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Ric Owners - I need your help quick!!
- Thread starter woodsideh
- Start date
congrats on the find, winston salem never has any cool CL stuff compared to charlotte and raleigh
i'm still waiting for my "check out this $1500 bass i just bought for $275" moment to happen on Raleigh's craigslist.
oh, and I just wanted to post that I am insanely jealous of the OP right now. 'specially since he's a couple hours down the road.
Way to go man! It's not stock but it looks like a solid player. I appreciate you posting the serial... you never know.
You'll need to buy an entire bridge pickup to replace what's there now if you want to go stock. Normally you could have just bought the bobbin... but the previous owner took the whole surround off.
That bass would have had a "neck Hi-Gain" and the horseshoe-style "bridge Hi-Gain" for bass, RIC sells both currently. However make sure you dislike the current pickups first.
By the way, that's a 4001, not a 4001S.
You'll need to buy an entire bridge pickup to replace what's there now if you want to go stock. Normally you could have just bought the bobbin... but the previous owner took the whole surround off.
That bass would have had a "neck Hi-Gain" and the horseshoe-style "bridge Hi-Gain" for bass, RIC sells both currently. However make sure you dislike the current pickups first.
By the way, that's a 4001, not a 4001S.
I thought the S had something to do with the stereo output. My bad.
Can somebody help explain the stereo output. What does it do? Do I need a different cable? Do I do something different at the amp?
the stereo out is to be used with a stereo cable into a ric-o-sound box then from the box to two seperate amps..or get a cable that has a stereo plug on one end that goes to two mono plugs at the other end and plug in to two amps..it seperates the pups to run into two different amps
I would not have been so concerned about whether or not it was a fake if it was only $275. I would have bought it if it was playable and asked questions later.
Nice purchase, btw.
Nice purchase, btw.
4001S basses have dots on the neck and no binding around the body. They also only have one input jack. And I don't think you will ever need to worry about the stereo jack. I've been playing Ricks for about 13 years and have never used the stereo jack.
Be very careful. There's a link around here somewhere (Hardware & setup?) about adjusting Ric truss rods. If you do it wrong, you can pop off the fingerboard.
Thanks! The neck is very straight. I don't trust myself to mess with the truss rod anyway.
If the neck is straight now you will likely never have a need to adjust the truss rods... ever!
The stereo jack is actually upstream electronically of the mono jack (the mono jack is also a switching stereo jack confusingly). At the stereo ("ROS") jack, the pickups and their respective pots have not been electrically joined. This has a couple of implications.
1. The impedance loading on each pickup should be twice as high (that results in a brighter tone).
2. The pickup signals can be maintained separately using a 1/4'' TRS plug. Historically this plug then went into a box that split the signals into two separate mono signals for two separate amps, or you can just get a Y-cable that does this without a box, or you can use stereo inputs in a preamp and then join the signals in the amp... etc.
3. If you just want to use the treble pickup in mono, plug all the way into the ROS jack with a mono cable plug and you'll get a brighter-sounding treble pickup.
4. If you want to send out two separate mono signals ("dual mono" also found on some Ric guitars), plug a mono cable into the mono jack, which switches and sends a mono signal to the ROS jack as well (on the "ring" part not the "tip" part of where the TRS plug meets up with the jack). You can then modify a stereo plug into a mono plug that operates off of the ring exclusively and send out a second mono signal. Two mono signals to two amps... unlike normal Ric-O-Sound the signals will be identical so it has different uses.
I enjoy Ric-O-Sound (the stereo output) the most in recordings... I usually do one track per pickup, and then those tracks get mixed against each other and given their own effects/EQ and finally are blended into a single track for mastering.
The stereo jack is actually upstream electronically of the mono jack (the mono jack is also a switching stereo jack confusingly). At the stereo ("ROS") jack, the pickups and their respective pots have not been electrically joined. This has a couple of implications.
1. The impedance loading on each pickup should be twice as high (that results in a brighter tone).
2. The pickup signals can be maintained separately using a 1/4'' TRS plug. Historically this plug then went into a box that split the signals into two separate mono signals for two separate amps, or you can just get a Y-cable that does this without a box, or you can use stereo inputs in a preamp and then join the signals in the amp... etc.
3. If you just want to use the treble pickup in mono, plug all the way into the ROS jack with a mono cable plug and you'll get a brighter-sounding treble pickup.
4. If you want to send out two separate mono signals ("dual mono" also found on some Ric guitars), plug a mono cable into the mono jack, which switches and sends a mono signal to the ROS jack as well (on the "ring" part not the "tip" part of where the TRS plug meets up with the jack). You can then modify a stereo plug into a mono plug that operates off of the ring exclusively and send out a second mono signal. Two mono signals to two amps... unlike normal Ric-O-Sound the signals will be identical so it has different uses.
I enjoy Ric-O-Sound (the stereo output) the most in recordings... I usually do one track per pickup, and then those tracks get mixed against each other and given their own effects/EQ and finally are blended into a single track for mastering.
