Rick Bass switch

[wings012345]

Can someone explain what pickups the toggle (down-center- up) switch is suppose to control in the Rick -O - Sound jack and then the Stnadard Jack. Not sure mine is wired correctly. 79 rick

Thanks

[rickfan60]

The ROS jack is stereo and requires a stereo cable with a splitter to work properly. As for the switch, normally the up position is the neck pickup, middle is both and down is treble.

[cjj]

In Ric-O Sound mode, each pickup goes out on it's own "channel" of the stereo plug. So, the switch will turn off the output to the pickup that is not selected. Up will give you the neck pickup only, nothing on the other side, middle will give you both, down will give you only the bridge pickup channel.

In standard mode, the pickups are output on the same (single) channel. So, the switch will select which pickup gets sent out. Up will be neck, middle is both, down is bridge.

[pflash4001]

This may be an asinine question, but do you NEED the Ric-o-sound box to utilize the feature? Can I do the same with any other stereo cables? If so, what kind of cables would I need? Thanks for your information, guys!

[tennis_nick]

This may be an asinine question, but do you NEED the Ric-o-sound box to utilize the feature? Can I do the same with any other stereo cables? If so, what kind of cables would I need? Thanks for your information, guys!

The same results can be achieved by running a stereo lead that splits into 2 mono leads.

[cjj]

This may be an asinine question, but do you NEED the Ric-o-sound box to utilize the feature? Can I do the same with any other stereo cables? If so, what kind of cables would I need? Thanks for your information, guys!

The same results can be achieved by running a stereo lead that splits into 2 mono leads.

Yup, and that's what most people do, which is pretty much why RIC quit making the Ric-O-Sound box. Good quality Y cables are readily available these days. All Ric-O-Sound is doing is sending each pickup over its own "channel" of the stereo cable. So, you either need a stereo amp with a stereo input plug (not easy to find) or a Y splitter adapter and either a dual channel amp or two separate amps.