It's amazing how popular these old guitars have become. El Degas, Tokai, I had a Vantage. We used to think they were cheap beginner's guitars and wouldn't be seen in public playing one.
After rewinding and troubleshooting numerous pickup coils in the 80s, I found that most coils were still good but just needed a new connection to the pickup wire ( number 42 AWG ). It's easier to handle human hair, that wire breaks if you frown at it. Soldering it is even trickier! The number one pickup coil killer is steel wool, gets in and shorts it because the magnets pull it in.
You know Dave I have been a subscriber for years and I don't understand why you only have a measly 87K subscribers! You should have at least 500K! Come on guys, subscribe! Dave busts his ass every time to provide vital info and instructions on how to curse at basses and guitars, misuse the English language and provide laughter and merriment to all! LOL Thankz
I appreciate his hard work and knowledge, but he's very opinionated without compromise about a lot of guitars people really love. Whether he's right or wrong, if he's going to talk the talk, he should be just as able to accept the backlash, or in this case the lack of subscribers.
Because he's not 'mainstream' enough, it's a very niche subject. If people want advice on how to set up their own particular guitar they'll just Google it and that's it done, they are not interested in Dave's particular brand of humour. They don't feel any affinity with him and are not interested in weekly videos, they only want to know how to set up one or maybe two guitars and they only want to do it once or maybe twice. Also I suspect most people watch YT vids on their phones now too, they don't want lists of vids to watch when they have bandwidth caps and there are so many other channels competing for their view time. Most vids seem to only get watched for one or two minutes, relatively few people watch from beginning to end.
Yes but it seems less people find the time to watch full length vids these days. So I was assuming it had something to do with data caps as less people seem to sit at a computer at home to watch YT vids. I'm not a smartphone user and don't watch TV so my PC is my main source of entertainment, I love Dave's vids purely for entertainment value.
Hey man.I certainly don't wish to start a war, only trying to help... As a EE, the general rule is to heat the work, not the solder. If both points are properly heated, the solder (which is a lot softer) should create a joint almost instantly. This is the reason why you don't want to use an underpowered iron for this work... I usually use a 40W iron for guitar work, hot enough to make a quick joint, not hot enough to destroy your components... I guess what I am saying, rest your iron on the joint you wish to achieve for 10 secs, then apply solder...
That's how I learned to do it, too. When the leads heat up, the solder will flow into them, provided they're properly tinned beforehand. So, for example, heat the terminal until the terminal & the lead are both hot, then apply solder to the joint, and don't just melt solder onto the soldering tip, but only on the connection. Whenever possible, one should try to wrap some of the lead around the terminal, as if creating a mechanical connection, for adding strength & durability to the solder joint. In other words, we don't wanna rely on just the solder alone, to hold the joint together. Have fun, Kristopher!
Yes in an ideal world that's how it's supposed to work but in the real world there are exceptions. When soldering a wire to the back of a pot , the metal casing can absorb a lot of heat so you have to adapt your technique. You presolder your wire and try to melt part of the solder on the surface of the pot and the wire. You might not be able to melt the entire blob of solder on the pot because of the heat dissipation.
@@nrich5127 Exactly. My failsafe technique is just: Heat the surface, with solder pushed against iron. Once it flows, push the solder until there's enough. Done
I have one of these, purchased it new in 1978 at a store in Wyoming when I was traveling in a road band. Some years later, back in my hometown, I lent it to a friend who owned a music store & played in a bar band. He called me & said there was a problem. They were transporting it back from the gig in a trailer, slid on an icy road, & flipped the trailer in the ditch. The end of the case was bashed in by the headstock. The guy tried to ship it back to a US distributor but his distributor was not the same one as the one who'd originally supplied the bass to the store out in Wyoming. So there were problems with invoices & stuff. Besides, the warranty didn't cover accidental damage of that nature anyway. Even way worse, my friend died of cancer a few short years later, at only age 36. And he'd really felt bad that he wasn't able to take care of it through his shop. So I've just had it in & out of the case a periodically at home. After it was in that accident, it appeared that the glue joint between the neck & the fretboard was starting to separate, and there are dead notes here & there. I'd already had a P bass when I got the Ibanez, & so fixing it wasn't much of a priority. I suppose, if I ever get caught up on things, I'll see if I can't help the old gal find some new life. in her. The more I think about it, the more I want to put it back in good playing condition. I miss the fun I had with it when it was new. And in a way, it'd be something my old friend would have been pleased to know of. Other than the neck damage, there's hardly a scratch or a mark on it.
