screambasses wrote:
So, can someone with another lefty 4001 please clue me in to the controls and the switch? The bass is great, but I'm not sure what the switch does, since in the top position - facing up - it doesn't do anything.
Thanks!
pete
Hey Pete,
Let me know if I misunderstood your question, but here is a description of how the controls work:
First of all, the layout is notoriously non-intuitive.
The bass volume and tone knobs are for the neck pickup. The treble volume and tone knobs are for the bridge pickup. A '77 will almost certainly have right-handed pots, wired backwards.
The switch works like a 3-way switch on a guitar, selecting either the bridge pickup when it is down, the neck pickup when it is up, or both in parallel in the middle position. The only real purpose I can think of for having the switch is to turn a pickup off on the fly.
If you aren't getting anything out of the neck pickup, make sure you are plugged in to the "standard" jack, and not the "Rick-o-sound" jack, as Austin said.
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Gilmourisgod wrote:
I never really "got" what a Rick is capable of until I ran it stereo a few times in my college band. We used to call it the "Piano of Doom". You get all the bottom and all the top in total a**kicking mode.
