Musicman666

the finish on this 90s stingray has seen better days but for some reason it plays better than ever.

any bands that actually push their own envelopes and develop artistically thus challenging their fan base with each new release need not worry ... ai is like the formulaic approach ...no innovation, it gets boring pretty fast.

yep ...i got that deal ... that fret kisser is such a great tool, i have used it a few times, only wish i had bought it years ago. The file is quality too.

...add hooky and severin while your at it... opening bars of israel and rock and a hard place ...less is more.

permission to add a certain mr tony levin to this list.

funniest part is the neck tension jibe ..

yeah ...personally i find my brain can't cope so well ...

ok ---i'm using 50 to 110 on rounds ..seems to work ok. i could give you the gauge on d dario chromes if u want?

i will check when i get home

i think you might need to increase the gauge ..half my basses are tuned to standard d and they don't sound muddy but i do use heavier strings ...regular gauge would probably be too loose and floppy.

i also have the musicman version with the wider neck that i got decades ago when the bass vi was truly a rare commodity ..its very capable of bass vi duties but it's achilles heel is that musicman used regular guitar tuners thus cutting itself off from being able to fit the superb heavy gauge fender bass vi e string even if you managed to track down as set in those days ..so you ended up having to use the specific ernie ball vi bass set of strings made for it which lacked a certain clarity on the low e that i can now thankfully get today from the vintera which of course is designed specifically for the fender bass vi set ...so now after acquiring my vintera i have relegated the musicman to baritone g to g duties which is another very interesting area to get into. I find within the bass vi format it's more about string choices than the bass itself and the area that sorts the men from the boys is that low e ...i am so fussy about low e string definition ...this is what ultimately made me veer away from the classic vibe ..it seemed that with the classic vibe it was all a bit of a kludge whereas with the vintera it just does it straight out of the box ...no shimming or third party bridges or particular strings needed ...ironically i did end up getting a stay trem for the vintera not because it ever needed one in the slightest but simply because my ocd wouldn't allow me not to, since i already had them on my avri jazz and jag .... in fact if the truth be told only the jag every really required one.

the strat is slightly larger but yes in the same territory ...i think the squire is faithful to the original bass vi in terms of neck width.

well it looks like the original bass vi has a thinner nut than a strat so presumably on that score alone you are not comfortable with the bass vi.

that does sound possibly like a badly cut nut ...i will measure mine and get back to you on that one.