I hate to be the one to say it but I think it's a pretty rad bass. It's one of those obscure pieces you keep in the studio. It may only be good for one sound but it's the sound that keeps everyone guessing. Very rad.
Pokey Prasch This one is an Electra Corsair 2278. Hotter humbuckers, thicker body, bolt on neck, one traditional truss rod, smaller mounting contraption around the back pickup. THESE ARE POSITIVE CHANGES.
Tokai Rockinbetters are great too. I've always preferred the non-insane truss rod system of the copies, makes it so much easier to adjust than the actual rickys xD
Dave, another great tutorial with your personality that keeps us watching! Thank you for doing what you do and sharing it with all of us. Funk the haters that give you shite about your language in the past, the best part of watching your videos is that you are a REAL man entertaining/educating the world with your skills! I'm thrilled to see you get back to the raw Dave again, cuz having worked on my own guitars over the years, sometimes it's just proper to say fuck from time to time! Cheers!
Lovely episode. Good sounding bass! Love some more Ricshitting, Dave. Doesn't faze at all. A short story in 2005 I needed a better bass as all I had was a short scale EKO from the late sixties. And I was in a good band making decent dough. So I took my friend and luthier to the music store. Hey, we just got in this Ric. Look here, nice looking blonde. Only $2000 CAD. One of three in Canada, the only one on the west coast where I live. Ya wanna try it out for tje weekend? I had two gig nights. I said sure. Well, those two nights left me with such a high, I don't care what folks talk trash about it. The sound was dark and powerful all the way down to the bottom of my two fifteens. It gave me a voice in the soundscape that I could paint with. Unique. Wow. I was hooked. My friend was very kind. He set it up for me and never mentioned the flaws, ever. I threw out the plucking preventor, the rubber damper, got a nice thumbrest, love it. I've played rock, jazz, church music, honky tonk stuff, kids theatre performances. It worked everywhere. I now have it running through a multistomp and use compression and doubling when needed. Always use my sansamp to tweak the eq to the room. So there.
Dave, you shouldn't get a continuity beep across a 5K resistance. If you normally get a beep from your other pickups then something isn't right. A proper continuity meter will give a "true" reading if the resistance between the probe tips is a few tens of Ohms or less. Continuity is a short circuit (or a few tens of Ohms at most) between the probes, so your meter is working properly. Think of it as a short circuit detector. I'm sure many other guys out there will explain it better :D
I played a fake 2 years ago that was perfect. A guy playing in a bar band had a custom bass built for him, it had a neck thru with standard dual-action truss rod and 2 carbon fiber rods and an Ebony fretboard and extra jumbo stainless steel frets a zero fret and the nut was there to hold the string in the correct location but the zero fret was the nut. he had real rick pickups in a real pickguard and truss rod cover. The bridge I think was a bad ass bridge so much better than original bridge. The thing was awesome. He said it cost him 1600 to be built. he did not remember the builder's name but said the guy would not build another one for him at the same price so I guess the guy under quoted the price. I wish I could find somebody to build that bass for me when I still played in a band, I love the sound of my old rick and the feel of the neck, but did not like anything else about it.
If you ever get hold of one of these great instruments, here are my top tips to radically improve it: • Replace the _godawful_ pot metal bridge with the Hipshot Rick bridge. • Replace the nasty-plastic nut with a GraphTech Black Tusq nut. • Replace the crumby pickup switch with a Switchcraft one. (I tried others, but the Switchcraft is the only one that hasn't gone crackly or failed within a few months.) And, if the tuners are a tad "wobbly" or "iffy:" • Replace the tuners with new Gotoh tuners (the Gotoh ones are the *only* ones I could find which match the originals for shape, size, and screw hole fit: you're welcome!). I did all of the above on mine, and I guarantee you that it will sound, and play, MUCH better. Also, you will finally be able to _properly_ intonate the strings (!) AND - if you replaced the tuners - the tuning won't drift: WIN! Optional: put Thomastik-Infeld Jazz flatwound strings on it. (Or, Rotosound roundwounds if you want to sound like Lemmy [LOL!]: but you'll need to replace them every month or so.)
