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The Rickenbacker Club Part Nine

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Re: Geddy tone/biamping, I picked a cool 15W Vox Night Train tube head a short while back and a 12" Celestion closed-back guitar cab. I've experimented with Ric-o-sound through it and the bass pickup through my living room Peavy combo, and the sound is amazing. Overdrive the treble pickup and control the two sound independently, it's something else!

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I don't know if I trust the guitar cab enough to gig with it, though.

The other problem is that when you run two seperate channels like this, you have to decide which channel gets your effects pedals. Maybe I could use one or two of those mixers like Ric5 is using on his board to manage the two signals. I didn't know such things existed until now. This stuff makes one into such a gear head, I both love it and hate it.

In the meantime, I get a great tone by just running mono through a DarkGlass b3k pedal into an Ampeg pf500 / pf210he rig. For a bar-sized gig it gets that "grumblebark" sound and punches through loud and clear without stepping on the guitarist's sonic turf.
 
#262
Ric5 said:
These days Geddy gets that tone by parallel processing. Most people will use effects in a serial manner. But you can split the signal 2, 3, or 4 ways, and run each through a seperate effect and then recombine them. That is effective what the Ris-o-sound does ... it splits the signal into 2 parallel signals and then runs it into 2 seperate amps. Most bass players don't wnay to use 2 seperate amps but you can still do parallel processing on your pedalboard.

I run 4 parallel processes on my pedalboard.
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A lot of the really cool tones out there can only happen with serial processing, though. Like putting an octave pedal somewhere upstream of an envelope filter and then running both. Or an octave pedal upstream of all kinds of effects really. Just saying.
 
#264
Ric5 said:
The original horseshoe pickup had magnetized steel shoes ... Steel does not make a good magnet ... Then the "shoes" restrict string access ... There is a reason why Rickenbacker discontinued the Horseshoe pickup and introduced the high gain as its replacement.
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I'm one of those who prefers the pickup cover on, so the string access is a non-issue for me.

I probably wouldn't want an original horseshoe pickup in my main bass, but it would be nice to have one, for the sake of a different flavor of Ric tone I guess.
 
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Jaymi said:
Classic Funk-Rick James
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Did he ever actually play that 4001 or just pose with it?

Anyway, I think the list goes way, way beyond those three guys. I mean, your slap stuff is kind of its own testimony about not putting Rics in a box. Some of the earliest Ric bass artists were country players.

The out-of-the-box tone with a Ric isn't really any of these classic tones in my experience, it's whatever you make of it. Yes it sounds quite a bit different from a Fender Jazz, but that base layer can be shaped thousands of different ways (just like the Jazz sound can also be modified by the player's choices and technique).
 
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thiocyclist said:
Did he ever actually play that 4001 or just pose with it?

Anyway, I think the list goes way, way beyond those three guys. I mean, your slap stuff is kind of its own testimony about not putting Rics in a box. Some of the earliest Ric bass artists were country players.

The out-of-the-box tone with a Ric isn't really any of these classic tones in my experience, it's whatever you make of it. Yes it sounds quite a bit different from a Fender Jazz, but that base layer can be shaped thousands of different ways (just like the Jazz sound can also be modified by the player's choices and technique).
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Agreed, these were just the first couple that came to mind.....
 
#279
That's An old myth. Chris has had his bass wired with 2 outputs since he started playing it,with each pickup going to a separate amp,so there most likely is never a time you won't be hearing both pickups...unless he selects it for a passage during part of a song for example. Plus,his other pickup,a toaster isn't going to be as hot as a modern higain,either.
 
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