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Vintage Modified Bass VI - 3-Color Sunburst

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Vintage Modified Bass VI - 3-Color Sunburst
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Squier brings you the welcome return of a long-vanished Fender classic in the deeply satisfying form of the Vintage Modified Bass VI six-string bass. The original model of 1961-1975 has provided distinctively voiced low end for everyone from the Beatles to the Black Keys, Cream to the Cure, and many others.

The Vintage Modified Bass VI delivers authentically vintage-style look and tone, with a few modern touches such as a comfortable modern C neck profile and 9.5 fingerboard radius (the originals were 7.25), and three custom Jaguar single-coil pickups with notched claw shielding rings (reverse-wound/reverse-polarity middle pickup).

Other features include the model's classic 30 scale (standard tuning one octave lower than a guitar), maple neck, bound rosewood fingerboard with 21 medium jumbo frets and pearloid block inlays, four two-position slider switches (on/off switch for each pickup and one bass-cut strangle tone circuit switch), tortoiseshell pickguard (three-ply white-black-white on Black model), two black plastic control knobs (master volume, master tone), and vintage-style six-saddle bridge with non-locking floating vibrato. Available in Black, Olympic White and Three-color Sunburst.

Body
Body Material: Basswood
Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
Body Shape: Other

Neck
Neck Material: Maple
Neck Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
Neck Shape: Modern "C"
Scale Length: 30" (762 mm)
Fingerboard: Rosewood
Fingerboard Radius: 9.5" (241 mm)
Number of Frets: 21
Fret Size: Medium Jumbo
String Nut: Synthetic Bone
Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
Position Inlays: Pearloid Block
Neck Plate: 4-Bolt Squier

Electronics
Bridge Pickup: Custom Single-Coil Jaguar with Claw
Middle Pickup: Custom Single-Coil Jaguar Reverse-Wound/Reverse-Polarity with Claw
Neck Pickup: Custom Single-Coil Jaguar with Claw
Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
Pickup Switching: 3-On/Off Slide Switches (One for Each Pickup)
Pickup Configuration: SSS
Special Electronics: 2-Position Slide Switch for Bass-Cut "Strangle" Circuit

Hardware
Bridge: 6-Saddle Vintage-Style with Non-Locking Floating Vibrato
Hardware Finish: Chrome
Tuning Machines: Vintage-Style
Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
Control Knobs: Black Plastic

Miscellaneous
Strings: NPS, .025 to .095 Tuned E to E (1 Octave Down)
Unique Features: White Bound Fingerboard with White Pearloid Block Position Inlays, Single Wing String Tree

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This bass sounds unlike anything I have played. I have always loved the Bass VI because of The Beatles, Rick Danko, and Jack Bruce. When this came out I had to own it and ordered it the day it became available. It took roughly 6-7 months for it to come it. It has so many tones it is like a bass and guitar in one. It is still difficult to get used to playing it as I usually play 4 string Fender Basses. The only real issue with the bass for me out of the box is the strings. I would put flats on it as the rounds are way wayyy too buzzy for me.
Posted by anonymous on Sep 15, 2014
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