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff wha-?! I'll have you know that I've owned my Ibanez since new in about 1973, and it's my only bass (by choice). MUCH better than those Fender things; literally can't get my fingers round the neck of a Fender.
Gonna have to look for one of those! That's a sweet piece of kit. Knowing what I do from watching your vids, I think I too could get one set up all nice-like. Keep up the good work on the videos!
I have one of these and the neck pickup looks nothing like the one he had rewired. I think this is a replacement, which would explain the soldered leads he discovered in the earlier vid.
I'm proud to have some of my cash go to the Canadian war amputees and their effort to help other amputees. Buy some cool merch and help out Dave and our friends from the Great White North. Deal. Got some props for my D.W.O.F.S.. t-shirt at the Dweezil Zappa show in Jersey a few weeks ago.
4:26 I think it's great that bass has a pancake body, you can see the laminated seam between the two slabs. What could sound more like a bass than a mahogany pancake.
Hi mr dave. i hop you doing fine my name is Mutwkil from Sudan-Africa lave big problem in my Bass (jolana D-Bass) I searched the inter net for wiring map. to fix components wiring but i didn’t find any thing to help me . con you advice me
Very nice recovery from the dead Dave, only thing missing was that pickup surround piece but compared to what you stared with its a peach of a player with big peachy balls--lol
I laid down $500 for my Rickenbacker a year later than you (1976) and gigged with it for 10 years. Mine was the less expensive 4000 set neck, to which the shop in Tarzana, CA added a Ric neck pup. Take off the scratch guard and you'll find the definition of Gooched. It would be a fun project for you. Anyway, that Ric tailpiece is absolute junk. Have you tried the HipShot replacement?
The neck looks narrower and thicker. I prefer that to the Rics opposite setup. BTW, for those that know who he is, This was Bruce Foxton's OG bass back in the day they played great stuff...
Hey Dave, I found one like it only the design is a little smaller. Still very cool. The site had a shit load of bass related tees. And guitar too. I’m a tee shirt junkie. Now I’m afraid I’m going to sink to the depths of a pile of bass player tee shirts. They’re at sunfrog(dot)com. (Didn’t know if it was legal on utube to show website names)
Those godawful Rickenbacker basses all the prog rockers used to play back in the 70's sounded like an elastic band stretched across a wardrobe. Terrible bloody things. Gimme a Gibson Grabber or Fender Jazz any time. Great video Dave...
Now that has to be a total let down. Hook up the Pick Up and it fails. OMG. Personally I would be pissed. Personally I've never destroyed any ones guitar but I have had one of my favorites totally screwed up. And the way to destroy a very old and nice Martin is to try to replace frets and end up pulling up large hunks of Fret Board on each fret and keep going! Yes, the Dick kept trying and actually blamed the guitar as being too old and not his fault! On Top he wanted to CHARGE ME for the Fret Board repairs!
I bought a jazz bass from a guy who put EMG J pickups in it and (for some reason which is unknown to me) put a phase switch on it. I never use it in fact I call it the "awful switch". However when I was playing around with it one day and I backed off the bridge pickup, lo and behold, Rickenbacker sound! Threw a little Sansamp distortion on it and I was ready to play Red Barchetta.
A friend of mine owns a 'lawsuit Ibby Rick'. If he ever sells it, I'll pay whatever he asks. I played it and it's way better than the double trussrod stereo output Rickenbacker shit thing.
I take it is a VETERANS CHARITY AS IT'S CALLED THE WAR APPS WOULD YOU PM ME THEIR ADRESS AS A 27 YEAR VETRAN OF THE BRITISH ARMY AND I LOVE GIVING SOME THING TO OUR CROWN FORCES FROM CANADA AUSTRALIA NEWZELAND FAUGH A BALLAGH THIS IS THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT MOTO GREAT VIDS LOVE THEM DAVE YOUR MY HERO
From what I can tell, the War Amps is like the Canadian version of The Royal Legion. Their postal address which you can see at 7:13 is: The War Amps 1 Maybrook Drive Scarborough, Ontario M1V 5K9 Canada
It don't sound all that rickenbacker-y...my old 74 4001 has a neck like a ball bat....and sounds like a ric....i dont understand why ibanez would clone a ric and have it sound like something else....
