Did this a lot in another century! Live and recordings. Fender VI is a six string bass, tuned an octave lower than guitar. Shorter scale than 4 string bass. Flat wound strings. Use the middle and the neck pickup. Fender Showman. Pick and damp strings.
Doubled with P Bass and Showman with lots of low end.

Can also do the tic tac with a Fender Jazz Bass, flat wound, pick and damp strings.

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Isn't an upright bass an octave lower than a bass guitar?

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Peter den Hartogh-Fender Artist S10-Remington U12-Hilton Volume Pedal-Gibson BR4 lapsteel-Guya "Stringmaster" Copy-MusicMan112RP-Peavy Rage158- - My Animation College in South Africa

I think the old ones were tuned like a Fender VI, an octave lower than a guitar: E,A,DGBe. That would suit a 30-inch scale; the 27 inch scale would be good for the A tuning. Jussi says there were two models, a six-string bass and a baritone, but I don't know if they're reissuing the lower version. I think people have used various combinations, even restringing and tuning a Fender VI A-a.

The regular bass guitar is the same as the upright bass: an octave lower than the low four strings of a guitar. The "modern" five string bass usually adds a low B,, string, and the "modern" six-string, a very different animal from the Danelectro and Fender VI, also adds a high c string, so it's all fourths: B,,E,A,DGc.

[This message was edited by John Kavanagh on 08 February 2003 at 09:51 AM.]

He showed me the tic tac bass he played on Patsy Cline, Webb Pierce, and Loretta Lynn, etc....records it was a DanElectro played through a Standel I think. He also had a Fender VI (six string bass).

He also showed me his date book for the sessions he was doing one week in 1961, I think. He was going from a Roy Orbison to a Patsy Cline session in the same day. He made a Xerox copy of a few pages for me!

Cool Stuff..

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Tim Harr - Carter D-10 8 & 9 - Troy Cook Jr Band ~ Stardust Nashville Recording Artist

Do you need 6 strings?
For this effect, no.

In my case, I played Strat with big flat wounds for rhythm guitar when the Fender VI came out. I just had to try it, to see what I could get out of it.

One of the many things you could do was the click bass sound. For this style, you only need 4 strings.

I played some interesting lead guitar solo's with one of the first fuzztone effects on the little strings way up the neck. Fun, novelty, different sound. Hey, it wore off!

The sound was/is very different than a full scale P Bass. Something about the shorter scale and smaller gauges, made it easy.
click-clack. tic-tac. Man, those were some fun times!