Yup, it's a Model One, but not so old.
Sounds just huge and thick, but suprisingly useable, I expected much more mud, but I really dig it.
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EB0 pickup on Rickenbacker?
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Yup, it's a Model One, but not so old.
Sounds just huge and thick, but suprisingly useable, I expected much more mud, but I really dig it.
Dont do it. Your Rick is an investment. You do irriversable mods to it, you WILL lose money.
Buy one of these and mod the hell out of it, you'll have a great player, and wont lose anything.
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Buy one of these and mod the hell out of it, you'll have a great player, and wont lose anything.
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Truth. If you're not modding a vintage or limited-edition one, there's no reason not to drop in a mudbucker - especially because the larger hole could easily be covered by a stock pickguard. Rics are just assembly-line instruments, nothing any more special about them than a P-Bass. Plus mudbuckers rule.
LOL.
I used my '67 EB-0 on a gig recently and another bassist that was there (who couldn't see what kind of bass I had from where he was) remarked at how good my Fender Jazz sounded especially when I soloed the bridge pup. HAH. It's all in the fingers, man.
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I modded the hell out of my two '73 Ricks. I didn't lose any money, because I have no plans on selling them. I've had both of those basses since '73-'76.
If you are buying an instrument as some kind of investment, don't play it. But nothing made after the 70s or 80s will ever be worth much.
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That's a good point. I ran mine along with a '76 Hi-A pickup at the bridge. I also rewound the EB-0 pickup to 12K to get a clearer tone from it. The stock pickup will dominate because of its high impedance.
This is another good point. It might. My action raised slightly after the mod. The newer Ricks have the pickup farther away from the neck, so that will help. Some also have a large rout there already.
Still, I got a very cool tone from the bass.
A better bet would be to have the neck pickup rewound. Some of the newer pickups were wound pretty hot, and then they went back to the vintage winding. Mine had toasters, and they weren't very bassy, and were on the quiet side.
OK. Was it a fretless too 'cause he said he used a fretless Ric on "Johnny Blade" (or a part of it)? Never seen him playing a Ric on stage except that famous ex-Hughes fireglo 4001 on "Never Say Die" livevideo and the clip they did when Dave Walker was in the band (15 minutes in 1977
).Well guys...I went ahead with it. I must say the bass sounds and looks so much better with the EB0 pickup (to me anyway 
). And aside from the resale value, there really isn't a down side. I'll try to get some pics up of it later
). And aside from the resale value, there really isn't a down side. I'll try to get some pics up of it later
Do you play bass for the joy, or do you care about having impressive gear and fret over how much you can sell your current stuff to buy something else?
I want to put a Bart Ric bridge pickup in a fretless P/J bass build (instead of a J pickup) because I'd like the best of 2 worlds also. I get it and I am very interested in how your mod will sound.
Dave
Dave
Well guys...I went ahead with it. I must say the bass sounds and looks so much better with the EB0 pickup (to me anyway
Sweet. Let's see them pics!
