Cosmo Valdemar

Can You Hear Me? - Renaissance 

Joker James - The 'oo

Nasty Man - Joan Baez

Night Boat To Cairo - Madness 

World Coming Down - Type O Negative 

Earth Day - Devin Townsend 

Prisoner  - King's X

Black Dog On My Shoulder  - Manics

Bits and Pieces  - DC5

Spanish Boots - Jeff Beck

31 minutes ago, danbowskill said:

No, solid state (but can sound very Tube like) . I was referring to a trader posting a valver

Tbf ive risked posting 3 valve heads before (super packed) with good results

 

Im more than happy to post this 🙂

Gotcha 😁

On 01/07/2021 at 07:11, danbowskill said:

Happy to post but i doubt anyone posting a valve head would be very trusting of a courier

The Legacy isn't a valve head is it?

11 hours ago, KevB said:

To be fair to Roger Glover there are studio shots of him with a Fender on Fireball sessions (not sure if used in recording or not) and modded the PU's on his Ric after a while (eg the Denmark 1972 live gig on DVD). Whilst he did get a fine Ric tone he's probably not the poster boy for that particular bass.

RG played the unmodded Rick on Machine Head - there's lots of pics taken at the time of recording.

The version with Jazz pickups at the neck was played on Who Do We Think We Are - it's a woolier tone than Machine Head, but still sounds like a Rick. 

5 hours ago, prowla said:

All of this baloney about them being difficult to intonate, hard to do palm-muting, and so-on - who cares? Just play the darned thing!

It's not baloney. I disliked the original bridge for a variety of reasons so I swapped it for a Hipshot which suits me far better.

I wanted to play the darned thing, so I made it easier to do so.

2 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

Let's face it, no one wants to be playing top 40 or pub rock for nothing. 

I know plenty of people who do.

I Don't Know  - Ozzy

Ooh! That is absolutely glorious!

"Have, a good, time, ALL the time."

- Viv Savage

Interesting... do you have any pics?

I've decided to go down the route of getting a clean and powerful amp  - not necessarily 'neutral' but something that can serve as a blsnk canvas  - and relying on preamp pedals for colour. 

I've realised that my Tech 21 Leeds and VT pedals give me the tone that makes me happy, and for more modern flavours I use Warwick/Spector and Darkglass. The wonders and ease of modern technology. 

That said, the new GK Legacy heads are very tempting...

Hot Seat - Vic Chessnut 

10 minutes ago, Skybone said:

Must admit, although I prefer humbuckers on guitars, I prefer single coils on basses as they seem to cut through better in the mix. Again, horses for courses, YMMV etc..

That said, you can get Rick specific single coils that are RWRP, or work as such when put with a standard Ric pickup, like the Nordenbocker. Gemini Pickups in the UK make their's RWRP, not sure about the Classic Amplification ones though.

RWRP?

Pyretta Blaze - Type O Negative 

3 hours ago, Skybone said:

Taking the hum out of them is kind of taking a small bit of their "mojo" IMO. Of course, some people hate that they hum, and I do have to wonder why Ric still make both of the pickup windings in the same direction, but, it is part of the character of the 4001/4003 that it does this. I do find that rolling off the volume for the neck pickup a touch makes this less of an issue, but I also think that putting humbuckers on them robs them of some of their character.

Of course, it is horses for courses (or YMMV if you prefer).

Agreed. If you want that clank and rattle, it's got to be old school single coils - noise and all.

The Rick humbuckers are a lot darker.

Tyred of Waiting - Kinks