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Ricko sound

fathom66

fathom66

Jun 11, 2010
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New Braunfels, Tx
#1
To my pro bass brethren out there. I now own a rickenbacker 4003... Only gigged with it once and jammed it via mono through my 500 watt hartke combo... Liked what I heard. Now, doing some research and thinking about trying out that Rick-o-sound function on my guitar... Now I don't know much about splitting up but from what I understand it can separate my bridge and neck pickups using two separate amps... Of course with a Rick-o box or of something similar... Has Anybody out there tried this? I was thinking of buying a rick-e split box and utilize my 350 watt fender rumble along with the hartke... Just trying to figure out how it will work considering I use a compressor, sans amp di, and wireless (which I imagine I won't use if I go to this) on my "mono" setup.... Could use any insight or advice... Maybe ant stereo cable recommendations if I need it?
 
#2
fathom66 said:
To my pro bass brethren out there. I now own a rickenbacker 4003... Only gigged with it once and jammed it via mono through my 500 watt hartke combo... Liked what I heard. Now, doing some research and thinking about trying out that Rick-o-sound function on my guitar... Now I don't know much about splitting up but from what I understand it can separate my bridge and neck pickups using two separate amps... Of course with a Rick-o box or of something similar... Has Anybody out there tried this? I was thinking of buying a rick-e split box and utilize my 350 watt fender rumble along with the hartke... Just trying to figure out how it will work considering I use a compressor, sans amp di, and wireless (which I imagine I won't use if I go to this) on my "mono" setup.... Could use any insight or advice... Maybe ant stereo cable recommendations if I need it?
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Either buy or make a cable with TRS/Stereo on one end and 2 monos on the other end. A "neater" solution would be to grab a STEREO cable and build the split box; it'd be a simple STEREO 1/4" female on one end and 2 MONO 1/4" females on the other. TIP to one mono, RING to the other mono, and SLEEVE to both. You're wireless will be out of the picture in this scenario.

I did this years back with my Rick (now sold after I switched to fivers) and had some fun with it. I sent each pickup to different sides of a 2x15 rackmount graphic EQ and was able to fine tune the sound. it was a fun experiment but In the end, I felt the complexity of bi-amping wasn't really worth it. I was able to achieve a pleasing tone without it.
 
#3
I just switched to stereo and absolutely love it. Only draw back is no more wireless. I'm not buying a stereo wireless, or another wireless system.

I run a 25' TRS cable to a TRS female to dual mono male wye cable. The bass pup to a DHA VT1 tube preamp, then fdeck HPF, amp, cabinet. The treble pup to a MS-60b (mostly as a tuner), B7k, chorus, amp, cabinet #2.

Both the B7k and the VT1 have controllable DI's, so I will run these 2 signals to FOH.

First show tonight with this rig and I can't wait to see how it goes.
 
#4
Forgot to mention......if it goes well tonight, I will more than likely order the Rich-e-split box. Rich lives local and seems to be a stand up guy.
 
#5
I built my own box with the stereo cord hardwired to the box, and two mono out jacks to run to the amps (same as the RoS box).
Very simple to do and cheap.
Later I bought a RoS box when they were discontinued and still had stock.

Only problem is lugging around two rigs and deciding which rig gets the effects, which like yours includes a compressor in the line.
In my case it would be best to use the comp on the neck pup since I use it basically as a limiter, but then I might want to put the effects like chorus and flange on the bridge pup.
 
#6
Way back in the dawn of time, in the Great Before, when dinosaurs roamed the prairies and I still had hair on top...there used to be 1/4" stereo cables that split to two mono 1/4" for the last foot or so. I ran one of those with the two mono plugs in my bass, out to a splitter box which just basically was a 1/4" stereo female jack on one side and two 1/4" female mono jacks on the other. From that box I went bridge out to SVT and neck out to Acoustic 360. Sometimes I accidentally switched those. Alcohol was involved. The first many months that I did this was with a 79 Ric 4003. Then I got a Univox Stereo Bass to be my backup and liked the fake Ric more than the real Ric.

But I haven't seen that kind of cable or one of those splitter boxes since the late 80's-early 90's.
 

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