Recent content by David Sumeray

The only thing I find uncomfortable about the 4001/3 is the neck is a bit wide ( I'm used to Jazz basses) and the slightly lighter D and G strings feel a bit unnatural when I move my fingers from the E and A. It doesn't feel as smooth a transition as the usual medium gauge strings do. I don't...

It is true that Rickenbacker strings are 45-105 but that is only half the story. They aren't typical medium gauge because they have a slimmer A and D. They are 045 - 055 - 075 - 105 and they are made from Nickel. It took me a while to adapt to the gauge of the A and D, being more used to 65...

You’re probably right!

Squire changed his strings after every show and every recording. He could afford to!

Yeah, I got mine from Bax. It was set up and in tune.

The overall build of the Ric, the materials, the neck through, the bridge and the strings. Play a Ric acoustically and it sounds like a Rickenbacker. The pickups just amplify the acoustic tone but you have to have single coil pickups. The 4003 sounds like a tonally boosted Ric but with the...

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I’ve read the first edition. Just bought the second edition and will read it all again!

Here is my baby!

Me too...for what it's worth!

Nice one! I'm kicking myself even harder now!

My first Ric was a 1972 maple natural finish 4001 which I purchased in 1972. I wish I'd kept it! Just like I wish I'd kept my Fender Jazz with rosewood fingerboard and pearl blocks from around the same year. I'd have had two vintage beauties but always had a 'new bass' itch which needed...

You are probably right. I was just hoping that a consensus of opinion might make me more confident that I was doing the right thing by spending/not spending on the pedal.