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hello Erik... what is the .0041 cap?

I see.... I was wrong..... sorry

Hello.... I have two 480's from 1973 (January and March). Both have the original transitional hi-gain pickups and I found sound diferences between both guitars.

In my newie and profane words, the January guitar has a deep and crisp sound...It's very vibrant with a long sustain. The march guitar is ...

I found this: http://rickenbacker.us/3-vintage-hi-gai ... -320/19768


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Ok...thanks to both for the answers.... May be the precise question I have is if the 620 pickups (from a new guitar) are identical to a 480 hi-gain pickups (from 1973)....

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Has anyone here any idea about the sound diferences between both guitars? Has the 480 the same 620 high gain mics?

Thanks in advance

You can't compare that way. Some years the numbers did not recycle, other years they did, and some years they were recycled each month or at least more than once in the year. You also have to consider that amp serial numbers were in the mix there too during some of those years.

Without doing some ...

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I was giving a detailed look to the Rickenbacker Register and checking the way Ric Co. used the serials in his products (guitars an basses). Checkink here and there -between 1973 and 1984- I believe this was, in a very aproximated way, the "total" producction of both instruments year by year: around ...