i've been stringing mine with D'Addario ultra brites lately. I like having a bunch of obnoxious high end in my bass tone cause i'm in one of those two piece type bands. i've found that gibson basses in general all have a similar sound characteristic that i can't quite put my finger on. and the ripper is no different. it sounds like a gibson bass. funny enough... it had flatwounds on it when i bought it. i took those right the hell off as soon as i got it home... hehe. i've never been a fan of flatwounds... on a guitar or bass.

Mazec wrote:

phildotidiot wrote:i've got an old gibson ripper

By the way, the guy who had the Peavey amp I was talking about above had some pretty sweet basses as well.


He had an old Gibson Ripper, too, which he unfortunately managed to make sound like shit by stringing it with GHS Bright Flats. I begged him to set it up with roundwounds, so I could use it as a spare emergency bass, but he never copped to it. The flats gave it a muddy, slightly overloaded craptone which I couldn't tolerate. I regret having never heard the "true" sound of that bass.

He also had a nice, sturdy '70's P-Bass with ash body and translucent finish, which I liked a lot, too, but he similarly fucked it up by stringing it with goddamn halfwounds so that it sounded like shit, too.

Damn shame.

In Champion Collision:

Rick 4003 (mono)
EH Double Muff
Traynor TS-50B
sometimes Tapco IVP into Traynor PM-100
Karlson K-12 Loaded with a Eminence Beta-12LT

Soon I will be adding, for stereo, one more Karlson K-12 loaded with a Eminence Deltalite 2512.

I have (2) Traynor PM-100s that I would like to drive with the two TS-50B preamp clone pedals I'm building...

I would like to go stereo from the 4003 into the two TSB Pre's into the two PM-100s. The treble (bridge) channel will feed the Beta-12LT and the Bass(Neck) channel will drive the Deltalite.

I should have the pre up and running next week. I've got the boards in... just need to order the parts.

In Ultracrush, for my Bass VI, I run the TS-50B into the K-12 (Beta-12LT) with a few effects... Compression, delay, reverb...

My rig:

Precision Deluxe (Ash) -> SVT Classic Top -> Hartke 4x10" + Ampeg 15"

with a BOSS TU2 -> ProCo Diry Rat -> IBANEZ TS9

soon i'll get an Orange 4x10" to replace the Hartke cab.

to people who complain about the price of cab : here - in fucking France - a SVT 8x10" cost aprox 2000$ (new).... and don't hope to find one used. ok, ok ... i stop to complain (argggggg)

don't have enought friend to take one SVT 8x10' anyway

Ha ha, I've got a an old Korean Epi Jazz Bass copy and a crap-ass Yorkville 100 solid state. I've got a DOD Bass Grunge pedal that makes all that sound even worse. Can I join your club even though I never play either of them?