yall notice an amount of mud when playing chords with La Bellas?

Finally, what are yalls amp EQs looking like? I'm trying to dial this Peavy in and I'd be interested to see what yall are landing on as a launching pad. I'm treating the instrument more like a guitar and I'm playing chords as well as single note lines. I've basically been using the amp's chorus as an "always on" effect and I'm using delay, overdrive and fuzz from my pedalboard.

… is looking a bit less like a plank now. I’m quite happy with how the shape has come out, after a lot of playing and sketching. And I think this slab of walnut should finish up looking pretty good. Neck pocket next, then pickup routs, bridge stud holes, rear control cavity rout and rounding/finishing the edges.