Hipshot Ric bridge

[rockinrayduke]

Anyone use it, and has anyone compared the brass bridge to the aluminum?

[Bert]

I have an aluminium and it sucks. It rattles and rolls whenever I hit strings.

[gearHed289]

Had a brass one and it was a boat anchor. Switched to aluminum. There is an issue with wobbly saddles with this one, but I still like it better than the stock bridge.

[ilan]

A friend of mine installed the brass model on a 70's Ric and it also had rattles and wobbly saddles.

[Hornisse]

I say go the Geddy Lee route. (pun intended) 

[rockinrayduke]

I don't to drill any holes in it that ain't already there.

[Hornisse]

Yeah, you'd have to rout an additional space for the Badass I bridge on the Ric as well.  Geddy got a badass tone on Farewell To Kings though.

[Dave W]

I'm surprised to hear that the Hipshots have this problem. Do they have any plans to improve them, or is this just something you have to deal with?

[Bert]

Is there a problem you want to fix rockinrayduke? There are many know fixes for the original Rickenbacker bridge. If you tell what your problem is we might be able to help you with the things you allready got at home.

[ilan]

No mod that I know of can enable palm-muting, and I palm-mute a lot when playing Fenders.

[rockinrayduke]

No palm muting, no individual string height or intonation. never been a fan of the Rickenbacker bridge.

[SeanS]

No extra visible holes here and who says you need to route?, extra holes for a cover plate are some thing that really gets me, just a dab of contact adhesive and it's there.

[ilan]

no individual string height or intonation

The OEM Rickenbacker bridge has many downsides (cumbersome intonation, no palm mute, tail lift, bridge contacts the base plate in only two small points) but you can definitely intonate individual strings, and assuming that the bridge should follow the curve of the fretboard, why would you need individual height adjustment?  

[Hornisse]

No extra visible holes here and who says you need to route?, extra holes for a cover plate are some thing that really gets me, just a dab of contact adhesive and it's there.

Very nice!  For some reason I thought the Badass would sit too high on the bass. (Kind of like with a Fender bass for instance)

[SeanS]

On the change over in 73, the whole bass changed ( well everything got bigger) and the fret board was another 1/8 higher off the body, so the Badass 1 was ok, but fit one to a pre 73 and it wouldn't work, it wouldn't go low enough, although why you would want to replace the gap tooth bridge anyway, unless it got broken that is.
        Other reasons for bad fitting or the need to sink the badass into the body would be perhaps the 73 74, 1/2 inch neck pup spaced 4001's which have been over strung and the body starts to bend in that routing, so needing a much lower bridge setting and even the originals don't go that low in these cases.