Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 12:52 am
Hey, Bob, you are right: the bass neck on my 1979 4080 is indeed both bolt on and set, unlike the 6 string one which is only bolt on and hence removable.
I was a little bummed at my gig last night-the sound guy set up his split box for micing the bass (not sure why he can't us the DI on my amp) and the Rick made a horrific buzz. It sounded fine just going through the amp, and did so at the end of the gig when I tested the bass just through the rig...
I ended up playing my fretless J for about 2/3 of the show, until I broke a D and had to deal with the Rick...but everyone said the Rick sounded far better than the J...even with what I thought was a nasty buzzing.
I have had issues with the output jack, but they've been doing a lot better. The odd thing was that I could play over the buzz, when before when my standard output was fritzing I could not create a note...another oddity was that the buzzing would get worse when I turned the volume down on the guitars (both of them)...I had to turn the main of the Amp down to hide the buzz between songs, so that tells me the issue was in the Amp and this output splitter box thing. I had used it before with no issues, however, about a month ago...so I'm stumped.
My guitarist was saying after we were done "tell anyone who tells you that Ricks can't generate a deep bottom end that they're full of ****!".
