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I use the ROS jack to kinda get the sound. It's only half of it but that's why I bought the bass.
I use the normal jack for non Rush stuff... and I don't have my non Rush CDs here. I use it alot more with my Pink Floyd, Beatles, McCartney, and soon to be Sabbath and Zeppelin CDs.

using that jack doesnt give you a different sound.

It uses a STEREO jack cable and puts the bridge pickup on one channel and the neck on the other.

The neck pickup gives you bass, the brridge only treble....and you must have 2 amps. Unless you have 2 amps, and a ric o sound splitter box, you cant use ric o sound. Just plug into the standard jack and get either or both pickups.

Hmmm. First time I plugged it in I had BIG beefy sound and in the other the sound I was looking for. So they don't have different sounds? Well that helps... I have my hand over the neck pickup alot, heh.

Nate, it works like this:

USING THE STANDARD JACK:

Switch in middle = both pickups

switch up= neck pickup only

switch down = bridge pickup only (sounds like a twang, has no bass to it)

USING RIC O SOUND JACK:

You only get the bridge pickup. cant get the neck pickup- flipping switch up leaves a silence.

USING RIC O SOUND JACK WITH STEREO SPLITTER INTO 2 AMPS:

switch in middle = both pickups on (both amps)

switch up = Only the "left" amp on

switch down = Only the "right" amp on


hope that helps!

Wow.... you learn something everyday!

Bob, I agree on the "Brown Eyed Girl" bassline being a good one. There's a reason it fills the dance floor night after night, and its that great bassline. I was just joking about that being enough to maintain a players callouses; lord knows I've played it hundreds of times!

Oh, I didn't get it. Lol.

Nate, with both volumes on full you'll have that big beefy sound in the mono jack, just back off the bass volume, the more you back it off the more treble you'll get with treble volume on full, if you shut it off all together it will sound just like the ric-o-sound jack (the way you use it, haha!) Maybe you'll like keeping the cap then if you like that sound, some people here do.

Oh I know people get sick of playing that song, I did too until I really listened to it and realized how good he was and played it correctly, it's really hooky.

Great, now I'm gonna be made fun of for a LOOOOONG time.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=bass/search/detail/base_pid/480675/

This any good to use the ROS jack the right way?

thats just an amp Nate, to use it you need TWO amps, a ROS box /stereo lead and two normal guitar leads

Ok so two of those then...

Now I feel like an idiot. DUH!!!!
At least you guys are here to TEACH!
I have two mono cables. Those, the ROS box and two amps will make it work then?

or just use your mono out into one good amp ...

That amp good enough? It would save me $275. $200 to get another amp and $75 for the ROS box.

those are good little practice amps ...