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Thanks Rick. It's my first bass and because it's a Ric, I'm super paranoid about it.

Hi- So I have a 4001C64S. LOVE this bass. Such an awesome instrument. It's had rounds on it for the last 5 years. I gotta wild hair and decided to try Flats (TI JF344- yikes, pricey!). Changing the strings right now. All of my Rics have a lacquer (?) finish on the necks (I've gotta 360 12 and a 610 ...

The strings on the headstock aren't the reason I don't change them more.
It's the tailpiece bridge. It's really tough to get the nut of the string up into that and have it stay there, so I end up having to be a contortionist to do it. Beautiful guitars but the tail piece always trips me up at string ...

Okay- YES it was just a ******, old string.
The last time I changed strings on her has been a while.
Popped a new string on and it's fine now.
I need to change the rest of them, but have to find time when I have a few hours. That's not a quick string change for that guitar.

Thanks for your help ...

yeah, the string is easy enough to change.
I've just never seen anything like that and it seemed odd, so I asked.
Will give it a whirl and see what happens.

As far as I know, totally recent.
Yeah, I could just grab another.
Odd that it'd tune up correctly and not fret right though.

oops, missed the question, sorry about that.

I haven't changed anything on it as far as hardware, so I would imagine it's just the stock 6, even though it's a 12-string.
COULD it be just a bum string? Because these aren't the easiest strings to change, I do tend to leave them on
pretty long, but ...

Thanks for the reply. See that's the thing, the one G is fine. The higher one is flat...

Hi,
Just about to duck out the door to a gig.
I notice that when I tune my 12 string Ric with a tuner, it's great.
However, when I finger the G string, seemingly anywhere on the neck, the smaller of the two strings is flat.

if I raise the string, then it sounds funky on open chords. Never seen this ...

Thanks Jonathan!

Those strings seem hard to find- (musiciansfriend/AmericanMusicalSupply)

Hello-
I think this is my second post here- I have a 4001C64S C Series Bass (The story of how I acquired it is here on the forum somewhere actually). LOVE this instrument!

One thing I'm noticing is that my higher notes are getting a bit lost in the mix while the low strings just are HUGE (this is a ...

Oh, yeah, she's a keeper for sure. Having a wife that supports your music jones and also encourages it is pretty special. I get the bass back today from having it set up, so I'm really looking forward to playing it.

So, I came here looking for information on properly setting up a Ric bass. Imagine my surprise to read about my birthday experience!

Yeah, it was a bittersweet night and a complete surprise from my amazing wife. I've actually been posting over at the Rickenbacker "just basses" forum about the bass ...