Rickenbacker players: Wanna know about your rigs!

I've used my 4001 thru my Mesa 400+ and two Eden 410XLT's, but the classic Rick growl comes through better with my '72 SVT. I usually run the SVT with tone controls dead flat, and the volume between 10 and 11 O'clock.

 

I wail my RIC through a Ampeg SVT Classic that I just sold and now I play her through my SVT 3 into a Ampeg 4 10 and a Ampeg 2 10, It smokes!

 

My 4003 goes clean (no effects) into my Peavey Mark IV head (high gain input), with a Peavey 4x10 on channel A and a Sunn 6x10 on channel B. Between the two pickups on the Ric and the Pyramid and EQ on the amp, I come up with a huge range of sound. When I practice, I keep the pre-gains at about 2. When I jam with others, they sit at about 4. Although I think I show admirable restraint when I practice, the neighbors still hate me.

-72

 

For practise at home, I run my Rics through a '67 Jansen Bassman 35w tube head (superb local copy of a Fender Bassman) into a JBL 1x15. Gives me a really warm smooth sound, great for dub excursions, but no bite whatsoever.

For rehearsal and gigs, I was running a '72 Ampeg V4 into an Ampeg SVT410HLN...3pm boost on the 1Khz, full bass and a 1pm hint of treble. Vicious tone is all I can say, but lacking in headroom (we practise at over-gig volume).

Now i'm running an Eden WT800 into the same cabinet, with EQ set to achieve an Ampeg-like tone (gain maxxed, 1pm bass, 1pm 1Khz boost, varying 3Khz and treble boosts depending on the room, etc). Headroom and EQ to spare.

 

I run my mapleglo 4003 full-time through a Walter Woods Ultra Hi-power amp, and a Euphonic Audio VL-210 4 ohm cabinet. Don't use effects of any kind. My Ric is strung with Pyramid Gold flatwounds, the best bass strings ever. This is the best bass set-up I've ever used.

 

i played my Rick 4001 thru a lot of amps. i liked expecially an old Marshall rig it was a JCM 800 head and a 4x12 cabinet. i loved that sound. actually my personal rig is a three channel preamp, it's a Tubema plus by Hughes & Kettner, the head is a SWR sm 400s and the cabinets is an homemade Magirus 412. it's an old style can with jensen speaker, as the name suggests the speaker are 4 12". no tweeter and no bass reflex. it is my first home made cab.... the sound is good. i used to have a svt3 pro but i prefer the swr sound, even with the rick. the swr is for me darker and with the magirus cabinet i can have a sound very similar to the famous old SVT sound. i was impressed by a gallien krueger rig too.

 

i played my Rick 4001 thru a lot of amps. i liked expecially an old Marshall rig it was a JCM 800 head and a 4x12 cabinet. i loved that sound. actually my personal rig is a three channel preamp, it's a Tubeman plus by Hughes & Kettner, the head is a SWR sm 400s and the cabinets is an homemade Magirus 412. it's an old style can with jensen speaker, as the name suggests the speaker are 4 12". no tweeter and no bass reflex. it is my first home made cab.... the sound is good. i used to have a svt3 pro but i prefer the swr sound, even with the rick. the swr is for me darker and with the magirus cabinet i can have a sound very similar to the famous old SVT sound. i was impressed by a gallien krueger rig too.

 

I amp the 4003 Rick with an SWR 350 and use a (4 X 10) SWR Golieth and an (1 X 15) Ampeg SVT-15.

This rig will kill small animals out to about 50 yards.

 

right now my rig consists of a carvin r600, 2x10 combo, an old peavey 2x15 with one of the speakers replaced with a carvin, and a newer peavey 18" PA sub (the one with the wierd cabinet, with the sideways speaker). I run the 2x10 and the 2x15 off of the high channel of the amp and the 18 off of the low.
I figured that using the 18 I could lose the 2x15 but the fifteens push some really nice mids that the 18 and 10s don't seem to find.
Best part about it is that I can bring down small aircraft just while tuning up.