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My e!ectronic challenged bass was a factory new 2014 4003. Love the way it plays, but very frustrating, low output, more muddy, neck pu occasionally shorted, output jack occasionally shorted. I bought one of Danes harnesses and a second pickguard so I could swap. Measurable improvement.

I'm in ...

I just recently replaced all my 2016 4003 electronics (due to the noise) with:

HB1's in neck and bridge.

New CTS 500k pots and .022uf orange drop cap harness with one mono jack, one dummy jack, and now I have a one volume, one selector, one tone control setup.

Sounds just like it did before but ...

In that case, there IS a problem in the wiring, or it can be as simple as the mono jack binding in the channel it sits in, causing a short. I wish RIC would either do away with ROS altogether, or use a pair of stereo jacks in parallel and a push-pull pot that switches from mono to stereo, an option ...

The ROS (stereo) output doesn't separate treble from bass frequencies. It separates the treble (bridge) pickup signal from the bass (neck) pickup signal. There really isn't much signal bleed because the bass is actually wired in stereo with a mono shorting jack that shunts both pickups together ...

Hi,

This spring I purchased a late-2016 Rickenbacker 4003 . I love the thing but I have some questions about/issues with the performance of the bass' electronics.

1) The hum is insane. To the point that the sustain is overcome by hum if I use any gainy effects pedals. I have settled on replacing ...