What amp do you use with your Rics?

[harquahalas]

Awesome Brian,
I'm happy for you. I'm actually probably going to sell my Zinky 50W head and my Avatar 212 cab with Weber Alnicos (Silver Bell and Blue Dog) and get a custom color Zinky 25W combo. I talked to Bruce Zinky and found out I can get just the amount of clean head room with the 25W head by replacing the 12AX7 in the V1 position with a 12AT7. If you want to try it, you can take your 12AT7 out of the reverb slot (facing the back of your amp, it's the 4th tube from the right) and place it in the V1 slot (1st tube on the right). You won't have any reverb during this test, but you can A B it and see how much more clean head room you get. I tried it on my 50w and was blown away. Make sure you don't put anything but a 12AT7 in the reverb slot, but you can try 12AT7s in any and all of the 12AX7 slots. V1 makes the biggest difference though.

[ramonesfreak]

i use a DRRI, a TRRI, Vox AC15cc and an early 70's Kustom 50. The ric 330 6 and 12 sounds great through all of them. the twin is my favorite, followed by the Vox. ide love an AC30cc or just an Orange at some point. i like the mid control and bright switch on the twin and the deep bass it offers..goes well with toasters. very loud, clear and full sounding

[RonLovesRic12strings]

I also play my two RIC 12's through an early 1990's Fender Blues Deluxe Tweed...a very clean-sounding amp with very little backround noise. These amps were made in the USA, but I have never compared it to the newer MIM reissues.

I plug my 370/12 RM first into a Boss NS-2 Noise suppressor (this blocks out most of the extraneous noise from the built-in compressor), then into the amp. I set the guitar tone control knob to #6 position (fully clockwise position), which gives great treble boost plus compression.......this results in a dialed-in Beatle, Byrds, Petty jangle with loads of clarity and sustain.

I plug my 360/12V64 into a POD 2.0, then into the amp. I use the POD in "Manual" mode, select "Brit Classic" and select "Compressor" (set at 7 or . Play with the other manual settings on the POD to dial in your preferred, overall sound.

[dswp]

I do not play guitar out professionally, however I have been loving this set up.

After talking about vintage fender amps and all of Hendrix's amp configurations for a week Downunder, I have been stoked on vintage amps as of late.

[rick_ovic]

I'll take the Fender Vibratone cabinet, Dave. Put it in the mail to me, will you?

I'm using a '66 blackface Fender Super Reverb and a '64 Selmer Thunderbird Twin Thirty. I haven't yet hooked them up in stereo with a Rickenbacker. I'm afraid I might cause a tear in the fabric of the galaxy if I fired 'em all together!

[sloop_john_b]

DAVE!!! When did you get the Vibratone?! I'll be there in two hours!

[dswp]

DAVE!!! When did you get the Vibratone?! I'll be there in two hours!

You do really need to hear it in person. Recordings of it do not reproduce the tone and "vibro" effect.

[kieran campbell]

Well I have a Vox Ac30tb for my 335,that is if your looking for the beatley sound.But I just love Voxamps

[IHeartRics]

I use 50 watt Hiwatts. I have both a half stack and a bulldog combo. Loud and aggressive!

[1965]

I'm using a '66 blackface Fender Super Reverb and a '64 Selmer Thunderbird Twin Thirty.

Excuse me, sir. I believe your AC30 is upside down

[chuck_king]

I had an amazing amp/Rick epiphany just the other day, which has put me in a quandry.

Back in October I came across an unusual amp on craigslist: a Univox U200L rig, which included the U200L amp head and two U610 cabinets, which as the name suggests are 6x10 cabinets. It was in nice shape, and it was the full rig---I'd hate to try to put one together a piece at a time; it would be almost impossible.

But interesting as it was, besides being physically big, it wasn't in much danger of supplanting any of my other amps as a real player. It just didn't sound that magical. The cabinets were GREAT, but the amp itself seemed sort of lackluster. It's a pretty bare-bones solid state amp---two channels, with reverb on one and a master volume. So, for the most part it just sat against the wall, gathering dust, while I played through my JC-120 or something else smaller and more versatile.

Anyway, a few days ago I pulled it up out of the basement, with the intention of cleaning it up and putting it back on craigslist for sale. I plugged it in and hooked it up, just to make sure everything was still working, and it was, and it sounded much as I remembered it. But then...

By coincidence my 660/12 was nearby---I had just re-strung it and plugged into the Univox just for giggles. And THERE, ladies and gentlemen, was THE SOUND. I have noted before that certain amps seem to work better with certain guitars, and apparently I had just not tried the right guitar through that Univox, because while it had not done much of note with other guitars, when I played the 660/12 through it, it really came to life, and vice versa. I tried my 330/6 through it and it was okay, but not the magical sound that the 660 gave it. Maybe it's the extra strings, maybe it's the toasters vs. the Hi-Gains, maybe it's the solid body vs. the semi-hollowbody, but something about that specific guitar works really well with that amp.

So now I'm torn. I play the 12-string on at most two or three songs out of my band's repertoire, and don't really do much recording, so do I keep this big amp that's not really that useful for much else, in the interest of having a really great 12-string sound every once in a while? It's impractical, but it does sound really, really nice.