Quick video on the new 4005

[godofthunder]

 Just in at the House of Guitars. Rickenbacker really went all out! https://youtu.be/QFRU0Fg6duc?si=Uws2d0o1a0QKB5_R

[morrow]

That is a beauty.

Love that in jetglo.

[Jeff Scott]

Too bad he doesn't know how to pronounce Rickenbacker. 

[ilan]

It's a beauty. Jetglo is the best color IMHO for a 4005.

[uwe]

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.

[godofthunder]

Ha! Your not wrong.  I have always found them to be shall we say "transparent " sounding.  Doesn't make me want one any less.

[gearHed289]

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. 

[ilan]

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.

[Jeff Scott]

Not in my 38 years of experience.

[Alanko]

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!

[uwe]

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." 

Heresy I know, but the flesh is weak. I have refrained from doing so so far.

"Humbrol",  , man it's been half a century since I read that!