Who's a fan of Rick O Sound?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 6:05 pm

stereo on a bass or guitar is pretty much an obsolete concept ... 1 or 2 or 3 mono signals will do the job ...

hieronymous · Post by **hieronymous** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:54 pm

I still maintain that the sound of both pickups of a 4001/4003 full on is one of the best sounds ever. And you can't get that if you're running the pickups separately. An A/B type of splitter box seems a lot more versatile to me...

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:35 am

I prefer the sound of 2 4003 pickups with everything opened up to 10 but the neck volume backed off to 8 ... and run mono ...

david_schwab · Post by **david_schwab** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:52 am

I used to run my 4001 in stereo. I used a stereo Y cord instead of the Rick-O-Sound box. I then ran each pickup into a 10-band EQ and then to a small battery powered 2 channel mixer I made, to blend the signal back to mono, and then to my amp.

Back when I was a big Yes head, I had my Maestro Bass Brassmaster, and ran that on just the treble pickup, like Squire did. I also ran the neck pickup through an Electro Harmonics Mole bass booster.

In the 80's I just ran it in mono.

Jeff the idea of stereo guitars is for more tone shaping options, and as such they aren't really stereo, just multichannel. A true stereo guitar or bass would have it's strings panned from left to right as you went across.

I had a stereo Vox Phantom XII that had three split pickups, with each half being assigned to the left or right channel.. that was more of a stereo guitar than a Rick (Or the stereo Gibson's)

Alembic still makes "stereo" basses, like the Stanley Clarke model. Stan uses his with two amps.

bassman_bob · Post by **bassman_bob** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:50 am

IMHO, the heads we have to choose from today are so much more powerful and versatile that ROS isn't needed. I (finally) found the Holy Grail sound on my '74 this past weekend using a Behringer head of all things and just going slowly thru the EQ and "Shape"; been at it for weeks and there it was, growl, bell/piano ringing sustain. Then again the Behringer knobs turn so easily if I sneeze I'll lose it !