I could clearly hear faint whispers of it. there was this ghost of a sound within it's workings that produced a faint recollection of the prog bass tone that I wanted to achieve. It felt like I was wearing a garden rake. Sharp, annoying pointy spots that seemed to cause physical discomfort to me, body hitting my torso in all the wrong places, a SHITPILE of a bridge (which would need to be replaced anyhow if one was serious about obtaining the rock bass sound). One thing that I noticed that was most neglected in other's efforts to replicate that sound was focusing on placing pickups in the proper location relative to scale length. To me this seemed like the single most effective way to get the farthest with the least involved. I was completely unsatisfied with every one of those explanations. And when it does, it often times involves a U-Haul truck full of ~stuff~ to make it go (amps, cabs, racks of stuff, et al.). As many times as I've seen effort after effort and dollar after dollar thrown at this, it rarely ever produces the desired result. I say those are excuses for why people typically fail at this pursuit. Still others insist it's some sort of undefinable mojo that only the magic gnomes within the Ric factory know how to apply using fairy dust and oxygen free copper clad potions cooked up in The Rock Bass Forest. Not to mention sophisticated pickup wire routings and foot controlled sideband EQ-ing.
Still others carry on about how multiple parallel processing channels involving compressors, bi-amped systems with multi-type cabs and vintage speaker cone paper made from the root of the Prog Rock tree. the maple body and neck grafted with a wenge fretboard. Others say that it's the combination of construction and materials. Some say it's the scale length, or the pickups, or the "Ric-O'Sound" circuitry. Piles of money spent on necks, bodies, vintage electronics and pickups. You've been warned!įor many years I've seen a lot of people attempting to create some sort of reasonable facsimile of that Rickenbacker rock bass tone from their other than Ricky basses.
NOTE: This is a technical thread, it's wordy and verbos.
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