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aceonbass wrote:A lot of Rick "aficionados" are just collectors anyway who can barely play the opening chord to A Hard Days Night.

Am I supposed to be able to play this on my basses?

Some worthy pictures here, including the spec sheet. Scroll down towards the bottom of Page 3.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/winter ... 853/page-3

cheyenne wrote:Some worthy pictures here, including the spec sheet. Scroll down towards the bottom of Page 3.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/winter ... 853/page-3

The black one's really beautiful. Almost makes me reconsider my old decision to never play 5 strings.

My wife has declared her support for the aesthetics. She's into vintage furniture and architecture and thinks the pickup design is very "space age".

clasbas wrote:Almost makes me reconsider my old decision to never play 5 strings.

If you listen to enough gospel music it's difficult to not get a bad case of GAS for a good B string.

Other than the pickups, are the electronics identical to those on a 4003?

cassius987 wrote:My wife has declared her support for the aesthetics. She's into vintage furniture and architecture and thinks the pickup design is very "space age".

Does that mean you got her support to buy one?

jps wrote:

cassius987 wrote:My wife has declared her support for the aesthetics. She's into vintage furniture and architecture and thinks the pickup design is very "space age".

Does that mean you got her support to buy one?

Actually yes! I'm lucky she's such a Ric fan. I think we both like the W...

Did anyone who checked these out at NAMM see if they have lightweight tuners or the normal Schaller tuners? Also, does anyone know if the pickups are RWRP/humbucking?

cassius987 wrote:

jps wrote:

cassius987 wrote:My wife has declared her support for the aesthetics. She's into vintage furniture and architecture and thinks the pickup design is very "space age".

Does that mean you got her support to buy one?

Actually yes! I'm lucky she's such a Ric fan. I think we both like the W...

Did anyone who checked these out at NAMM see if they have lightweight tuners or the normal Schaller tuners? Also, does anyone know if the pickups are RWRP/humbucking?

Same tuners as a 4003. The pickups are single coil.

By the way, the bass player for Mana, the most successful rock band ever in Latin America, played it today. He LOVED it!

Ben, what bugs have to be ironed out before these go to production?

berth wrote:

aceonbass wrote:A lot of Rick "aficionados" are just collectors anyway who can barely play the opening chord to A Hard Days Night.

Am I supposed to be able to play this on my basses?

Yes

The pick guard shape was lasered in house with the new neck pickup in mind, but that was using the pre-2015 double hump geometry for some reason. Don't worry, in production these will have the same non-hump pick guards as the 4 stringers. The nuts for these were also lasered out of black acrylic. They will instead be machined by our supplier like our other ones en masse.

These pickups are 3D printed. Once they are in mass production they will either be machined or cast like our other bobbins.

Here's a little noodling.

I am by no means a fan of 5 string basses. However, this one was very addictive. It was hard putting it down.

https://www.facebook.com/jmillard1/vide ... 321293622/

s4001 wrote:Here's a little noodling.

I am by no means a fan of 5 string basses. However, this one was very addictive. It was hard putting it down.

https://www.facebook.com/jmillard1/vide ... 321293622/

Sounds really terrific. The bridge pickup has a new tonal quality that I enjoy -- hint of Jazz Bass, but not full blown honk. Wish I heard more B string action on the video, though!

I'm a big fan of the current "S" aesthetic as opposed to triangles/binding. (But that's how I feel regardless.) The pickups look awesome as is.

I'm talking to my favorite dealer about what the next steps are.

The bridge pup has a lot of honk and sliding into the notes sounds really snarly.

I like the new pickups with the dot inlays, a perfect balance. If the neck had the deluxe inlays it would be to much, in my aesthetic mind.