there's a used one in my city, I'm going to try and play with it before I buy, but anyone have one and can tell me how they sound? do they have that special ricky sound or not at all? I'm trying to find youtube clips and such but no luck...seems like a rare animal!
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They sound like an angry, brighter P bass due to having a thin maple body like a Ric, and a humbucking pickup that's kinda precision sounding. If Ric5 comes on, he most likely has a clip.
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Actually I have never player the 3000 or the 3001.
I have owned and played several of the 2000 series basses which were based on the 3000 body shape. The pickups in the 3000/3001 are similar to the pickups in the Gibson G3 bass which also has a maple body.
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I've seen video of Bob Hardy (of Franz Ferdinand) playing what looks like a 3000 or 3001. Check that popular video site for them doing No You Girls on TV. I've always dug that song and thought it sounded like a Rick, was surprised it wasn't a 4000-series!
Get it!
It's going to sound like a brighter P bass, and is able to cop 4003 tones quite well
Yeah, Ric5, I saw that the 3000 was short scale, and the 3001 long - those vids I put up I'm pretty sure have a few 3000's in them, and even in their crappy quality you can hear that bass' character shine through.
It's going to sound like a brighter P bass, and is able to cop 4003 tones quite well
Yeah, Ric5, I saw that the 3000 was short scale, and the 3001 long - those vids I put up I'm pretty sure have a few 3000's in them, and even in their crappy quality you can hear that bass' character shine through.
I don't know about others on this forum, but I've never had trouble slapping a Ric.
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I've had. not slapping actually, but popping. sure any bass can be slapped, but I find ricks kind of awkward for it...kinda like gibsons...
NO, it's MINE!
i really do want it, I'm just trying to gather some info, they are so elusive
These used to be easy to get on the cheap until Ric prices really shot up around 2007-2008. From what I can tell the 3000 series basses are supposed to have a good sound with a lot of sustain. The only drawback I know of is they are supposed to be quite heavy. (The same has been said of P Basses with maple bodies... maple is much denser wood than alder or ash, that's why it's almost always used for necks.)
They also have a weird passive tone circuit (treble and bass cut knobs) that might be better off replaced with something else but I've never actually tried one to find out.
I'm actually more interested in a 3000 than a 3001 because I think the short scale has a cool tone to it.
They also have a weird passive tone circuit (treble and bass cut knobs) that might be better off replaced with something else but I've never actually tried one to find out.
I'm actually more interested in a 3000 than a 3001 because I think the short scale has a cool tone to it.
Yeah, I have a '78 3001 & I love it. It's my fave of the three Ricks that I own (4001, 4003). I've had it since '94 & have recorded & gigged extensively with it. In my experience it has more fundamental lows than the 4001/4003 & just a great pissed off P-bass type of tone. Bolt on neck & yes, VERY heavy. Certainly not as elegant as the 4000 series, but just a fantastic bass. They're really the biggest sleeper Ricks out there.
I'm not a slapper, but I think this bass lends itself to that approach better than the 4001/4003.
John Hall (RIC CEO) is quite fond of these basses & drops some fascinating factoids on the Rick Forum from time to time. Like this one:
"The creation of this series was overseen by our chief electronics engineer at the time, George Cole. (He was also the architect of the TR amp series.) He is also a superb bass player and worked with many of the greats in the past. As such there were a number of little "quirks" or optimizations he proposed and/or introduced on these instruments. The pickup design is utterly elegant, with a single coil fitted around a bar magnet that rests against the steel frame, that then become two poles pieces at each our edge of the pickup. The design not only shields the coil very well, it has a pseudo-humbucking effect that doesn't change the single coil sound.
Some other features are the lead weights under the fingerboard to put extra mass precisely where needed to even out the notes across the fingerboard. (That technique was expanded to the 4000 series for awhile too.)"
Obviously if the original pick-up is gone, so is some of it's inherent magic. But Ric5 makes a good point....a HB-1 would be an easy & interesting mod.
Good luck to you sir.
I'm not a slapper, but I think this bass lends itself to that approach better than the 4001/4003.
John Hall (RIC CEO) is quite fond of these basses & drops some fascinating factoids on the Rick Forum from time to time. Like this one:
"The creation of this series was overseen by our chief electronics engineer at the time, George Cole. (He was also the architect of the TR amp series.) He is also a superb bass player and worked with many of the greats in the past. As such there were a number of little "quirks" or optimizations he proposed and/or introduced on these instruments. The pickup design is utterly elegant, with a single coil fitted around a bar magnet that rests against the steel frame, that then become two poles pieces at each our edge of the pickup. The design not only shields the coil very well, it has a pseudo-humbucking effect that doesn't change the single coil sound.
Some other features are the lead weights under the fingerboard to put extra mass precisely where needed to even out the notes across the fingerboard. (That technique was expanded to the 4000 series for awhile too.)"
Obviously if the original pick-up is gone, so is some of it's inherent magic. But Ric5 makes a good point....a HB-1 would be an easy & interesting mod.
Good luck to you sir.
