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The Squier Vintage Modified Bass VI 6-string bass guitar in Olympic White is a recreation of the highly-desirable original Bass VI model of the ‘60s and ‘70s, but with a few modern touches to bring it bang up to date.
The Squier Vintage Modified Bass VI features a lightweight, offset Basswood body that is joined by a 30” scale Maple neck, which is topped by a 21-fret bound Rosewood fingerboard with pearloid block inlays. The neck and fingerboard differ slightly from the original model as they have a modern-C profile and 9.5” radius respectively. This extended scale allows the Bass VI to be tuned a full octave below a standard guitar, meaning that chords and phrases can be easily transferred to this instrument.
The body of the Squier Vintage Modified Bass VI is equipped with a set of custom-wound Jaguar single-coil pickups with notched “claw” shielding. As per the ‘60s original, four two-position slider switches are fitted – three on/off switches for each pickup and one bass-cut “strangle” tone switch. These are accompanied by master volume and tone controls, meaning that the tonal possibilities of the Bass VI are almost endless.
Finally, the Squier Bass VI 6-string bass guitar comes fitted with a vintage-style six saddle bridge, non-locking floating tremolo, a tortoiseshell pickguard and a set of vintage-style tuners.
The main features of the Squier Vintage Modified Bass VI 6-string bass guitar in Olympic White include:
Squier Squier VM Bass VI RW OW Olympic WhiteI bought the instrument hoping for an okay one, as Squiers usually are. I was pleasantly surprised this model had a perfect finish, clean binding, fretwork, a tightly fit neck, a precision cut pickguard and very responsive switches and potentiometers with no scratching or loose parts. The Bass VI sits very well in a lap and doesnt "neck-dive" from a guitar strap.
The tremolo is subtle and effective its a bit unstable when setting up, but I tightened it down a bit to stabilize and it works very well. The stock strings are okay for a guitar-like sound, but the low E string is a bit thin for E standard tuning. Buying replacement strings with a heavier low E string with the instrument is a good idea. The tail, bridge, nut tuners can take very heavy, almost bass-like strings without any problem.
The controls are intuitive, the three single-coils can give me anything from a punchy and bassy to a growly mid-and-treble sound, and the instrument works really great with both bass and guitar amplifiers, sounding especially good when going through distortion. Some string manufacturers can make strings that can tune up to a baritone A-A or even a downtuned guitar-like C-C, so the instrument can really work as both a guitar and a bass for those who like this short scale.
Of all the Bass VI-like instruments out there, this one is the most inexpensive - but it feels and plays like a professional one.
