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06-10-2011, 12:00 PM
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I searched Ric's website, but couldn't find anything |
06-10-2011, 12:03 PM
| | | | That's a Rickenbacker 3000 model - they made them in the 80's. |
06-10-2011, 12:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Bozeman, Montana | | | I've never been a fan of Ric's until I saw that one! |
06-10-2011, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by lazerbrains  That's a Rickenbacker 3000 model - they made them in the 80's. | This. Super rare but super cool.
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06-10-2011, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by lazerbrains That's a Rickenbacker 3000 model - they made them in the 80's. | And the 70s.
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06-10-2011, 12:45 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | i've owned a couple of them in the past (and set up and played a bunch of them when i worked at a music store that was a ric dealer). i never really cared that much for them (mostly in the way that they look), but her's does sound great in that, and another live youtube video. |
06-10-2011, 12:50 PM
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06-10-2011, 12:52 PM
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06-10-2011, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Sifl I've never been a fan of Ric's until I saw that one! | Pick one up and play it and you'll probably change your mind. The 3000 model bass is cheaply made, poor sounding, and amazingly heavy for the size instrument it is. I've had the opportunity to buy several of these over the years, and never considered owning one. Not at any price. |
06-10-2011, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Sifl
What Ric model is she playing? The Gateway District
I searched Ric's website, but couldn't find anything | In that vid? She's not.
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06-10-2011, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by lazerbrains That's a Rickenbacker 3000 model - they made them in the 80's. | They made the 3000 and the 3001 in the 1970s ...
they made 2000 series basses in the 80s and 90s with the same body shape but 2 pickups. |
06-10-2011, 02:47 PM
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06-10-2011, 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Diogenes In that vid? She's not. | wut? |
06-10-2011, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Atlanta GA | | | Well, I have a 1978 3001 (long scale version of the 3000) and it is a fantastic bass. Yes, it's heavy but it is a well constructed, solid bass with tone for days. An angry p-bass tone with enough signature Rick clank. Out of all my Rickenbackers including a1974 4001, and a 2003 4003 it's the go to one.
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06-10-2011, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Sifl wut? | The video appeared to have been recorded to a canned rendition of their song... it wasn't recorded "live" so she wasn't actually playing. Sorry... just the literal dweeb in me making an appearance.  
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06-10-2011, 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Diogenes The video appeared to have been recorded to a canned rendition of their song... it wasn't recorded "live" so she wasn't actually playing. Sorry... just the literal dweeb in me making an appearance. | That's an important point, considering the likelihood that the bass one hears in that video probably ISN'T that Rickenbacker. |
06-10-2011, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by smcd That's an important point, considering the likelihood that the bass one hears in that video probably ISN'T that Rickenbacker. | i dunno. i checked out some of their live videos and she pretty much had the same tone so i think the bass used on the recording was the one in the video. |
06-10-2011, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Diogenes The video appeared to have been recorded to a canned rendition of their song... it wasn't recorded "live" so she wasn't actually playing. Sorry... just the literal dweeb in me making an appearance. | Ah, I get ya! Yeah, you can tell she was "acting," but just so there's no confusion, she does actually play bass and sing in that band.
And I wasn't concerned with the tone, just what model bass she was using. But you guys are right; most of the time the bass used in studio is not the one used live.
A bit of trivia if any of you care: the male guitar player is one of my bass heroes. His name is Nate Gangelhoff and plays in Banner Pilot and records with Off With Their Heads. I really love his bass tone in those bands. |
06-11-2011, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted by smcd Pick one up and play it and you'll probably change your mind. The 3000 model bass is cheaply made, poor sounding, and amazingly heavy for the size instrument it is. I've had the opportunity to buy several of these over the years, and never considered owning one. Not at any price. | Sorry, have to disagree. I love my 3000. It is on the heavy side, but i'm a pretty big guy so i can handle it. It is definitely not cheaply made - it has the same build quality as other Ricks, in a short-scale, bolt-on package. It's a lot of fun to get the Rick sound and feel on a shorty. It has a great snarling rock tone, as you can hear on the video up top (which IMO is the bass in question). I've used it for jazz and a lot of other genres as well, so it's versatile, at least in my hands. So -- to each his own! -- a matter of taste. |
06-11-2011, 11:21 PM
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