Sure, but as long as you don't go below the 5th fret, you can set it up as a baritone instead and gain a lot of both flexibility and playability that way. A baritone is doing exactly that: sitting right between bass and guitar - an E-to-E six-string bass however is a lot more on the bassy side of things.donkey tugger wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2023 3:03 pmLiker a bass as you say here, but also chords stuff from the middle of the neck up sounds completely different to a normal guitar (obviously given the thickness of the strings!) I tend to do quite a lot of stuff where it sits between bass and guitar in it's own 'space', or indeed use it instead of a guitar for stuff like this;GaryG wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2023 2:56 pmcurrently playing regular open chords all the way down there, sounds like a folk gig in hell...
I don't have a bass (never got on with the spacing, dodgy wrist) so it's fun for me just to play bass stuff down there without having to think too much. I did once have a short scale bass (30" too I think) with thicker strings but that was definitely a lot flabbier than this sub-zero vi which is remarkably buzz-free.
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And if you really need to play chords that low, four strings are plenty to drown everything else.
