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 Post subject: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 25th, 2014, 11:27 am 
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Last night I used my Ric 4003V63 (which doesn't get played all that much) on a gig. Ran it through the Fender Super Bassman300 and NEO 610 cab. I was completely blown away by the tones coming out of that rig. All those classic growly Ric tones were there in spades from Macca to Squire to Foxton to Geddy, you name it and it was there. The Ric shall henceforth be deemed gig-worthy :mrgreen:

So enough gushing about that rig. The downer for me was the apparent discovery that I have righty pots in the bass, since they basically function as on-off switches. Haven't looked under the hood to verify if indeed that's the case but that'll happen soon enough.

My questions are pretty basic. Any recommendations or thoughts on any particular lefty pots that I ought to be looking at? How about wiring the harness? Any gotcha's there I should be aware of?


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 Post subject: Re: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 26th, 2014, 12:04 pm 
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you got something like this in a lefty?

http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19507.pdf

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 Post subject: Re: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 27th, 2014, 4:14 am 
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Check out Pick of the Ricks, I purchased a guitar from him this year and stopped at his store to pick it up, after speaking to him you can tell he is very knowledgeable on all things Ric.

http://www.pickofthericks.com/


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 Post subject: Re: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 27th, 2014, 8:10 am 
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You mean the guys at Rickenbacker don't know you can't wire a righty audio taper pot in lefty config?
:shock:
I can't find it now but Gravesbass previously sent me link of a site where you can order lefty pots.
To avoid complications I decided years ago to wire all my instruments righty that way I don't need lefty pots.


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 Post subject: Re: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 27th, 2014, 12:23 pm 
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Rodent wrote:
you got something like this in a lefty?

http://www.rickenbacker.com/pdfs/19507.pdf

not exactly, I don't have the stereo output. I only have a single mono output. But otherwise it sure looks identical.


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 Post subject: Re: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 27th, 2014, 12:24 pm 
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Frenchy-Lefty wrote:
You mean the guys at Rickenbacker don't know you can't wire a righty audio taper pot in lefty config?
:shock:

whoda thunk it eh? I may just rewire the damn beast instead of going with lefty pots ... we'll see ...


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 Post subject: Re: Replacement pots for Ric 4003V63
PostPosted: May 27th, 2014, 2:30 pm 
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That reminds me I have a 1993 Am Std Strat and one tone knob works clockwise and the other one counter clockwise. I think it is because one of them was this TBX (?) tone control stuff and that was probably not made in lefty.
I thought someone had messed up with the guitar until I found out that all the strats from that time were the same.


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