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Thanks for the short/long pole explanation Scott.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference in sound between a short and long pole toaster? Do the longer poles provide a stronger magnetic field and more output?

Hi Jack, no sound clips of the SVF at mo but here are a couple of pics. One knob sets frequency (300Hz to 5kHz) the other sets the Q Factor (magnitude of resonant peak at cut off freq). Jack in and jack out plus mini toggle for On/Bypass. Simple but effective. A useful little box to have on hand to ...

I've just discovered the Bill Lawrence Q-Filter which is a passive LCR device for modifying (reducing) the inductance of a pickup and opening up the sound/extending the frequency response. It fits in place of the standard tone cap. The guitar version is tuned to 1.8H and there's also a bass version ...

Thanks Dane. Your tappable HB1s now make me want a tappable version of the HiGains, that would be perfect! I'm a bit wary about making an irreversible mod like de-winding but it does seem to come down to that, or swapping out the pickups for something like the Classic Amplification vintage replaceme...

Thanks for the replies. Yes I was toying with the idea of swapping out the tone pots for 500k, that might open it up a bit. I may have a play by disconnecting the caps and adding some resistors to get the pot values up to 500 to see what it sounds like first. I've also just acquired a State Variable...

I've measured the DCR and inductance of the stock pickups in my 2019 4003S which come out as: Neck - DCR 11.2k / inductance 4.0H Bridge - DCR 11.0k / inductance 4.6H Measurements were made via the output jack with the pickups wired in circuit. I realise they won't be exactly the same as if measured ...

Also, I think the lower thumbrest is usually parallel to the strings.

The old tailpiece, including the bridge and mute, in the pic below weighs 307gm which is about 11oz.

Re weight of the new Ric bridge, thx1955 was kind enough to check that for me in another thread recently (http://www.rickresource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=416365&start=15) and it came out at 22oz. This compares with about 11oz for the standard bridge. Have to admit I'm surprised the new...

Thanks Jim. Yikes it's nearly twice the weight of the old zinc bridge!

Jim, would you mind double-checking the weight of the 2020 next gen Ric bridge? I found this pic of a regular (zinc) bridge which weighs in at 307gm (10.8oz) and surprised to see that the new bridge is 3oz heavier. Is it solid (milled) rather than a hollow casting like the old one? Thanks, Ian Ric b...

thx1955 wrote:Thanks for the reminder Ian

Thanks Jim!

I'd be interested in those weights if you ever got round to weighing them ...

Hi Philip, not intending to go behind your back or anything, I don't have any experience of Rics and was just interested in getting some other feedback from those who do. I hope that's not a problem? Ian