Augie Doggie Common complaint of the old 4001s in the mid 70s was that the pickup output was too low. These are super hot humbuckers so they probably tried to remedy that, same with the single truss rod bolt on neck instead of the neck through with unconventional dual truss rod system that Ricks still use. Ibanez and other Japanese companies were very fond of taking traditional models like strats and putting their own spin on them: humbuckers and floyds, making guitars out of basswood because the hard ash America was using was too heavy, etc.
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DAVE I miss you playing the basses on the Big Rig after you fix them. Please bring that back Brother!!!!!
It's amazing how popular these old guitars have become. El Degas, Tokai, I had a Vantage. We used to think they were cheap beginner's guitars and wouldn't be seen in public playing one.
After rewinding and troubleshooting numerous pickup coils in the 80s, I found that most coils were still good but just needed a new connection to the pickup wire ( number 42 AWG ). It's easier to handle human hair, that wire breaks if you frown at it. Soldering it is even trickier! The number one pickup coil killer is steel wool, gets in and shorts it because the magnets pull it in.
You damn well got that right, bro. On both counts.
You know Dave I have been a subscriber for years and I don't understand why you only have a measly 87K subscribers! You should have at least 500K! Come on guys, subscribe! Dave busts his ass every time to provide vital info and instructions on how to curse at basses and guitars, misuse the English language and provide laughter and merriment to all! LOL Thankz
Audio Tech Labs I tried to sub a few more times than I was suppose to but it never showed up
Thank You for trying! I'm not a Canadian, but love Dave anyway! LOL! Thankz
I appreciate his hard work and knowledge, but he's very opinionated without compromise about a lot of guitars people really love. Whether he's right or wrong, if he's going to talk the talk, he should be just as able to accept the backlash, or in this case the lack of subscribers.
Because he's not 'mainstream' enough, it's a very niche subject. If people want advice on how to set up their own particular guitar they'll just Google it and that's it done, they are not interested in Dave's particular brand of humour. They don't feel any affinity with him and are not interested in weekly videos, they only want to know how to set up one or maybe two guitars and they only want to do it once or maybe twice.
Also I suspect most people watch YT vids on their phones now too, they don't want lists of vids to watch when they have bandwidth caps and there are so many other channels competing for their view time. Most vids seem to only get watched for one or two minutes, relatively few people watch from beginning to end.
Yes but it seems less people find the time to watch full length vids these days. So I was assuming it had something to do with data caps as less people seem to sit at a computer at home to watch YT vids. I'm not a smartphone user and don't watch TV so my PC is my main source of entertainment, I love Dave's vids purely for entertainment value.
Hey man.I certainly don't wish to start a war, only trying to help... As a EE, the general rule is to heat the work, not the solder. If both points are properly heated, the solder (which is a lot softer) should create a joint almost instantly. This is the reason why you don't want to use an underpowered iron for this work... I usually use a 40W iron for guitar work, hot enough to make a quick joint, not hot enough to destroy your components... I guess what I am saying, rest your iron on the joint you wish to achieve for 10 secs, then apply solder...
That's how I learned to do it, too. When the leads heat up, the solder will flow into them, provided they're properly tinned beforehand. So, for example, heat the terminal until the terminal & the lead are both hot, then apply solder to the joint, and don't just melt solder onto the soldering tip, but only on the connection. Whenever possible, one should try to wrap some of the lead around the terminal, as if creating a mechanical connection, for adding strength & durability to the solder joint. In other words, we don't wanna rely on just the solder alone, to hold the joint together. Have fun, Kristopher!
Yes in an ideal world that's how it's supposed to work but in the real world there are exceptions. When soldering a wire to the back of a pot , the metal casing can absorb a lot of heat so you have to adapt your technique. You presolder your wire and try to melt part of the solder on the surface of the pot and the wire. You might not be able to melt the entire blob of solder on the pot because of the heat dissipation.
