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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Need help with 4003 saddles
« on: March 25, 2012, 07:07:34 AM »
Yes, I thought I was too, I've just adjusted my Jazz neck to dead straight and it sounds just like a 4001 
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Need help with 4003 saddles
« on: March 25, 2012, 04:33:19 AM »
Is that the reason why a Fender shouldn't be adjusted dead straight and a Ric should.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Need help with 4003 saddles
« on: March 24, 2012, 03:40:25 PM »Assuming the neck is dead straight (Rics unlike Fenders should be adjusted to zero relief), I'd deepen the saddle grooves.
If it's not straight, I'd force the thin-wall wrench on the nut and adjust the neck. Don't use too much force... this worked fine for me on a couple of Ric basses.
When the neck is dead straight, you might not need to lower the bridge saddles.
+1, I would deepen the saddles, you've plenty of up adjustment if needs be. Rics are the same as fenders, in the fact it's wood, maths and angles, these factors are not fashion conscious or brand dictated.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Cool Rics on eBay
« on: March 21, 2012, 02:20:18 AM »
Don't think I've seen one with Black Binding before.
He does have the complete Black plastic too inc Ric plates.
He does have the complete Black plastic too inc Ric plates.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Newer Ric necks
« on: March 19, 2012, 02:04:44 PM »
If you can't move the nut with an open wrench then there's a problem.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Newer Ric necks
« on: March 19, 2012, 10:53:42 AM »My problem with my new 4003 is the RIC-brand truss rod wrench I own won't fit the nuts properly because the truss rod cavity is too shallow and there isn't enough room to slide the driver over the nuts! Duh! Other than that, all is well.
Yes, that's a problem, it's a tool that's not really needed and when you see someone prizing up the nuts on a 4001 to get the tool actually on, well you get you're bass right out of there. I use an open ended spanner, job done.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Newer Ric necks
« on: March 19, 2012, 05:16:06 AM »
I think people have confused the low E output with incorrectly adjusted pole pieces, and I have read on a forum in UK where a guy had gone through many 4003 basses to get over his low E problem before purchase and then spreads a word on this ''common problem with Ric necks'' poor chap 
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I haven't come across this ''problem'' personally, as it's not a problem with new 4003's as the poles are adjustable, but on the RIHS I have had to move magnets to get an even output.
Problem is on a well set up neck and action, the E string is not in the radius of the other strings, it has to be set a little higher and most pups are set to a specific radius.
.I haven't come across this ''problem'' personally, as it's not a problem with new 4003's as the poles are adjustable, but on the RIHS I have had to move magnets to get an even output.
Problem is on a well set up neck and action, the E string is not in the radius of the other strings, it has to be set a little higher and most pups are set to a specific radius.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Newer Ric necks
« on: March 18, 2012, 02:30:03 PM »Mine had a very low output on the E string out of the box. It took 2 luthiers to finally sort it out after I had been trying for months. I have read on the Ric forum about this being quite a common problem on the newer ones.
Maybe I have a tin ear, but my e-string sounds fine to me. No dead spots that I can detect. Booms right out there.Are we talking, dead spots or badly adjusted pickup poles and What Ric forum thread.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: 4003S/8 horseshoe vs high gain
« on: March 06, 2012, 03:20:00 AM »
I wouldn't say they are totally different, but anyway, CS wired his bass up for stereo, whether he put in the cap too, no one seems to know.
Ilan, stereo is the way to getting closer to the sound, with or without the cap, his amp settings were so extreme, not sure it would make any difference. Personally I don't feel he had the cap.
Ilan, stereo is the way to getting closer to the sound, with or without the cap, his amp settings were so extreme, not sure it would make any difference. Personally I don't feel he had the cap.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: 4003S/8 horseshoe vs high gain
« on: March 05, 2012, 01:10:55 PM »
As standard, Chris's bass didn't have the cap fitted.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: facebook and the Ric Police
« on: February 23, 2012, 11:46:28 AM »
I think the fact that if you post on a forum regarding RIC, you may get a response from John, THAT!!, whatever the reply is worth a great deal indeed.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Rickenbacker production numbers
« on: February 18, 2012, 02:04:44 AM »"Roundabout"...
By Dec 73 they were up to serial number 7500
, the power of music.I begin to understand the 4x demand overnight in these guitars must have left the factory under some pressure, hence I presume the cutbacks in design on the 73 versions.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Rickenbacker production numbers
« on: February 14, 2012, 01:02:44 AM »
At the Ric Register you can get some idea of the guitars actually registered. My 72 was made in May and about the 470th, by Dec they had made nearly 1800 guitars interestingly they made almost only 4001's in 1972.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: '73 mapleglo checkerboard binding.
« on: February 13, 2012, 02:19:57 AM »Mark, I'm sure a truss rod tutorial will be helpful. That said, I understand why Scott sent it back. May have been 100% fixable, but he shouldn't have to pay anywhere near that for one with a bunch of issues that need to be addressed. I know I wouldn't.I thought the pictures in the auction said it all, the next step is only a decision.
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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: '73 mapleglo checkerboard binding.
« on: February 07, 2012, 02:54:35 PM »Is that to keep them from bending down again?I've done the very same with a few rods now, although I made a twin washer from some 4130 sheet. It stops the nuts chewing into the ally block and helps keep the thread ends straighter to the block, but this design will always bend, just a case of doing as above to get the rods back to normal and then going easy on them.