Rickenbacker's "secret"?

[Ric5]

Ya ... that is a cool Ric ... the neck is flat with finger tight truss rods ...

 

[Snowglo]

Here's a little trick to make you Rick sound better ...

The 4003 basses usually come from the factory with the nut cut too high. Some of them it is bad enough to where playing notes on the first 2 frets makes those notes go sharp.

Lower the nut and / or deepen the grooves and your Rick will play better and sound better.

I always thought the nut on my 4003 looked way too high. However, I get E string fret buzzing playing F, F# & G. If I raise the bridge a tad then the entire action gets too high for my liking. I believe the neck is dead straight.

 

[4DGeorge]

Back to the questions about general Rick setup, with or without the capacitor: I stumbled across this today:
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Interesting info.

 

[JMacBass65]

Back to the questions about general Rick setup, with or without the capacitor: I stumbled across this today:
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Interesting info.

I wired in a mini toggle and bridge cap after reading that page a couple of years ago. So glad I did.