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I' so pleased that RIC make their basses so well!!!
Last night at band practice, my foot got caught in a cable and I pulled my 4003 off the stand. It fell face down, full force.
S**t!!! Pulled her off the floor, checked for damage. None!
Played her and she hadn't even gone out of tune. QUALITY!!! LOL!

Glad it's OK but time for a wireless.

A similar thing happened to my '76 4000, a drunk stepped on the lower support of my old Hamilton stand & the bass did a faceplant onto a plywood stage & it didn't even go out of tune!
Needless to say I don't ever use that stand any more!

My 68 has taken that fall numerous times. It even violently went thru the Northridge quake. I still don't need to intonate it. I don't even know if the trussrods work because I never need to touch them.

Fess up, John. You used graphite back in the 60's.

I lost a Yamaha that way. Cracked the neck from the tuning pegs to the neck joint.

"Glad it's OK but time for a wireless."

Nah, just lose the feet!

During a video shoot, a cameraman and his cable got caught on my '79 and it came crashing down from the stand. The only damage was the edge of the nut cracked off and shot across the studio. We found it and super-glued it on. Otherwise not a scratch. Still works to this day.

Yeah I WAS lucky. Wouldn't touch a wireless with a barge pole. Not on a Rick. I want signal integrity. Plus having a cable is old school!! Ha ha ha!!

You did get lucky. A friend of mine had his v63 fall face-down from a stand to the stage, and the body wings started to separate. Be careful! And a wireless isn't a bad idea.

A drunk gets anywhere near the guitars/keys/drums/horns I'm on it. I've tossed more than one off the stage in the past.

Of course being 6'4 260 helps.

With wireless you get what you pay for. If you like a tether more power to ya.

Only cable is "vintage"!
With the wireless I always had the feeling of unwanted compression, but Brian may be right: not enough dough to buy the real prof stuff.

To run Rick-O-Sound you need two channels in the wireless rig anyway. I always run stereo Rick-O-Sound in every Rick bass I have with more than one pickup - even if the bass was not designed to be stereo

Good ones aren't too expensive. My used Shure ULXS was $600-ish. I hear no difference between it and a good quality cable. Having the wireless is one reason why I split my signal at the amp instead of at the bass. I never quite got the advantage of splitting the p/u's.....I've done it but it just never clicked for me. I prefer the combined p/u signal split into dirty and clean channels at my stereo amp. Plus less cable shananigans.

"Only cable is "vintage"!"

Actually, I think wireless has been around since the '60s if not earlier.