I've got a case of the Ritters ...

[ahpook]

[quote name='Born 2B Mild' post='225797' date='Jun 24 2008, 12:25 PM']I see these and other shiny works of art, and yes, they are great eye candy. Then I see some guy down the local live pub with a worn-out Fender with just enough surviving bits of paintwork to reveal that it was once a sunburst, getting a fat, woody vintage growl... and I yearn to have that old simple, passive veteran under my shoulders, much more than a blinged-up object d'art with NASA electronics.

I'll get my unfashionable old git coat...[/quote]


[size=1]/quiety/ i think they're god-awful looking bases...that blue is just horrific[/size]

[mcgraham]

[quote]I've played a couple and the all maple bodies mean the basses sound very bright with a very tight and compressed low end. They feel nice for slapping but I'd really need a warm rig like an SWR to get the best out of them. If I'm paying that kind of money, I'd expect more versatility tonally. You could probably get a very similar sound from a Pedulla MVP if you swap out the pickups for super clean sounding models like EMG, Rough Crystal or Alembic plus an East preamp.

There again, with that insanely beautiful wood it seems almost a shame to take them off the wall hanger.[/quote]

That makes sense about the maple bodies. Although oddly enough, the maple bodied Smith I had wasn't particularly bright, it actually had quite a muted top end.

I misread what you typed there. I thought you'd intimated you could improve the sound of a Ritter by replacing the pickups. Which would seem ludicrous considering how much you would have spent on the bass Though you could argue if you've spent that much, what would another couple of hundred matter

Mark

[misrule]

[quote name='ahpook' post='225842' date='Jun 24 2008, 01:14 PM'][size=1]/quiety/ i think they're god-awful looking bases...that blue is just horrific[/size][/quote]
Arf

Cheers

Mark