4004Cii

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:30 am

She’s beautiful Jeffrey!
Did she arrive yet? I suspect the neck has a finish on it like mine. Let us know what you think!

cheers

dano · Post by **dano** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 5:55 am

Thanks Jeffrey,

She is one gorgeous babe!

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 6:39 am

I don't expect to see her till Tuesday or Wednesday. It seems to have a satin finish on it and I am not sure about the neck being finished, but yeah, she is very pretty with nice flame in the body front and back. I am already contemplating whether to put the two scatterwounds I have in her but I will wait to hear it compared to my 4001 and 4005 WB. Afterwards I will also decide if I will rewire it with two volume controls or VVT replacing the switch (I don't use the tone control).

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 7:43 am

Wow Jeffrey, I’d be real interested to know if your bass actually had a satin finish on it and I’d be real surprised too being they (your bass and mine) came from the same production run. Please keep me posted on this one. I’ve thought about putting toasters on mine. Just recently put one in my 4003. It sounds great particularly with the high gain treble PU. I assuming that it’s basically a drop – no?

Let us know what you do with her!

cheers

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:15 am

It should just be a drop-in as they are basically the same pickup housing. My '73 4001 has the toaster with the 1/2 inch spacing to the neck and a high gain treble pickup and it sounds great together. I added the "vintage" switch to choose between the capacitor and a wire for the high gain pickup. I also changed to a VVT setup, and I have a dual mono output since this is no longer stereo. I have a lot of different sound choices with these mods, of course this was done on a new pickguard from Pickguardian so at any time I can put the original setup back in place.

jeff_ulmer · Post by **jeff_ulmer** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 9:18 am

From the pics, Jeffrey's sure looks like the satin finish on mine. It would be interesting to compare serial numbers between yours and Andy's, and anyone else who gets one soon.

ken_james · Post by **ken_james** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:22 am

So who's got a red or green one in stock?

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:27 am

Great looking bass Jeff, I like your idea about the 2 vol controls, I'm thinking of trying this. I wonder if the 3 position switch could be wired to do a gradual rolloff on the high end? Sort of like a 3 preset tone control switch ???? Anyone?

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:36 am

I'm pretty sure Mike Parks has a green one in stock!!!

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 10:40 am

Scott,

It depends on the way the switch works, but my guess is that at least you shoud be able to wire it up to give one roll-off setting.

jeff_ulmer · Post by **jeff_ulmer** » Sat Oct 18, 2003 12:41 pm

The switch should be just a regular three way, with two independent options and a combined, which would mean only 2 choices, since both the middle and roll off position would do the same thing electronically. You could always get a different switch that had three separate pole positions though, which would allow the normal sound plus two variations.

big_g · Post by **big_g** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 8:26 am

I would like it better with the switch replaced with a detent pot for pickup panning. It would be volume, tone and pan. Seems like it would give the player more variations in tone, and remain a simple control layout.

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:37 pm

Totally agreed.

And how about making the volume pot a push-pull coil tapper for the neck PU and the tone pot a push-pull .0047 capper...for ultimate versatility?

Maybe I'm just crazy.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:51 pm

If I ever get a 4004Cii5, I fully intend on replacing the p/u selector switch with a pan pot.

Hey Paul, I'm crazy too !.... there's nothing wrong with that........I think ?

paul_yan · Post by **paul_yan** » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:57 pm

He ain't crazy, he's my (Ricken) brother, haha!