Author Topic: Veillette citron bass (Read 108 times)

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

bassfingers · « **Reply #1 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

He's had a couple in the past and might be able to help.

pace · « **Reply #2 on:** April 02, 2010, 10:33:37 AM »

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

hydrargyrum · « **Reply #3 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.

edwin · « **Reply #4 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.

keith_h · « **Reply #5 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

dfung60 · « **Reply #6 on:** April 03, 2010, 03:18:24 PM »

You mean like this?

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!

David Fung

tmoney61092 · « **Reply #7 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