Ontopic String's and Adi's gear & pedal thread
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nukes
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Well what's involved in the build? Does somebody make a pre burned PC board with the circuit on it?
nukes
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Back in the day I learned how to create a circuit on a PC board and then burn it in in an acid bath. There's nothing fun about that.
Just a signal splitter. It's used to split the pickups on a ric. But you knew that.
nukes
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I did know that, and I forgot. I lost my Ric over 20 years ago.
Actually, I think I already have what I need.
I have an A/B box. Just need a stereo instrument cable and boom!
At least I think it will work right.
I know the bass end of the cable needs to be stereo but does the box end need to be in order for the "ric o sound" to work right?
It doesn't just split the signal into two amps, it actually splits the two pickups.
I have an A/B box. Just need a stereo instrument cable and boom!
At least I think it will work right.
I know the bass end of the cable needs to be stereo but does the box end need to be in order for the "ric o sound" to work right?
It doesn't just split the signal into two amps, it actually splits the two pickups.
This works and is cheap. But it's short so there's two cables hanging off. Kinda cumbersome.
nukes
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I've done this song and I very much disliked it while we did it. My front man at the time was also a bass player, and he literally hit me over the head cuz I'd screw up that stupid Solo in the middle of it. It's a stupid solo and I hate it and I refuse to play a stupid Solo in a stupid manner.
I take it the Ric has one stereo plug that needs to split to two amps?
Be easy to make up a custom cable to do it. Shrink tubing over the "Y" split.
Yes. Like this.
It actually splits the pickups. So if you select only the bridge, only the bridge will be heard from one of the amps.
I have cables to do it. Just thought it might be cool to have a real ric box.
Aso!
I thought those were individual mono jacks for each pickup. Didn't realize they used a shorting jack deal for normal and Ric-O-Sound.
nukes
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If I recall, for the Ricco Jack out of the base itself you needed a stereo cable.
Ya that makes sense with Strings pic of the jacks.
It would still need to split into 2 Mono's to get the effect though, whether that means running to two entirely separate rigs or a 2 channel amp with separate inputs for each, which was not an uncommon thing when those were made. Baseman's*, Reverb rocket, some marshalls, etc.
*"Base" used for literary continuity.
I use a MXR a/b now for splitting signals. But I want to mess with the splitting the pickup signals. So I'll try a stereo cable into the A/B. The end results is a stereo signal split to mono anyway. Should work.
This would take your clean/dirty rig pair all the way to where it's supposed to be. Especially if you used a real tube guitar amp and speakers on the dirty side, so add those to your shopping list. :wink wink: