Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

I got my 4001 in 1978. I was never totally happy with the pickups and eventually changed them to the horse shoe and toaster pups.


Lately I've noticed a hard and unpleasant very metal clank in all pup positions.

I love the normal growl and clank, but this isn't it.

Any ideas of what I'm dealing with? The horse shoe and toaster pups are about 5 years old, and the output is good.

Strings hitting pickups perhaps? Maybe you need a truss rod or action adjustment.

blueflamerick wrote:Strings hitting pickups perhaps? Maybe you need a truss rod or action adjustment.

+1

I was thinking along those lines, that the neck may need an adjustment, but in the aspect that the clank might be from a string hitting a now-high fret.

Thanks, guys. I'm going to take it in for a setup. It's been due one for a long time. I'll post the results of the setup.

ch willie wrote:Thanks, guys. I'm going to take it in for a setup. It's been due one for a long time. I'll post the results of the setup.

William thanks for your good question. Please let us know how things turn out.
There are some who go for the metal clank believe it or not.
The title of this thread would make for a pretty good band name.

Guys, I don't know what the tech does, but my Ric sounds better than it ever has. I spent an hour playing it a 3am this morning.

I don't know what was causing the clank but it's gone and is replaced with the right kind of clank.

Anyway, I'm soooo happy because I was worried that something had gone wrong in the pickups.