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Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: tmoney61092 on March 31, 2010, 08:15:40 PM

i've been looking at these a lot lately and wouldn't mind having one, but i was just wondering if anyone could fill me in on what the controls are and what kind of pickups they use because they are very odd looking
 
~Taylor

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: bassfingers on April 01, 2010, 04:44:25 PM

It might be worth an e-mail to Brian at The Low End
 
 http://www.thelowend.net/thelowend/contact.html (http://www.thelowend.net/thelowend/contact.html)
 
He's had a couple in the past and might be able to help.

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: pace on April 02, 2010, 10:33:37 AM

forum member Todd Harris has a couple of VC's... hopefully he'll chime in....

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: hydrargyrum on April 02, 2010, 12:22:12 PM

I love their aesthetics, and will own one of their guitars as soon as I get around to winning the lottery.  I've also always been curious regarding the electronics.

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: edwin on April 02, 2010, 01:27:45 PM

I love Steve Swallow's Citron bass, but that's probably not what you have in mind. His has EMG electronics and pickups.

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: keith_h on April 02, 2010, 02:04:52 PM

The one I owned way back when had passive electronics in a Volume/Volume/Tone/Tone configuration. As I recall they wrapped their own pickups at the time but my memory is fuzzy in that regard.
 
Keith

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: dfung60 on April 03, 2010, 03:18:24 PM

You mean like this?  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/78398.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/78399.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/78400.jpg)
  This is a cool old bass.  The pickups are V-C customs, not like anything else out there.  The electronics are not unusual - two volumes, two tones, pickup selector.  This bass doesn't have the orignal knobs which were really cool brass knobs that looked like the ball on a barbershop pole.  The woodwork on these old instruments is fantastic.  Joe Veillette's current stuff isn't quite as flashy as these old ones, but absolutely super too.  This one is bolt-on, but since Joe doesn't do anything the easy way, it has only one bolt!    
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/78401.jpg)
  David Fung

Title: Veillette citron bass
Post by: tmoney61092 on April 08, 2010, 06:10:28 PM

sorry guys, my email was down so didn't get any of these messages, thats what i was talking about David! i really want to try and get an 8 string whenever i get some money
 
~Taylor