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Practical question for Rick users

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Tim1

Sep 9, 2005
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#1
Just for the hell of it and because I can...........I have been thinking of playing a gig with my 2011 4003 using the Ric-o-sound stereo option and running one pickup into a Fender Super Bassman 300/neo 610 cab and the other into an Orange AD200/Bergantino NV215. It will be overkill for sure but it got me thinking:
If I use a stereo cable will I then need two separate DI boxes for the FOH? This seems to me to be the only option, bringing with it all sorts of possible issues with a soundman who probably has no idea of the concept of setting up pickups with two different tones/heads. The only alternative I can see is that I also run an output from the mono out on the bass into a single DI box for FOH, but I suspect that output probably won't work if the stereo output is being used.
I have been quite happy using the Ric in mono as most of us no doubt do, and may well never get around to trying it in stereo, but I would still be interested in hearing how others approach this issue.
 
#2
I'm pretty sure you can't run both the stereo and mono outs at once, but I may be incorrect on that.

Just bring two microphones and set them up. Screw DI if you're going to be hauling two halfstacks.

I've considered running a stereo rig (neck pickup to Mesa D-180 through a Sunn 2000S 2x15 cab, bridge pickup to Sunn Model T Reissue through an Ampeg 4x12 cab), but if I was going through the PA at all, I'd insist on a mic at least on the bridge pickup rig (DI for the neck pickup rig could be okay, despite how wonderful the 2000S cab is).
 
#4
Ric-O-Sound is cool, but a lot of trouble. First off, you only use one of the two jacks on the bass- either a normal mono TS cable from the mono output, or a stereo TRS cable from the ROS jack. There are stereo to two mono cables that would be ideal, it's a TRS jack on one end that splits out to two mono TS jacks on the other end. Plug each into a separate amp, and yes, separate DI's from each half to front of house.
 
#5
I have had a Ric 4001 for many years. In my first few years with it I flirted with using two amps and gigged with both Hiwatt and Marshall amps and cabs simultaneously. I quickly concluded that, for me at least, the tonal options that it gave me weren't worth the hassle of humping two rigs about.
 
#6
I have never used Ric-o-sound on a gig because I din't want to carry 2 amps. Also many of my Rics were mono. Also some of the stereo Rics had a malfunctioning Ric-o-sound jack.

I did try the ric-o-sound in my basement and it sounded really cool.
 
#8
RickenBoogie said:
Ric-O-Sound is cool, but a lot of trouble. First off, you only use one of the two jacks on the bass- either a normal mono TS cable from the mono output, or a stereo TRS cable from the ROS jack. There are stereo to two mono cables that would be ideal, it's a TRS jack on one end that splits out to two mono TS jacks on the other end. Plug each into a separate amp, and yes, separate DI's from each half to front of house.
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Here's a pic of the stereo to mono cable in case anyone wants to build one. Two signals require two DI's.

 

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