He can also drop the bridge pickup down to balance it out, I usually set mine so it's farther away from the strings than the neck pickup but not always.
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Just got a rick, any suggestions?
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He can also drop the bridge pickup down to balance it out, I usually set mine so it's farther away from the strings than the neck pickup but not always.
Beautiful bass, for some reason, left handed basses always look cool to me. I had a white-black trim 4001 years ago, it became very yellowed after a while though but didn't bother me.
Very dumb thing to say. Moronic actually. It was a boomer who designed your bass, and boomers who made it famous. If you don't like people generalizing about your "generation" maybe you should show a little respect to those who came before you.
Want bottom out of a Ric? Try flat wounds. Listen to these with headphones, Rics have a very nice big bottom. This from a boomer
. Here's a couple of tunes by some boomers you've maybe heard of?
. Here's a couple of tunes by some boomers you've maybe heard of?
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I don't know why people think "Boomer" is an insult. It means I can tie my own shoes, read a book, get from point a to point b without a handheld device and I don't have to go to the internet to have someone tell me what to do every time I have a problem. Maybe it's just me, but I think that's a good thing.
Probably because it's almost always used in an insulting context.
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Can you imagine being too 'born between 1944 and 1964' to correctly identify a bass?
If I weren't GenX I'd be shaking my fist at you!!!!!!
I kinda want a Ric, maybe I'm just jealous.
I’m a little too lazy to check if anyone has already suggested, but the only mod (technically) I’ve done on my rick is just a thumb rest, that’s it. It’s helped me a lot just to put my thumb somewhere since it could be a bit tiring
I’ve taken the pickup cover off before but I’ve put it back on just for aesthetic purposes, I don’t really move my right hand around anymore just because of the thumb rest
I’ve had Roto 77’s before and currently have Chromes and I love the sound!
I’ve taken the pickup cover off before but I’ve put it back on just for aesthetic purposes, I don’t really move my right hand around anymore just because of the thumb rest
I’ve had Roto 77’s before and currently have Chromes and I love the sound!
I didn’t adjust or do a single thing to mine when I got it. It plays great through my VT bass pedal.
I'm 33... I'm a Millennial? I mean I am a multidimensional spiritual being having a physical experience in space time... but hey, what fun is the game if we're all on the same team, am I right?! Up top Boomers!
So glad to be on the other team of more experienced players, have fun playing with the kids in little league!
Wanna fight, zoom? Feeling lucky?
A 77-year-old United Kingdom man is being hailed a hero for the way he physically staved off an attempted mugging.
A 77-year-old United Kingdom man is being hailed a hero for the way he physically staved off an attempted mugging.
In context.......this might be the funniest f¥€£\#g thing I’ve Ever seen.
I gave Serious thought to passing my beer through my nose.
(“too painful!”...said the guy who Knows...
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Consider a fretless? Chris Brubeck made it sound fantastic.
Millennial here. Also embarrassed by the development and usage of this term by my generation. Yuck.
Would this be the generation that walked around in jeans, and undershirts, outraging their own parents with disrespect for societal norms? The generation that went to Woodstock and wore their hair long? Who glorified drugs and jazz and world music? Who tore down interracial barriers, causing a generational scism in Western society?
Good luck trying to tell a generation younger than you to respect their elders. Your elders thought that you weren't respectful of them and the social rules of the day, and their elders thought that they were wild firebrands too.
As surely as night follows day, there will always be a young generation disrespecting their elders, and the elders complaining about it. Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
I love it! Looks like it's affixed to be used as a handle for easy carrying!
a Ric is always a solid choice.
no...
...in decades gone by, when All I wanted was to grow up to be Chris Squire, the 19 yr old engineer in me spent weeks n Weeks looking for the sweet spot...where I could rest the heel of my hand, so as to sweep the plectrum across the strings PRECISELY half way twixt the pickups...
I never did play on the Big Stage...and, a decade later, I went from the pick to my fingers, (and from 15s to 10s)
(strike a Pose, dood!)
come with me now, as I ponder the OP, and His place in the TB community...
It was his 12th Ever post.
(I was born in 1955...the year the Brooklyn Dodgers won the World Series.). ✌
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