I don't get this. Why are these features desirable? I think the mid-70's hi-gains were better pickups. And how do the checkerboard and inlays matter?
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I don't get this. Why are these features desirable? I think the mid-70's hi-gains were better pickups. And how do the checkerboard and inlays matter?
All the orig paperwork when I bought it in 75 said it was a 4001S
Of course it was only $275 new and I was still in High School
S must mean dots and reg 4001 = triangles on the inlays
Of course it was only $275 new and I was still in High School
S must mean dots and reg 4001 = triangles on the inlays
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You are right ... but to collectors they want the rare stuff not the best playing basses.
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Yep, if you want to worship it on the wall and not play it, go for the features!!!! LOL.....I have had a number of them but they always ended up getting sold off....did not play them much....74-95ish for me...nothing older...
Checkerboard binding is cool looking, but my favorite 4001's were always the later ones, '76, '77, etc. But for my money, '06 and on is where it's at. All my older ones are gone, but I still have an '06 4003 and an '08 4004Cii that beat the pants off ALL the older ones.
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Jaymi
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DionClassic said:
I put EB Slinkies on my 2001JetGlo when I got it last year because that is what Ai had on all my other basses. But then in December I got a brand new MapleGlo and I really like the Ric factory strings which are nickel roundwounds and a slightly lighter gauge than my EB's. I was thinking of going back to the Ric factory strings for the JetGlo. The new bass sounds so killer! The older one sounds muddy at times. Could also be a difference in electronics too. But I'd rather get the JG sounding more like the MG.
Time to pull off the Rick strings that came on my 4004L; Rounds or flats, either way they will be TIs. The RIC strings are quite abrasive and aggressive sounding (my two other Ricks handle that department so I may tend toward the Jazz Flats. The neck HB-1 sounds great, very classic Rick tone in there, the bridge HB-1 possesses a sound very much like that of the magnetic horseshoe pickup with the tone control FCW. Rolling to tone control back some I can pretty much do the jaco thing with it, near the bridge, and get much fuller tones playing closer to the neck.
I love the the Ric strings but at $50 per set I get tired of paying that pretty quick. I use Rotosound Swing Bass or EB Super Slinkys. Not a flats guy at all.
Where are you buying $50 Ric strings? I seem to remember them being no more then a set of Roto's.
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