Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

The neck pickup on my 360/6 with hi-gains is very bassy, almost muffled at times. I've read several other threads where this was mentioned as well. Anything I can do to brighten the tone a bit, other than a swap for a toaster?

In some cases lowering the pickup results in a clearer, less bass-y/muffled sound.

A toaster will help some, but I recall reading about folks putting a.0047 cap in series with the neck pickup to tame the mud. I may try that someday on my 660/12 as I do find the neck toaster a bit heavy sounding; currently I just roll it back some and that works well, too.

Thanks guys. I lowered the pickup a little, but there's not really much in the way of adjustment anyway. I may try the cap...

Tell us how it works out if you do it

I would always blend a little from my rear pickup when using the neck pu on my 610 to avoid that. My 360V64 never had that problem, the neck pickup was perfect in tonal character IMO. I would try the toaster if still not happy with the cap.

My 330 arrived (used) with that cap mod, actually. I liked the sound of the neck hi-gain with the cap - it's somehow sweeter. I think of it as having a 'honey tone' but I'm not sure why, exactly. But more than one friend of mine used the word honey to describe the sound, which is interesting. I took the cap out a while back, and now it's definitely bassier, but it still sounds good to me. My 330 is now back to basically stock, but it's an easy mod to put back and sometimes I think about doing just that.

Sean: You can also try a fix mentioned here.