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BC Rich MEGATHREAD
- Thread starter Ripper
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Just a heads up - I'm thinning the herd and this one needs a good home.
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/feeler-bc-rich-st.1108119/
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/feeler-bc-rich-st.1108119/
Hailing,
I got a question and I hope you might help me. I used to play bass (something like 10 years ago) and for last decade I can't say I am loyal to the my bass. I am planning to make a return. Because of where I work I have to buy it from a 'national' online store so I got no chance to try the guitar.
I found new BC Rich Virgo Vintage Celtic ( Invalid Link Removed ) bass for 360 USD. I never played a BCR before so I got no idea except what I heard about BCR basses in general from web especially neck dive problem. What I plan is to play and practice (hard rock and metal but also some blues and jazz )at my office or home in my free time
I got a motorcycle accident and still got some little problems with my elbows (luckily docs said i will be ok within time) so I am interested with 'easy to use keyboard and neck'.
here is the questions;
that bass also has quite serious neck dive problem or it is better? I heard newer models got less neck dive
Does it have challenging neck or easier to use one?
Thanks for reading
I got a question and I hope you might help me. I used to play bass (something like 10 years ago) and for last decade I can't say I am loyal to the my bass. I am planning to make a return. Because of where I work I have to buy it from a 'national' online store so I got no chance to try the guitar.
I found new BC Rich Virgo Vintage Celtic ( Invalid Link Removed ) bass for 360 USD. I never played a BCR before so I got no idea except what I heard about BCR basses in general from web especially neck dive problem. What I plan is to play and practice (hard rock and metal but also some blues and jazz )at my office or home in my free time
I got a motorcycle accident and still got some little problems with my elbows (luckily docs said i will be ok within time) so I am interested with 'easy to use keyboard and neck'.
here is the questions;
that bass also has quite serious neck dive problem or it is better? I heard newer models got less neck dive
Does it have challenging neck or easier to use one?
Thanks for reading
Gotta get some pics of my Warlock - with trem, but needs a new electronics harness, gotta talk to da man.... 
Bass cover by Caney from Kanowit, Sarawak. Using my B.C. Rich Warlock Paolo Gregoletto Signature Bass 5 String upgrade with Seymour Duncan Passive Phase II Soapbar SSB-5 pickup through Hartke VXL Bass Attack Pre-Amp, Zoom B2.1u, DiMarzio cable and D'Addario string. Apologize for some mistake.
Thanks a lot, man! That's the exact one I have on sight.
Friend of mine has the only other one of these I've ever seen. His is NT, white, single Bart. I'd get it, I like these too. I don't know anything though. My gut says early 90s..
For some odd reason I'd always seen this bass as an 8 string, so last weekend I took the plunge (literally with a plunge router) and did the conversion. The first 8 string bass I ever played was a Bitch back in the early 80's, and I was really impressed by the BIG sound. To my knowledge BC Rich never did a Mockingbird 8 string bass, but this is how I imagined they'd do it. I used Hipshot Tuners all around, and a Schaller bridge. The combined string tension of the D'Addario string set is about 320lbs, which is right at the edge of what works for this neck. I'll check into the Kalium site to see what they have that might be a bit less tension, as well as SIT, who made the first set of strings I used on my custom Rickenbacker 8 string. Because that neck has two truss rods, it could take the higher tension of these strings (which are a bit beafier than the SIT strings), and probably more as the rods barely had any tension on them. This bass sounds really good, and I can't wait till Sunday's practice to see how it sounds with my band. Incidently, I relocated the rear strap button higher up on the rear of the bass, and it balances really well. In fact better than it did before.
