1973 Rickenbacker input questions

[jakethesheepy]

Oh sorry, I didn't see that. Yes, that amp you have is perfect for the neck pickup. But the Marshall stack is a hard requirement for the bridge pickup, anything else and it just won’t sound right...Another neat effect is when recording, if you run the two pickups through two separate channels, with two DI's right into the board. If you route one pickup hard right, the other hard left, you get a very velvety almost chorus like sound, due to the slight waveform phase delays caused by the mechanical differences of the strings as they vibrate over the two pickups. I highly recommend trying it....

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I’m sending this to my buddy that is recording/producing my pop punk band’s EP (don’t worry the rick isn’t wasted on me I’m trained, just like singing in a pop punk band and our bass player quit).

 

[Coolhandjjl]

I’m still not comfortable doing truss rod adjustments. There’s a local guitar shop in Raleigh that i take for all my work. I’m not very handy and I don’t have a beater bass to experiment with (other bass is a 5 string lakland skyline). But I trust them to do it right. Harry’s is the best.

MAKE SURE THEY KNOW ABOUT THE OLD RICKENBACKER HAIRPIN STYLE TRUSS RODS!!!!!!!!!

They adjust differently, and even professional techs have cracked necks trying to adjust them like traditional truss rods.

 

[farace]

Com I see wavy Grovers on there? If so, you need to check to make sure the covers are on tight. If they seem like they are starting to open up, you want to address it sooner rather than later; they're known as "exploding Grovers" for a reason--if the cover pops off, all the insides will come shooting out with all the force that a string under tension can muster, probably at the worst possible time (like a dark stage during a set). There are two ways to deal with it. The best way is to drill and tap for small screws. The other way is to re-stake the pins holding the covers on. I have the same tuners on my '83 and managed to restake the pins by lightly hammering the pointy end of a tiny Phillips screwdriver into them. They seem to be holding just fine. You can find detailed discussions on the Rick Resource Forum by searching there under "exploding Grovers."

And I second Coolhandjjl's suggestion that you make sure your guitar tech knows and understands old-style Ric hairpin truss rods. Even back in the day it wasn't as well known as you might hope, and it's been since '85 that Ric started using more conventional rods, so it's entirely possible that there's a whole generation of techs that may never have seen one. It never hurts to be sure.