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Thanks for sharing your preferences, Dean.

Cheers!
John

My main setting is both pickups on, and everything but the bass tone wide open. I dial back the bass tone about a third of the way. If I want a more boomy/thumpy vintage tone, I'll solo the neck pup, and maybe dial back the tone even more. That's about it! Have fun.

I used my fretted 4003 today at rehearsal; through an Ampeg SVT head and some kind of large Ampeg cabinet. Since I'll never have the coin to get one, I didn't spend any time figuring out what it was...I used my newly-found "roll off the neck pickup 5-10%" and the whole thing just sounded so wonderfully filthy. We were working on a very hard rocking funky tune and it all just sounded so good. Nasty, but great.

Awesome, John. I too was at rehearsal today--enjoying a few different tones out of my Ric. I still really favor the tone you describe above. Rock on, brother!

FretlessOnly wrote:I used my fretted 4003 today at rehearsal; through an Ampeg SVT head and some kind of large Ampeg cabinet. Since I'll never have the coin to get one, I didn't spend any time figuring out what it was...I used my newly-found "roll off the neck pickup 5-10%" and the whole thing just sounded so wonderfully filthy. We were working on a very hard rocking funky tune and it all just sounded so good. Nasty, but great.

You better change your user name to UsedToBeFretlessOnly.

jps wrote:

FretlessOnly wrote:I used my fretted 4003 today at rehearsal;...I used my newly-found "roll off the neck pickup 5-10%" and the whole thing just sounded so wonderfully filthy. We were working on a very hard rocking funky tune and it all just sounded so good. Nasty, but great.

You better change your user name to UsedToBeFretlessOnly.

Perhaps something like, "Fretless Mostly?"

I hear ya! Having been fretless only for 24 years (until Jan 28 when my 4003 arrived), I feel like I'm cheating on a long-time girlfriend.

I prefer to take full advantage of the Rick-O-Sound jack of my customized 4003/8. The stock bridge higain is full volume, tone all the way up with the bass cut capacitor engaged going to an SWR IOD (full distortion, flat eq). The neck HB1 is full volume, tone all the way down going to an Ampeg SVPCL;(master volume, bass, and the lowest mid setting all the way up; treble at zero with the gain used as a volume control). I've been using a Peavey Valverb in the effects loop of the IOD and a dbx Subharmonic Synth after both preamps with the crossover function splitting the lows and highs into their own tube power amps.