Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Hey, it's cool. You do what you have to to find the instrument that works for you. It's not going to be a Ric for everyone, and there's also the chance you ran across a lemon. Also, there's really no reason to believe that all fakers are bad players. Some might be quite good, so if one falls in ...

I bought one.. Its awesome, sounds amazing and plays beautifully..
My Ric is on Ebay..

What can I say?

Check the Bass centre here in Melbourne, they had a whole bunch of Ashdown cabs they got very cheap, even inc. shipping it may save you a bundle, not sure what they have left though.

headbanger wrote:Any room for Sandgropers?

Pencil me in, other commitments notwithstanding.

Escape while ya still can man!! I did and never looked back!!

Nah its general.. I don't think there is anything WRONG with the pickups.. I suspect its just a general 'thats just how it is' thing.. Put it this way, the guys I play with have an '04 4003, the neck pickup sounds almost identical to mine (the bridge on theirs is an EMG), I think its just an ...

tmossman wrote:New RIC hi-gains with adjustable poles.

Ah.. interesting.. when did they become adjustable?! I assumed they were all 'mushrooms'.

Pots all work ok, using d'addario rounds..

Since my last thread was deleted... (guys if you're gonna delete threads.. you should explain why.. I have NO idea what it was that caused offense..*shrug* )

Ok, I'm not thrilled with the sound of my '03 4003.. I love the way it plays.. but I'm not big on the sound, its muffled and lacks definition ...

Ok.. so I did some comparisons last night.. in my mind I was thinking 'oh the Ric has very hot pickups'..

So, back to back I played my 4003, my Japanese copy and my 59RI PBass.

The Pbass surprisingly was by far the hottest of the lot, I mean I had to turn the volume down on the amp, wasn't ...

Guess my experience wasn't worth much then..

Lets see.. 20 guitars from Japan over the last 3 years.. oh well... online and in shop..

:lol:

Its not the mute pad!! (yes I checked!!)
I played around with it yesterday, raising and lowering the pickups.. Its as simple as the pickups are just very very hot from what I can tell, lowering them just makes em muddy, it sounds ok, but I'm seriously thinking of putting the toaster in from ...

In my opinion 2000 -2005 werent all that great . Ive had every one of these years and hated the big fat neck and big fat tone . A toaster in front will dampen the lows a touch . They tend to have an airey mid tone and about half the output of the 4003 high gain. I always put 4001 pickups in the ...

Ok.. So a while back I picked up a cheap 70s Japanese 4003 copy.. I love it, sounds great etc etc..

well I thought.. if the copy is this good the real deals gonna kick arse.. so I picked up a minty midnight blue 2003 4003..

And its nice .. but.. it... well.. sounds rubbish.. I've tried raising the ...

I believe GFS may have been making some toaster lookalikes, but I'm sure that RIC has long since put the kibosh on that.

The GFS replacements only have the same footprint, not the 'toaster' look, at least in this ad on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/GFS-NYII-Top-Mount-WHITE-fit-Dearmond-Alnico-Bridge ...

Thanks guys, I hit the 2003.. its midnight blue anyway, so 'wings' are no issue!

Ironically it will be here in 4 days, but customs and easter holidays means I prob wont see it for 3-4 weeks

ozover50 wrote:Us Melbournians would love to see it at our next gathering, Russ........ 'in the flesh' as it were!!

When do you guys have get togethers?