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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Two Ricky 4005s in Germany.
« on: May 16, 2008, 07:09:50 AM »
Quote from: ilan on May 16, 2008, 05:40:40 AM
I wouldn't do that, Bert. If the reissue pickups are anything like the vintage SuperTron's (My Gretsch is a '64), they are great pickups. Thick, fat tone, very powerful (almost too much). I wouldn't change that pickup, it's perfect for the bass.

Nice Gretsch Ilan! And you saved me some money as I wont buy a G6072 now that I am not allowed to make it sound like a 4005 somehow. ;)

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Two Ricky 4005s in Germany.
« on: May 16, 2008, 03:21:12 AM »
I envy you guys. I would love to have the tone I hear on the Stone Roses DVD (which I bought especially for the 4005 sound). But I dont see me having this tone in one of my basses for some time to come. I am even thinking about getting a Gretsch 6072 and put toaster's in it. Both basses are maple. And what I see the neck pickup could be more or less at the same position as on a 4005.



(I'm not sure about relative sizes in this picture)

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: The Ric 4001 ...
« on: May 13, 2008, 12:47:25 PM »
Quote from: Chris P on May 13, 2008, 12:35:07 PM
Sounds nice!
Could you take a look at the microPOG at the completely new EHX page for me and tell me what you think about it?

What i've read it tracks even better than the big POG (and the big pog is allready much, much, much better than for instance an EBS octabass). It would be perfect if you just need an octaver. But your options to emulate 8 or 12 strings (or even organs) are a lot less. Especially the detune sliders are necesary (I think) to give an 8/12 string like sound. In real live octave strings aren't 100 % in tune also.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: The Ric 4001 ...
« on: May 13, 2008, 11:32:23 AM »
Quote from: Chris P on May 13, 2008, 11:18:52 AM
i read a very good review of a new small version of the EHX POG. Which one do you have, Bert?

The Big one. :) Simply the best octaver I tried (octave down). Very nice for making an 8 or 12 string out of a 4 string (with the 1 octave up and 2 octave up/detune sliders). And with a little echo behind it I dont need a church organ anymore also. It's a different concept than my previous EBS octabass. The POG just generates an octave down/up/2up signal out of the incoming signal. Even if you slide your plectrum over the strings to make jetplane sounds it works. And it tracks very wel also.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: The Ric 4001 ...
« on: May 13, 2008, 10:53:22 AM »
Quote from: uwe on May 13, 2008, 04:57:40 AM
Whenever I see the valiant, yet futile fight of the twin truss rods of my 4003S/8 string against ever increasing neck bow, I wish they would have mad THAT neck fatter. I had both truss rods exchanged a few years ago and both of them are already again at nearly the end of their range. All you can ever do is tighten them, no matter what the climate they never pull the neck straight enough to necessitate loosening them.

What a Pitty. I suppose you have tried strings with less tension? I recently read of enforcing necks with extra pieces of some carbon whatever material. VoxHumana in the Netherlands do this. Maybe others too.

Buying an EXH POG made my GASses for an 8string almost go away by the way.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Two Ricky 4005s in Germany.
« on: May 13, 2008, 08:05:49 AM »
Quote from: uwe on May 13, 2008, 05:05:51 AM
Soundwise, a P split coil in the middle would probably do wonders to the scooped sound of a 4005. Ooops, I never said that ...  :rolleyes:

I read somewhere (rickresource forum?) of someone who put an extra toaster in the middle en is quite happy with it.

Maybe its this one:


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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Rickenbacker photo thread
« on: May 12, 2008, 05:21:17 AM »
My current Ricks:








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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: The Ric 4001 ...
« on: May 11, 2008, 05:36:18 PM »
Quote from: Chris P on May 10, 2008, 05:36:07 PM
Welcome Bert. It's good to have more Dutch people here!

BTW: The Last Bass Outpost is 100% male... :(

Thanx Chris. 100 % male? Maybe this will change now. Chicks dig Ricks.  ;D

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Two Ricky 4005s in Germany.
« on: May 10, 2008, 05:44:43 PM »
Quote from: Chris P on May 10, 2008, 05:35:21 PM
Welcome Bert!

This first post is a quite old post when Rickenbacker belonged to 'other bass brands' here....

The mentioned 4005 is still on ebay. So posting about it still has "news" value. ;-) Someday this bass will be worth its price I think.

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: The Ric 4001 ...
« on: May 10, 2008, 05:29:12 PM »
Quote from: Barklessdog on May 09, 2008, 11:24:19 AM
My sons Ric, which has a chunky neck surprisingly.

Certain years have chunky necks. Which year is your son's Rick?

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Rickenbacker Basses / Re: Two Ricky 4005s in Germany.
« on: May 10, 2008, 05:16:49 PM »
Quote from: Chris P on February 08, 2008, 04:17:54 AM
http://cgi.ebay.de/1967-RICKENBACKER-4005-BASS_W0QQitemZ180036918114QQihZ008QQcategoryZ4713QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.de/Orig-Rickenbacker-Bass-Model-4005-Baujahr-1968-Case_W0QQitemZ270208982861QQihZ017QQcategoryZ87492QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The first one has been on Ebay forever almost. Most people on another Rick forum think that buying another is less expensive than buying and restoring this one.

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