Rickenbacker 330/360 Sounds

[profjeff]

Hi Folks:

Here are some new audio clips featuring my venerable Rickenbacker 360/12. The guitar is only a few months old and it is all stock with high gain pickups. In these clips it is routed through a Sabine Compressor, then into a Trace Eliott Acoustic 7 band EQ. The EQ is set in a soft “V” shape where the middle frequencies are rolled off just slightly. I also engaged the Preshape #1 on the EQ.

I used input #2 (lower level) on my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp which is loaded with a Celestion Vintage 30 speaker. The settings on the amp are as follows:

Channel: #1, clean
Bright switch: engaged
Volume: 4
Treble: 8
Bass: 6
Middle: 4
Reverb: 1.5
Presence: 6

Clip # 1: Both pickups are on. The settings on both the bridge and neck pickups are just slightly below full volume; the tone controls on both are up about 3/4 of the way. The fifth knob is tilted just slightly toward the neck pickup.

Clip # 2: Treble pickup only. Both volume and tone are set about 7/8 of the way up. The fifth knob is in the middle.

Clip #3: Neck pickup only. Same settings as described for clip #2. Compressor is bypassed in this sample.

Clip #4. Same settings as Clip #1. Guitar is routed through an Ibanez Tube Screamer, TS9 DX pedal with the tone and output levels set at 12:00. The drive is up all the way, and I used the + setting.

I used two AKG C5900 condenser microphones--one placed about 2” from the grill cloth just above the center of the V-30, and the other one about four feet away from the amp. I routed the mics through my Digi 001 and added a slight amount of compression in ProTools and a VERY slight amount of reverb to compensate for the shortcomings of the MP3 format.

Again, I think that these clips demonstrate the versatility of the 360/12 Check out the high gain pickups through the Tube Screamer! Let me know what you think.n Each clip is about 750KB.

http://www.coe.unco.edu/jeffbauer/ric/ric12a.mp3
http://www.coe.unco.edu/jeffbauer/ric/ric12b.mp3
http://www.coe.unco.edu/jeffbauer/ric/ric12c.mp3
http://www.coe.unco.edu/jeffbauer/ric/ric12d.mp3

--jeff

[jwilli]

Jeff, sounded great! You're right, the Rick 12 is very versatile.