: A little research on the Rickenbacker registration page made things clearer.
: Rick O'Sound became standard in 1969, at about the same time that the
: horseshoe pickup was replaced by the single coil high gain with cover.
: Throughout the '70s the 4001 kept changing until it was indistinguishable
: from the specs used for the 4003, which replaced it entirely in 1983.
: Rick O'Sound is not offered on the 4001v63 nor the 4001CS.
Rick O'Sound? Who he? ;>
Rickenbacker used to offer -- still does, for all I know -- a rather
expensive stereo splitter cable for use witht he Rick-O-Sound jack. If
you plug a normal guitar cable in there, you only get the treble (bridge)
pickup output. I never used Rick-O-Sound. I wonder if Squire has a custom
pickup-splitting setup?
: The notes did not make clear when body binding became standard for the 4001.
: Neither the v63 nor the new c64 comes with binding. Yours has binding,
: doesn't it?
Yes, it's a blond 4001 with white binding all around (now sort of
yellowish with age). The earlier models had a cool zebra-like binding, as
you probably know.
--
-S.
Preps suck, i rule.
In fact, technically making an electric guitar and bass with two pickups a two-channel guitar is as easy as shelling pears (the idea itself is ingeniously simple, I don’t know who it belongs to, probably the whole world :)). The most important thing on Tormato is that you can hear SURROUND two-channel sound in the bass part. A similar but less dramatic effect can be heard on the track Come Together from the legendary Abbey Road. I think that's the basis of Chris' guitar sound on Tormato. And then choruses with wow compressors :)