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Yep - I'm with you there.

My, that's a big one!

The last London Show I went to there were times where it felt like my whole head was resonating with the volume wars. Somehow there needs to be a way for people to play the amps at a level suitable to hear the kit, but not directly facing someone else who wants to hear their kit too!

I think that it can vary one Ric to the next; my mapleglo 2010 sounds as near to vintage as my vintage one.

Well, the normal position on the new ones is that the series treble cap is bypassed, for the "modern" sound which also means the treble pickup is louder, but you can pull the treble knob to get the "vintage" sound.

I was just browsing and though that the fact it does leading and trailing edges made it interesting...

So, I bought an Aguilar Filter Twin pedal. Now, what the heck do I do with it???

A pair of Seymour Duncans. It'll also have a Kahler trem bridge (needs a bit more work to get it fitted properly) and a Hipshot eXtender.

I'm putting a pair of humbuckers on a 4003; with that switch I'll have 3 positions for humbucking and 3 for single-coil.

Pull the treble Tone knob and job's a good 'un!

Yep - I'm good with that! 🙂

Thanks for the info - so it’s the same fit barrel socket with just a different connector on the other end.

I fitted a push-pull vintage/modern pot to my '78. But it is a very expansive, thick sound to it.

I'm just about to wire up a Ric bass with a 6-way switch. http://www.nsfcontrols.co.uk/our-products/free-way-switch/

Great - out of ignorance, what does "the smaller R5 JTS socket" mean?

Itsh Shpectre, mish moanypenneh.

Oh lawd - that one again. Despite all the grumbling, he seems to set it up pretty well in the end and half of his trouble seemed to be remembering which gin bottle he'd left his tools behind. (I wonder if he complains about Gibsons & other tune-o-matics too?)

One other thing re. the one-trick pony signature sound... I went into Wunjo (Denmark Street) a few months back and going down the stairs there was a big expansive sound like a double bass playing; I went into the room and it was someone on a Ric through a Markbass! Mind you, I do go for the clatter & clang myself...

I took a couple of them to the last SE Bass Bash...🙂

I use Rotosound 40-100 on a Ric. I recently swapped the strings on a Warwick to Rotos and the action went low; I guess they are lower tension than whatever was on there before. One of the reasons for Ricenbacker's dislike of Rotos was the abrasiveness, not the tension, as they could wear the frets down. That said, my '64 has had Rotos on it since the 70s, all bar a short period where I had it set up and they put Dean Markleys on it (but I reverted to Rotos).

Yes - that was one to dodge - there was video of the bloke smashing it into the floor and chucking it about on stage; the fact that it survived is noteworthy!

Actually, Rics have a superior truss-rod mechanism to most other brands; they are very responsive and the twin rods allow you to adjust laterally too. Further, they are field-replaceable, without surgery or specialised tools. Some folks seem to think that Ric should have retrospectively adopted Fenders designs back in the 50s, on the basis that people would be complaining about it on internet forums more than half a century on.

They did change the ergonomics (and the other stuff folks complain about), but people just kept on buying the older model!

On the car analogy - I have a Rickenbacker and I drive a Lotus...