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Rickenbackers

#181
Ric5 said:
Ya ... VVT works great on the 4004 basses ... but a toggle and stacked pots with 2 vol and 2 tone controls is even better ...

Also you can put in toaster or high gain single coils in that bass ...

If you keep the humbuckers in then use 500k ohm pots in it ... Rickenbacker puts either 250 or 330 pots in ...
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Yeah,kinda done it all already with my other 4.....which i still own. So this one may escape all that.
 
#182
woodyng2 said:
Yeah,kinda done it all already with my other 4.....which i still own. So this one may escape all that.
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or you could add a 4 band preamp ...


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#185
woodyng2 said:
I removed the active system from my 8-string Fernandes. Not a fan of most active bass systems,and i've owned several over the years. (I do like Alembic's though.)
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I have 15 basses ... 8 active 7 passive ... I am building another passive so it can be 50 / 50

I only like 3 or 4 band active preamps ... 2 band totally sucks ...
 
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#199
Ric5 said:
more modded Ricks ... I need to get more aggressive to keep up with these guys

What us that red and black spear doing there?

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My guess is that is is a slender screwdriver that is adjusting some sort of internal trim pot on an active system? I thought Paul Wilczynski had a hand in that bass somewhere, but I don't see it on his website. I'm sure I've seen that bass before and it had a Yamaha Billy Sheehan/Attitude pickup up front, and was restored from a total wreck. Maybe I've just got a bunch of synapses up there making false connections.

All of those mods you've posted are not my thing, but well done to the guys that carried them out, purely for making a ballsy decision. No idea who thought two Dimarzio Model One pickups would enhance the tone of a Rickenbacker. Maybe they liked the feel of the Rick but wanted Gibson-style tone throughout? Is bass numbers 2 and 4 the same one, with a before and after shot? Same pickup setup (minus the neck in the latter) and Badass I bridge arrangement. Much better finish on the seafoam example, though I'm not sure what is going on with the pickguard.
 
#200
Axstar said:
My guess is that is is a slender screwdriver that is adjusting some sort of internal trim pot on an active system? I thought Paul Wilczynski had a hand in that bass somewhere, but I don't see it on his website. I'm sure I've seen that bass before and it had a Yamaha Billy Sheehan/Attitude pickup up front, and was restored from a total wreck. Maybe I've just got a bunch of synapses up there making false connections.

All of those mods you've posted are not my thing, but well done to the guys that carried them out, purely for making a ballsy decision. No idea who thought two Dimarzio Model One pickups would enhance the tone of a Rickenbacker. Maybe they liked the feel of the Rick but wanted Gibson-style tone throughout? Is bass numbers 2 and 4 the same one, with a before and after shot? Same pickup setup (minus the neck in the latter) and Badass I bridge arrangement. Much better finish on the seafoam example, though I'm not sure what is going on with the pickguard.
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I was simply being sarcastic ...
 

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