The Rickenbacker 4003 is a beast!
In celebration of Movember and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead I take this bass apart and explain how Rick-O-Sound works before demonstrating it.
In addition I also explain how they went from dual "hair pins" to dual truss rods and show the safe way to not only adjust your Rick, but any other instrument with a truss rod.
00:00 In celebration of Movember I dedicate this video to Lemmy of Motorhead
00:50 This is not the history of the Rickenbacker bass for that go to 5 watt world
01:40 We will be talking Rick-O-Sound and the dual truss rod
02:13 Starting with Rick-O-Sound and the different jacks and cables you NEED TO KNOW!
03:55 How Rick-O-Sound uses a stereo jack with a TRS cable
05:23 The third Jack you have probably never seen (or maybey you have, I don't know your life)
05:57 Looking at the Rickenbacker internal wiring
07:25 The Rickenbacker dual truss rods
08:10 The biggest difference between the 4003 and the 4001
09:43 How to safely adjust a Rickenbacker dual truss rod system
11:12 The Rickenbacker scale length is weird
12:03 Backing off the truss rods to get rid of the back bow
13:13 What it sounds like, first mono
15:04 Now, what Rick-O-Sound sounds like
16:40 If you can grab some headphones
17:57 Noodling around switching between pickups
19:41 It's not for everybody
20:09 Until next time