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[Fletz]

Rickenbacker 4003 experts -

I just got this 4003 on Thursday night. I am not sure if the tonal changes are subtle and I'm not picking them up or there is something wrong with my tone controls... Please take a look at this 90 second video of me playing and switching pups and tone, etc.



At about 34 seconds I start with the tone knobs...

Please let me know if you feel like it's something wrong or if that's just the nature of the Ric.

Thanks all!

 

[rekesbass]

you're changing things so fast and not doing anything in between tone changes..slow it down,work with one pup at a time and play something between tone changes...BTW.the push\pull tone pot only effects the treble\bridge pup.

 

[johndough247]

Rickenbacker 4003 experts -

I just got this 4003 on Thursday night. I am not sure if the tonal changes are subtle and I'm not picking them up or there is something wrong with my tone controls... Please take a look at this 90 second video of me playing and switching pups and tone, etc.



At about 34 seconds I start with the tone knobs...

Please let me know if you feel like it's something wrong or if that's just the nature of the Ric.

Thanks all!

pickup selector switch up - bass (neck) pickup
pickup selector switch down - treble (bridge) pickup

treble tone knob up - vintage (i.e 4001) capacitor ON: volume from bridge pickup will noticably drop due to the bass-cutting .0047 capacitor.

" " knob down - capacitor bypassed (i.e. standard 4003 sound, normal volume from bridge pickup)

Didn't hear or see anything that's "wrong"...however, you were at one point fiddling with the treble tone and capacitor switch when the pickup selector was on the bass pickup setting...you shouldn't hear any difference there.