@@nrich5127 Exactly. My failsafe technique is just: Heat the surface, with solder pushed against iron. Once it flows, push the solder until there's enough. Done
I have one of these, purchased it new in 1978 at a store in Wyoming when I was traveling in a road band. Some years later, back in my hometown, I lent it to a friend who owned a music store & played in a bar band. He called me & said there was a problem. They were transporting it back from the gig in a trailer, slid on an icy road, & flipped the trailer in the ditch. The end of the case was bashed in by the headstock. The guy tried to ship it back to a US distributor but his distributor was not the same one as the one who'd originally supplied the bass to the store out in Wyoming. So there were problems with invoices & stuff. Besides, the warranty didn't cover accidental damage of that nature anyway. Even way worse, my friend died of cancer a few short years later, at only age 36. And he'd really felt bad that he wasn't able to take care of it through his shop. So I've just had it in & out of the case a periodically at home. After it was in that accident, it appeared that the glue joint between the neck & the fretboard was starting to separate, and there are dead notes here & there. I'd already had a P bass when I got the Ibanez, & so fixing it wasn't much of a priority. I suppose, if I ever get caught up on things, I'll see if I can't help the old gal find some new life. in her. The more I think about it, the more I want to put it back in good playing condition. I miss the fun I had with it when it was new. And in a way, it'd be something my old friend would have been pleased to know of. Other than the neck damage, there's hardly a scratch or a mark on it.
Part 1 and 2. Both great shows Dave. Loved seeing that brought back from the pire. ❤
Sounded great.
I hate to be the one to say it but I think it's a pretty rad bass. It's one of those obscure pieces you keep in the studio. It may only be good for one sound but it's the sound that keeps everyone guessing. Very rad.
Love this guy.........these shows are therapeutic!!
Gotta love Dave. It's like, "nothing we can do here..." next cut, he's fixing it...
I could watch you play that bass for ages man
Dave, I haven't laughed so much as I did this round. Thanks a lot, long live Ric 😅 and Happy Easter!
Rock on!
Great job Dave! If you're ever in Minnesota stop in for a beer and a jam session! I have a American deluxe P bass I think you would love.
I like the copies better than the originals. At least the Ibby and the Fernandes/Burny ones.
Good to know, never played any of those.
That's a pretty close copy to the original...I'm surprised Ibanez were able to get away with it
Pokey Prasch This one is an Electra Corsair 2278. Hotter humbuckers, thicker body, bolt on neck, one traditional truss rod, smaller mounting contraption around the back pickup. THESE ARE POSITIVE CHANGES.
I actually used the hole in between the mounting ring and the pickup as my anchor point for my thumb.
Tokai Rockinbetters are great too. I've always preferred the non-insane truss rod system of the copies, makes it so much easier to adjust than the actual rickys xD
I'm surprised the Rickenbacker company doesn't sue a guy for drawing their name in marker on his own bass!
I'm still waiting for Martin to sue Gibson for copying Martin's dreadnought body style.
FYI most digital multimeters audible continuity range will not beep until about 25 or 30 ohms resistance is seen.
Dave, another great tutorial with your personality that keeps us watching! Thank you for doing what you do and sharing it with all of us. Funk the haters that give you shite about your language in the past, the best part of watching your videos is that you are a REAL man entertaining/educating the world with your skills! I'm thrilled to see you get back to the raw Dave again, cuz having worked on my own guitars over the years, sometimes it's just proper to say fuck from time to time! Cheers!
Gawd that's a freaking awesome Bass whoever owns it is very lucky
Lovely episode. Good sounding bass!
Love some more Ricshitting, Dave. Doesn't faze at all.
A short story
in 2005 I needed a better bass as all I had was a short scale EKO from the late sixties.
And I was in a good band making decent dough.
So I took my friend and luthier to the music store.
Hey, we just got in this Ric. Look here, nice looking blonde.
Only $2000 CAD. One of three in Canada, the only one on the west coast where I live.
Ya wanna try it out for tje weekend?
I had two gig nights. I said sure.
Well, those two nights left me with such a high, I don't care what folks talk trash about it.
The sound was dark and powerful all the way down to the bottom of my two fifteens.
It gave me a voice in the soundscape that I could paint with. Unique.
Wow. I was hooked.
My friend was very kind. He set it up for me and never mentioned the flaws, ever.
I threw out the plucking preventor, the rubber damper, got a nice thumbrest, love it.
