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When were the caps taken out of the 4003's?

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:37 pm
by jazzstick
I want a rick with the vintage tone and I dont really want a newer ric. So when were the caps removed?

Thanks

jazzstick

Re: When were the caps taken out of the 4003's?

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:42 pm
by rickenbrother
It think it was sometime in '84, maybe '85.

Re: When were the caps taken out of the 4003's?

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:04 pm
by jwr2
adding or removing a .0047 capacitor to a 4001/4003 bass is very easy ...

Part of the vintage sound was the 500k ohm tone capacitors in the pre 1990 basses ...