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gallo's only buying beans and velenos i think.

if i get a ric, i'm surely going to remove the bridge mute, and pickup cover.

So why the 4003 over the 4001?

Ryan Owens wrote:So why the 4003 over the 4001?

Sounds bigger and better. Still definitely a Rick bass, but with more weight and character.

Same answer to the question "why get a G&L when you can still buy a Fender?" Because because of design improvements by the man who actually designed it in the first place, a G&L is a fundamentally physically better instrument.

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johnnyshape wrote:

Ryan Owens wrote:So why the 4003 over the 4001?

Sounds bigger and better. Still definitely a Rick bass, but with more weight and character.

Same answer to the question "why get a G&L when you can still buy a Fender?" Because because of design improvements by the man who actually designed it in the first place, a G&L is a fundamentally physically better instrument.

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fyp.

BadComrade wrote:

eliya wrote:I always find ricks too thin, they never had enough lows.

There's a capacitor in a Ric that you can remove to give it a shit ton of low end.

But then you just have a silly looking P Bass.

hmm wasn't thinking of that. good point.

sell your egc and buy Enormous's. Maybe you'll like it better.
and what is it exactly that you don't like in your EGC? I'm not asking to criticize and be a dick, just out of curiosity.

oh wait, you're trying to sell it, you can't say what is it that you don't like in it.

fucking shit.

price dropped due to thunder stealing jerk.

easiest way to make any 2-pickup bass be able to sound like a Ric and also sound like a bunch of other cool basses is to wire the two pickups out of phase, and have separate volume knobs for each. Blend them just right and you can cancel out however much low end you're looking to cancel. Blend them differently and have low end. Because of that, I doubt I'll ever own one since I got no reason to shell out the high $ that Rics seem to command.

neat, scott. go count the pickup in my bass.

Someone needs to buy both basses so I don't feel like an asshole.

Yeah, you used to have two, didn't you? Why you gotta be all doin' weird stuff with your bass? Two pickups, separate volume control for each, 3-way toggle. That's enough. And if you wanna get really tone-option-oriented, a phase reverse switch so you can make it sound like a Ric *or* a normal bass. Two knobs, two switches. Hell, you can go with two knobs, a 3-way toggle for pickup selection, and a push-pull pot on one of the volumes for phase reverse. You wouldn't even have to make new control holes.

You could do something like add a tele neck pickup and you might not even need to modify the pickguard much at all. Or any thin surface-mount pickup would do. That's something I love about the gold foils on my baritone: thin as hell, mount right onto the pickguard, put em anywhere you want on any guitar or bass. They also sound awesome.

Or, sell it.