Two Weeks with My Rick...

highway_star · Post by **highway_star** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:46 am

An I still love it! The neck has not been a problem for me and now that I'm finding some amps I like, I'm really starting to appreciate the variety of tones I can get of it. Now all I need to do is decide between a Mesa, Ashdown or Ampeg amp and I'll be set.

Oh yeah, it would help to work on my chops for a while and learn some new material, but that's trivial stuff

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jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:15 am

Ric necks are the best ... in combination with the pickups it is a top notch bass ...

there is a down side ... ric-o-sound and the mechanical mute ...

I prefer 2 mono outputs and no ric-o-sound and the suprestructure above the mute makes palm muting almost impossible ... both of these features are so obsolete ...

as per chops ... play every day ... you will get better ...

all 3 of those amps will work ... I think mesa is overpriced ...

loendmaestro · Post by **loendmaestro** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:22 am

I still find a certain charm to the Rick O Sound function. Through two amps it's actually a blast.
Distort/effect your highs & keep the lows pure...

Even my drummer likes it!

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:41 am

I love my Ric-O-Sound, and played through an older Ampeg (1969-B-25) with two seperate input channels I can really get some wonderful tones from my 4003.

I've only tried my v63 briefly through my Ampeg, and there I split the mono output into the two channels, the initial impression was "Holy Cr&p I've died and gone to Rick'n-halla" !!

Unfortunatley on the initial move to Canada I had to make some tough choices, clothes, or my big rig, clothes won this time.

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:44 am

so where's the big rig? is this a permanent move or are you coming back to the states for a time? maybe back to the homeland??

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:47 am

Not going back on a permenant basis to Scotland. My big rig is safe and sound in it's raod cases stored in a good friends house in CA.

It's for now a permenant move, I'm hoping to have it shipped here in the new years.

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 8:18 am

was this a job move???

thx1955 · Post by **thx1955** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:27 pm

Yes ... the veritable "Offer I couldn't refuse"

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:51 am

Glen - what part of the "Great White North" are you moving to?