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GAS is setting in. Never played a C64...what's the tone versus 4003?
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beacon wrote:GAS is setting in. Never played a C64...what's the tone versus 4003?
Better. Does this help your GAS, at all? :wink:
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jps wrote:
beacon wrote:GAS is setting in. Never played a C64...what's the tone versus 4003?
Better. Does this help your GAS, at all? :wink:

Oh dear....must do the math. C64+shipping+divorce attorney= :o
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beacon wrote:
jps wrote:
beacon wrote:GAS is setting in. Never played a C64...what's the tone versus 4003?
Better. Does this help your GAS, at all? :wink:

Oh dear....must do the math. C64+shipping+divorce attorney= :o
I know a good attorney. :mrgreen:
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So,, any pics of the TV yellow yet?
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cheyenne wrote:So,, any pics of the TV yellow yet?
Nothing yet. Should be any day now.

I predict brushed chrome pickguard and TRC . . .
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beacon wrote:GAS is setting in. Never played a C64...what's the tone versus 4003?
A C64 has A LOT of midrange growl and bite, a good bit of top end, and little less boom on the bottom compared to a 4003. Mine has a push/pull pot to take the cap out of the circuit. It has low end in spades with the cap out.

They're both good tones, just different.
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IME the C64 is much more vintage-sounding. The one I tried was much more like my main '72 tonally, that kind of growly-but-hollow late-60s / early-70s thing. Lets put it this way; it did the CS tone better than either of my CSs. I tried a new 4003 alongside it and for me the C was a clear winner. Of course YMMV and of course every single C64 and every single 4003 will be somewhat different.
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I assume then, from some of the coments here, that even the newer c64s did not come with the push-pull from the factory as the newer 4003s do.....
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beacon wrote:I assume then, from some of the coments here, that even the newer c64s did not come with the push-pull from the factory as the newer 4003s do.....
They don't.
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Correct, the C64 has never had the push/pull vintage tone circuit as a stock feature. It's a great mod to make, though.

Just be warned if you choose to do it that it will change the way the pickups interact with each other. With the cap out, the RIHS will overpower the toaster, the end result being that the toaster will effectively only have one volume level. It will be the same volume from 0-9 and actually slightly quieter at 10.
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cheyenne wrote:So,, any pics of the TV yellow yet?
8)
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coolingitdown wrote:Correct, the C64 has never had the push/pull vintage tone circuit as a stock feature. It's a great mod to make, though.

Just be warned if you choose to do it that it will change the way the pickups interact with each other. With the cap out, the RIHS will overpower the toaster, the end result being that the toaster will effectively only have one volume level. It will be the same volume from 0-9 and actually slightly quieter at 10.
Just to clarify: cap in, the bass will function as stock, both volumes working. 8)
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Re: 4001 c64 White

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I think the white is quite nice, by far the best of these 3 new colours. The green and yellow are a bit too skater boy for me :lol:
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