I've played rock, jazz, church music, honky tonk stuff, kids theatre performances. It worked everywhere.
I now have it running through a multistomp and use compression and doubling when needed.
Always use my sansamp to tweak the eq to the room.
So there.
Dave, you shouldn't get a continuity beep across a 5K resistance. If you normally get a beep from your other pickups then something isn't right. A proper continuity meter will give a "true" reading if the resistance between the probe tips is a few tens of Ohms or less. Continuity is a short circuit (or a few tens of Ohms at most) between the probes, so your meter is working properly. Think of it as a short circuit detector. I'm sure many other guys out there will explain it better :D
I assume he was testing to see that it wasn't dead shorted. He did do a k ohms test I think.
Great sound!
"I didn't kill your baby, it's just a machine"
-Dave 2017
I played a fake 2 years ago that was perfect. A guy playing in a bar band had a custom bass built for him, it had a neck thru with standard dual-action truss rod and 2 carbon fiber rods and an Ebony fretboard and extra jumbo stainless steel frets a zero fret and the nut was there to hold the string in the correct location but the zero fret was the nut. he had real rick pickups in a real pickguard and truss rod cover. The bridge I think was a bad ass bridge so much better than original bridge. The thing was awesome. He said it cost him 1600 to be built. he did not remember the builder's name but said the guy would not build another one for him at the same price so I guess the guy under quoted the price. I wish I could find somebody to build that bass for me when I still played in a band, I love the sound of my old rick and the feel of the neck, but did not like anything else about it.
Use to have one of them.bridge was made of brass instead of aluminium.:-)on the original ric .pickups was from 4003.
Looks great! Sounds even better!
Nice Black Sabbath lick!
Sabbath always great :-D
This was a great vid. This is the type of vid your fans love
If you ever get hold of one of these great instruments, here are my top tips to radically improve it:
• Replace the _godawful_ pot metal bridge with the Hipshot Rick bridge.
• Replace the nasty-plastic nut with a GraphTech Black Tusq nut.
• Replace the crumby pickup switch with a Switchcraft one.
(I tried others, but the Switchcraft is the only one that hasn't gone crackly or failed within a few months.)
And, if the tuners are a tad "wobbly" or "iffy:"
• Replace the tuners with new Gotoh tuners
(the Gotoh ones are the *only* ones I could find which match the originals for shape, size, and screw hole fit: you're welcome!).
I did all of the above on mine, and I guarantee you that it will sound, and play, MUCH better.
Also, you will finally be able to _properly_ intonate the strings (!) AND - if you replaced the tuners - the tuning won't drift: WIN!
Optional: put Thomastik-Infeld Jazz flatwound strings on it.
(Or, Rotosound roundwounds if you want to sound like Lemmy [LOL!]: but you'll need to replace them every month or so.)
FIRE works also
@@DavesWorldofFunStuff wha-?! I'll have you know that I've owned my Ibanez since new in about 1973, and it's my only bass (by choice). MUCH better than those Fender things; literally can't get my fingers round the neck of a Fender.
Gonna have to look for one of those! That's a sweet piece of kit. Knowing what I do from watching your vids, I think I too could get one set up all nice-like. Keep up the good work on the videos!
Sticker ordered! Keep up the good work!
NICE ONE DAVE, ENJOYED THAT.
Loved it a good chucklesome and interesting video thanks
Your patience amazes me
awesome work Dave... 👍
Dave,you're great! And these videos are good for asrm also!
Dave's World of Fun Stuff thanks to you!!!
Cool job mate great stuff
I had an Ibanez Rick before I got my Rickenbacker 4001 back in 1974
Good job bud. Someone must'a really loved that bass.
I have one of these. Neck thru. Love of my life. Amazing Guitar!
That wind machine don't hurt a thing Dave. If you didn't say anything we would think it was our oun.
This gives me hope when i try to revive my GOOCHED Warwick
I have one of these and the neck pickup looks nothing like the one he had rewired. I think this is a replacement, which would explain the soldered leads he discovered in the earlier vid.
What is the correct size solder wire for installing pickups ?
