Musicman666

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.

42mm is about the nut width of bass vi as well as the jazzmaster and jag ...the jazz bass is 38mm! ...strat and les paul are about 43mm ... so sounds like the squire is faithful to the original design as is the vintera vi. Why were you fitting a shim ..action too high?

i was checking out the squires ...a couple or red flags being the potential intonation issues on the low e and some kind of acceptance that the neck pocket was a little open to neck swivel on the secondhand one i checked out ( maybe some would consider this a positive feature?) ...so i ended up paying about twice as much for a vinterra ...hard to point to any one particular thing other than to say the vintera just felt and played and sounded better ...why? i have no idea ...maybe im just imagining it since i didn't have both side by side to compare at the same time but it does seem to ooze quality...

playing and creating new music influenced by music that i already like and primarily just to please myself ...is this art? .. i have no idea but I'm doing it constantly. Do a lot of home recording. It definitely comes under the category of self expression but its expression back to myself... if i get paid or published for it then that's a bonus but that's not the prime reason. If i do a gig its for my own pleasure, definitely not for the money. If i was the last guy on earth i would still be noodling on a bass as well as all my other gear....don't crave an audience.

look mum no strings....

... it's like the bass is just a tool that you no longer need ..interesting concept.

so early that its not even peart on drums ...

i did try to trawl their post moving pictures 80s/90s catalogue not too long ago ...put on a few tracks and quite enjoyed them but never felt compelled to come back for another listen ..i might try putting their albums on the car jukebox instead to subliminally break through my mental block.

well i finally did get an instant response after the fourth attempt .. forums can be a useful place for constructive feedback.

yes rush will always be rush ...but my point was that for me they had lost their edge ..it was now rush minus the mojo.

i think rush at some point early eighties must have crossed paths with king crimson just long enough for the spirit to jump ship ... crimson were on fire early 80s.

they were in a good place at the end of the 70s but like many bands during that period felt the need to reinvent themselves to try and stay relevant and in many ways from an economic point of view they were correct to do so. Rush were a bit obsessed with the police and the similarities were there ...the shift was obvious. This did indeed keep them more acceptable to new audiences but somehow, hard to put a finger on it but for me their sound got diluted and homogenised with too many other influences ...that bit of rush that i initially latched onto ...that hard rock edge got mellowed out and caused me to lose interest ...it was the changing of the guard from one set of fans to another ...genesis was another band who trod a similar path ...the parallels are hard to ignore. Some fans stuck the course and no doubt will defend rush to the end ...i honestly wouldn't mind seeing them again in this new format but this time around it will be more to do with a change within myself than them.

i have dealings with the main three ... if pressed i would say the gallery is the best by just simply doing what they are supposed to do ...followed by direct and then bbros but i wont get into that one. Bass direct need some serious email etiquette tips ...like i know you guys are busy but reply to an email ffs, how hard can it be?