1) You'd have to check both pickups.nukebass wrote:I looked at the pickup last night and couldn't see anything (just a few wires running into the pickup). The colors in the control cavity were connected correctly according to the diagram (red to the switch and blue to the ground). I called customer service today and I can start the return proceedings once they receive my warranty card. I got the impression that it wouldn't be a big deal at all to return it for repair. That's good.
After looking at the diagram, I'm trying to figure out what it means to be reversed polarity and, more importantly, what the diagram really means. The way I'm reading it, there are two coils in the humbucker (which makes sense), but it looks like only one provides output, the inside of the top coil (the red wire). If the leads are swapped, then I'm getting one inside from the top coil and one inside from the bottom (essentially one red and one blue)?
I did get to play it last night at our church band practice and the bass is awesome. I think I will primarily use the treble pickup on this one because the pickup still puts out a good bit of bass. The body contours make it the most comfortable I've ever played and the relatively light weight is certainly a bonus. After playing it for a couple of hours for just one night, I have no idea why this series isn't more popular.
2) The two windings are in series - i.e. the coil flow is red inside to black outside to clear outside to blue inside. Thus they are in series but reversed to cancel hum (outside to inside). You are looking to make sure BOTH pickups have the 4 wires to the coil circuit board connections with the same wire in the same holes, then also the black and clear together at the other end of the coax with the same color to ground and the same color to the switch. If they are different at the circuit board or the red and blue reversed on one pup, you would be out of phase.
3) That is the reaction of any Rick owner who tries a 4004 onstage.
Tomorrow is another day. 