I'm proud to have some of my cash go to the Canadian war amputees and their effort to help other amputees. Buy some cool merch and help out Dave and our friends from the Great White North. Deal. Got some props for my D.W.O.F.S.. t-shirt at the Dweezil Zappa show in Jersey a few weeks ago.
DAVE you are a diamond thank you for the sticker and pick it arrived super fast all the way across the ocean ...cherrs buddy👌🤗
Hey Dave! I just love it when you don't give a damn. LOL!
By the way, is that a lawsuit Ibanbacker?
Haven't forgot about your care package . Been layed up with back problems . Nothing gets done .
Maybe I'm a Leo! Machine Head! On my all time best album list.
The neck still ain't straight, so what can we do?
Congrats sir! Your Ibanebacker sounds awesome in D-standard!
Does it come close to the
4001 model?
That's lovely bass!
Nice video, I like the Ibanez Rick. Rare bass I think. Saludos desde Argentina.
How could it be any better you asked it could have come with free instalation.
Acting like a fool, I had to make her cry
Maybe I'm a Leo but I ain't a lion
I'm hurting oh so bad, I want her now
Yeah
i came close to buying one of these...still might
4:26 I think it's great that bass has a pancake body, you can see the laminated seam between the two slabs. What could sound more like a bass than a mahogany pancake.
Mahogany Pancake. Sounds like a great Prog/ punk band name. If there was such a thing.
Good for hardcore punk bunch of mofos:-D
3 piecec here.use to play same similar bass :-).maple-dark wood -maple
Hi mr dave. i hop you doing fine my name is Mutwkil from Sudan-Africa lave big problem in my Bass (jolana D-Bass) I searched the inter net for wiring map. to fix components wiring but i didn’t find any thing to help me . con you advice me
"Let's see what Yoda has to say."
Correctly adjust the bass, you must.
A job to be proud of.
Dave, I thought it was a gooch at first but I stand corrected
Dave is a ray of sunshine :))
"I'm very sorry I destroyed your guitar here's the money, have another one."
Let the crying ensue...
I've played these Ibanez Rics and though I haven't actually played the real deal, based on feel alone I'm after one of these
How does the Ibanez compare to a Rick ?
Would buy that one before rickenbacker
Very nice recovery from the dead Dave, only thing missing was that pickup surround piece but compared to what you stared with its a peach of a player with big peachy balls--lol
I laid down $500 for my Rickenbacker a year later than you (1976) and gigged with it for 10 years. Mine was the less expensive 4000 set neck, to which the shop in Tarzana, CA added a Ric neck pup. Take off the scratch guard and you'll find the definition of Gooched. It would be a fun project for you. Anyway, that Ric tailpiece is absolute junk. Have you tried the HipShot replacement?
A minor miracle, or miracle in Am?
The neck looks narrower and thicker. I prefer that to the Rics opposite setup. BTW, for those that know who he is, This was Bruce Foxton's OG bass back in the day they played great stuff...
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The neck on my Rickenbacker 4003 from 2013 is a thick neck,
A cross between a thick D shape P bass and a jazz bass.
Dave, I really like the bass head tee you got on. I’d really like to get one. Can you divulge its origin so’s I can possibly git me one? Tanks.
Hey Dave, I found one like it only the design is a little smaller. Still very cool. The site had a shit load of bass related tees. And guitar too. I’m a tee shirt junkie. Now I’m afraid I’m going to sink to the depths of a pile of bass player tee shirts. They’re at sunfrog(dot)com. (Didn’t know if it was legal on utube to show website names)
Maybe I'm a Leo.... Good stuff, man.
Sir, Is that an Ibanez Rickanbacker bass guitar?
Dave, do you have a Star of David tattoo?
The Star of David has my name on it
Hey Dave what do you set your string action too?
For customers, slightly above 5/64. He personally does 4/64 and lets the amp do the work.
Ok thanks :)
I don't know why someone would be ashamed of an Ibanez copy of a Rickenbacker. The Ibanez copy is better than the original.
Those godawful Rickenbacker basses all the prog rockers used to play back in the 70's sounded like an elastic band stretched across a wardrobe. Terrible bloody things. Gimme a Gibson Grabber or Fender Jazz any time. Great video Dave...
Gibson made of maple anyway .:-)ripper or grabber
The pickup lizard?
