Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

If ya gotta have the gap,them's is your choices. (Or find an old Rick HS from the 60's).
I think CA's classic flattop sounds pretty much like what i would want out of a bridge pickup,but no gap,alas.

Kalium. Balanced Hybrid. Fabulosity squared,the Best!


And i also like DR Pure Blues a lot.

marcinkus wrote:7)
CA flat top pickup! It is wound to 8.8k and now the bass sounds clear and solid. Really great pickup!
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l263/ ... G_0396.jpg

Glad you're liking it.
I'm really enjoying mine,it's a very classic sort of tone,lots of edge and clarity.

chrisdski wrote:https://youtu.be/W91zY3PuBQs[/youtube]

Fantastic performance!

One of the bands i'm in played at an outdoor gig Saturday afternoon,lotta fun.
I used the new Laredo custom,which sounded fabtastic....

Excellent.
Love your triple neck juxtaposition toward the end,too.

I had about 500 albums that i sold,along with my Technics linear tracking turntable,about 20 or so years ago. I had already replaced a lot of them with cd's and gradually just didn't listen to the lps anymore. Now all my cd's are on my itunes,so i seldom actually ever play the actual cds either. I w...

prowla wrote:What's the S/N?

I have a '64 RM1999, with original pickups, but sprayed white.

That is Lovely!

spamegg wrote:Here's my contribution - A 1977 AG 3001. It's as nice as it looks!

Nice one,Donald!
The 3001 looks great in that color.

The Ltf set really sounds great pick-played on a fretted Rick. I tried a set for awhile on my defretted Cii,which sounded really nice,but i replaced them with the Optima RB set,which seem to have a bit more lively upper range. If thr ltf strings hadn't been cut for the Rick,i would be trying them ou...

They did a beautiful job,that's a great looking finish.(and niiice rare black plexi trc,too!)
The only thing i would add would be a bezel to fill in that bridge pickup hole. (Black or chrome).
Congrats!

IMHO the RIHS pups look great but don't reproduce the vintage tone one might expect. The Lollar HS pups are much better in this regard. Also, like the original HS, the Lollars are wound to a low dc resistance, so the output should be a better match to your neck toaster than the RIHS. Agreed,and the...

Thanks for the tip Woody. I must admit though that I've just fired off a missive to Jason asking about availability of the Lollar. The old girl just deserves the best. Is my pre-1979 button PU worth anything? I would tend to agree,if you want the best for your bass,might as well pay the price! I'm ...

Looks pretty perfect to me!
Welcome to RRF!
If the Lollar's pickup price throws you off,i can recommend Classic Amplification's "60's flattop" as a possible replacement. It will be a lot more classic sounding than the RIHS. (At less than 1/3 the price of the Lollar).

Very observant! The pickup is a short magnet/flat bottom toaster with a DCR around 3.6K. The strings are stock RIC round wounds. Amazingly wonderful tone, IMO. That is amazingly wonderful! Is that the same thing as Ric's scatterwound toaster? Obviously,it's not their "hot" toaster at 3.6k...