Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I have one. Nice and portable. The only thing holding them back is anti-solid-state snobbery, I think.

I have discovered that my hi-gain 360 and old Ampegs are a match made in heaven. My favorite with it is a mid-60s R-12-RT Reverberocket, but it also sounds great through my Gemini I. On the other hand, one day a bandmate brought over his Marshall JCM-800 half stack, and although that's not a tone I ...

You can't beat those deals with a stick! I have a TR25 too and it's a great amp.

My Roland JC-120 benefited substantially from swapping in some punchier speakers. In the past few months I've picked up a couple amps that have been working really well with my Rics. I got an old Traynor YGM-3 "Guitar Mate", and it's possibly the best all-around amp I've played in years. I...

I saw them a bunch of times later (Boylan Heights and subsequent). They look so young in that video! They've got a lot of great songs.

I've had several models. Good speakers. There's a subjective element to any speaker choice so it's impossible to say that model X from WGS is "better" or "worse" than model Y from Celestion or model Z from Eminence, but WGS is on par with companies like those (i.e., they don't ma...

The neck on my 650D is much chunkier than the neck on my 660/12. The 660 has more of a thin "D" profile neck whereas the 650 has a meaty "C" profile. Obviously they're both wider than the necks on my 330 or 360, but it's just a matter of getting used to something new. My 360 is o...

Three pickup Ricks are cool but not necessarily better: I had a GREAT 340 but I just found that the middle pickup got in my way. So I'd go with the 360. But that's entirely a personal preference issue. Just don't assume that the fancier or "more desirable" Rick is always better for you.

Well, that WOULD be a little off-topic in this thread.

We were lucky: a photographer friend of mine came by our last gig and took some action shots. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs424.snc3/24497_394467258512_116878218512_3878348_5984611_n.jpg http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs404.snc3/24497_394467283512_116878218512_3878352_7111107_n.jpg ht...

I'm interested.

It's old and uncommon, but something to think about: LAB Series L5. A great sounding amp, with a built-in compressor! I have one and I think it works really well with my 360 with Hi Gains.

As a very rough and general characterization, I would put Rick pickups somewhere on the continuum between Fender single coils and P-90s: not as bright and trebly as a Tele or Strat pickup, but not as much mid-range grunt as a P-90. Among Rick pickups, toasters are treblier and Hi-Gains are more midr...

From a search it looks like these kids have been mentioned here and there in other threads but I think they deserve their own. There are few things I love more than finding a great new band I didn't know about before, but it's been a while since that happened. Call me an old fart, but I had just abo...

I had heard of Rickenbackers from way back---probably due to the Beatles connection---but I didn't really focus on them until R.E.M. hit. There was a feature in Musician magazine about them, probably around the time of Reckoning or so, and I don't remember the title of the article (something about a...