4:34 extrenuous isnt even a word hahaha
Dave, you wouldn't originally be from the Maritimes by any chance would ya?
3X T Shirts?
Why do people still send Rickenbackers to Dave? He hates Rickenbackers. No really, send your Ricks to Dave everyone, it's funny.
Keep sending him the Rickenbackers - Dave's at his best when he rages against the gooch1
If you take too much off the bridge, couldn’t you just use some jb weld to build it up?
Can you give me the name of the pickup company.
www.pickupwizard.com/index.php?pr=Home_Page
that bass is twice as thick as a ric. wow !!! must weigh a ton that thing.
Now that has to be a total let down. Hook up the Pick Up and it fails. OMG. Personally I would be pissed. Personally I've never destroyed any ones guitar but I have had one of my favorites totally screwed up. And the way to destroy a very old and nice Martin is to try to replace frets and end up pulling up large hunks of Fret Board on each fret and keep going! Yes, the Dick kept trying and actually blamed the guitar as being too old and not his fault! On Top he wanted to CHARGE ME for the Fret Board repairs!
sounds like guitar repair in a B17 bomber.
Dave is nothing if not entertaining, love the bit at the end `play Rubic's cube then the fucking screw holes don't line up'!
Ladies & Gents watching ........ We wish
sausage fest
im not that far from you , i can hand deliver my gootched guitar lol :)
Is it just me of does that Ibanez 4001 produce a very J bass sound?
Agreed
I bought a jazz bass from a guy who put EMG J pickups in it and (for some reason which is unknown to me) put a phase switch on it. I never use it in fact I call it the "awful switch". However when I was playing around with it one day and I backed off the bridge pickup, lo and behold, Rickenbacker sound! Threw a little Sansamp distortion on it and I was ready to play Red Barchetta.
This guy uses more solder than a plumber.
A friend of mine owns a 'lawsuit Ibby Rick'. If he ever sells it, I'll pay whatever he asks. I played it and it's way better than the double trussrod stereo output Rickenbacker shit thing.
Dave, I couldn't hear any beeps when you were testing for constant nudity, what gives?
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I take it is a VETERANS CHARITY AS IT'S CALLED THE WAR APPS
WOULD YOU PM ME THEIR ADRESS
AS A 27 YEAR VETRAN OF THE BRITISH ARMY AND I LOVE GIVING SOME THING TO OUR CROWN FORCES
FROM CANADA AUSTRALIA NEWZELAND
FAUGH A BALLAGH THIS IS THE ROYAL IRISH REGIMENT MOTO
GREAT VIDS LOVE THEM
DAVE YOUR MY HERO
Good on you Harry. It's a great charity that helps a lot of kids AND helps you find your keys!
From what I can tell, the War Amps is like the Canadian version of The Royal Legion.
Their postal address which you can see at 7:13 is:
The War Amps
1 Maybrook Drive
Scarborough, Ontario M1V 5K9
Canada
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(these Ibanez copies seem like they'd have been cheap, but now they're collectible. I saw only one on kijiji, for like $750.)
Catt quality costs!
unfortunately.
you gooched your address at 8:30
didn't you try to hide your address before opening the letter? you show it at 8:30 in the video, I think
Dave's World of Fun Stuff yeah, might want to edit that out Dave.
He Gooched his address @ 8:30.
Gooched. That's the word.
It don't sound all that rickenbacker-y...my old 74 4001 has a neck like a ball bat....and sounds like a ric....i dont understand why ibanez would clone a ric and have it sound like something else....
Augie Doggie Common complaint of the old 4001s in the mid 70s was that the pickup output was too low. These are super hot humbuckers so they probably tried to remedy that, same with the single truss rod bolt on neck instead of the neck through with unconventional dual truss rod system that Ricks still use. Ibanez and other Japanese companies were very fond of taking traditional models like strats and putting their own spin on them: humbuckers and floyds, making guitars out of basswood because the hard ash America was using was too heavy, etc.
I'm ok with low pickup output if it gives me that ric sound....i just turn the amp way up.....
Measures impotence, unreal.
The fan noise is not a factor. Anyone can understand needing to 'be cool' .
Have you ever been told you sound like Tommy Chong? Or maybe he sounds like you
FakenBacher
dat bass not ricke not iban it name is jeff in time for dinner?