Bass VI Face Off featuring Squier & Fender Bass VI
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Thanks for the comparison. I’ve been considering the Vintera, because the Squire is a huge process to intonate properly. People are shimming the necks, installing new mastery bridges and trems, and upgrading the pickups. But that 3-4x Vintera price increase. This has given me enough pause to look into the Gretsch G5260T, which costs a bit more than the squire, but without the intonation issues, but still less than 1/2 price of the Vintera Bass VI
It took me a lot of time and adjustment to get the Squier sounding right. Whereas the Vintera was good out of the box. 🫤
Pretty sure that’s a single coil jazzmaster pickup, which is interesting since they’ve typically been voiced with jaguar single coils. I prefer the JM pick ups, but you can see how it would look odd with three JM pick ups.
19:23 sounds one of the cures song chorus part, the sound seems to match
An ebony fretboard would look amazing
This one has an ebony board… th-cam.com/video/3jouLBgt_Ks/w-d-xo.html
That’s quite a large guitar collection you got there!
It’s quite small now. th-cam.com/video/CsPoIoQaKJg/w-d-xo.html
Thanks, well done! interesting note: Vintera and Squier B-VI Jaguar pickups, when removed frm the body, look identical (w very close output specs). Body/neck timber make a big diff in sound imo. I hear high quality Alder in your Vintera demo & Basswood/poplar/etc in the Squier demo. Also wide range of "Maple" used in necks these days. These guitars have a problem w neck pocket cracks, so I'd lean heavily towards nicer quality wood. And a sturdy neck always sounds better on a bass imo.
Glad you found it useful! The Squier VM was a good budget guitar but it lacks the depth of sound that comes from the Fender Vintera II models. Also, the Squier took an awful lot of setup and swapping of the bridge to makes it a decent player.
Darren, was the term you were looking for “floor model”?
I purchased a preowned Squier Vintage Modified Bass Six in January 2019, less than 2 years before purchasing the fretless I mentioned in my earlier comment. My goal was to harness the Six way less as a guitar trying to be a bass or vice versa but as a bass with a tenor extension. It helps if you’re a classically-trained guitarist and purposely try to avoid playing with plectra. It speaks to me concerning my admiration of players like Victor Wooten who think clear outside the box while still adhering to what “bass players are supposed to do”. It was my bass of choice on *this* solo record.
If I had to modify it, it would include either winding the pickups tighter for a hotter output or swapping them out for a set that are readymade. I’ll willingly admit that the stock Jaguar pickups have a weak output.
th-cam.com/play/OLAK5uy_lsRuQxlK-ScZpQS3BElVdeD40gbPsVidw.html&si=PcyTafyTrlDHyyeO
This is a fantastic comparison, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
This was very helpful, thanks for making it :)
You're welcome - glad you found it useful!
Just to follow up further, I ended up going with a vintera ii -- used to take some of the sting off the price tag. I'm loving the instrument. Thanks again for helping me make the decision.
They really got it close to the original 60s instrument. Good choice!
Ay bro! Loving your videos, pretty informative! As a bass player/producer who wants to have a second instrument for some recording, would a bass VI do guitar bits or would you like be safer just getting a guitar?
It’s a weird instrument that leans more towards the bass than towards the guitar, so you’d probably best get a budget friendly guitar.
Here’s a track I improvised using a looper that illustrates the tonal capabilities of the bass vi and how it doesn’t sound like a guitar or a bass… 🙄 th-cam.com/video/jXAiyJvjK5M/w-d-xo.html
@@DarrenLockMusic just finished the song!sounds very good and I get what you said, really not made for full chords 😅
are you shure that jazzmaster pickup is a humbucker?
Not sure at all because it looks like a Jazzmaster pickup which is a flat, wide single coil. But when I bought one back in 2013, they were advertised as having a humbucker pickup at the bridge and when I looked up the specs for the video, it was described as a JZHB Humbucking pickup. So there you go...