Just in at the House of Guitars. Rickenbacker really went all out! https://youtu.be/QFRU0Fg6duc?si=Uws2d0o1a0QKB5_R
That is a beauty.
Love that in jetglo.
Too bad he doesn't know how to pronounce Rickenbacker. :mrgreen:
It's a beauty. Jetglo is the best color IMHO for a 4005.
The 4005 is akin to seeing a drop-dead gorgeous woman and then she speaks with a squeaky girlie voice. Take away the looks and that sound is the essence of unremarkable.
Ha! Your not wrong. I have always found them to be shall we say "transparent " sounding. Doesn't make me want one any less.
Good looking bass. Something is weird with the pickguard. Maybe just that it doesn't have the extra pickguard on top. I could use that on Tommy Can You Hear Me. ;)
Quote from: uwe on August 13, 2024, 07:13:55 AM
The 4005 is akin to seeing a drop-dead gorgeous woman and then she speaks with a squeaky girlie voice. Take away the looks and that sound is the essence of unremarkable.
Nailed it.
Not in my 38 years of experience.
There is something unusual that happens when you take smaller pickups on a bass and move them to the extremes like on a 4005. The mid scoop of a Jazz Bass becomes a more weird, mids-y comb filtered sound.
Time to break out the Humbrol model aircraft paints and get busy!
(https://www.talkbass.com/media/mani.3234/full?d=1456843722)
I've got one myself, a 1984 one I think. Of course it looks great and is well-made and sturdy as well. Good playability too. But ... I've never been to a session where anybody said: "Wow, that bass sounds good!" (Something that happens with any Ric 4001/4003 and if you have the grubbiest and deadest strings on it.) It's the only bass where I sometimes catch myself thinking: "This bass would probably sound real good if you dropped a Fender split-coil smack-dab in the middle of it." :-X
Heresy I know, but the flesh is weak. I have refrained from doing so so far.
"Humbrol", ;D, man it's been half a century since I read that!