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Re: Rickenbacker - Worst guitars ever?
A P-bass, using a split humbucker, is going to have a deeper tone with more thump to it... more bass, so to speak. Strictly speaking, P-basses also have a thicker neck and darker tone than most J-basses.
Now, the J-bass, having two single coil pickups, is going to have a brighter tone. This brighter tone tends to cut a little better through the mix of a band and pop a little more in the higher notes. They also, generally, have thinner, slimmer necks that are, "easier" to play on.
Personally, I prefer P-basses, through and through. I picked up a P-bass Special, instead of a J-bass just to have the P-bass tone on the bass. I rarely use the J pickup on that thing.
Now, ric basses... comepletely differant, right? My friend's got a ric 4001 bass and the tone is a little hard to describe... you've really got to here it. It's got dual single coils, so it's still got the pop of a jazz bass, but still retains the round bottom of a p-bass (not like a P/J combo, but completely differant). The neck is also more like that of a P-bass, but I find it infinately harder to play. I'm not too keen on the bass, it's well made and sounds GREAT, but I just don't like the feel. It's also a pretty heavy bass.
Now, their guitars... I really like their guitars, actually. They tend to play well (when set-up right) and have a really bright and jangly tone. Not something that I would buy right now, but, they're still nice guitars. I thought about picking up a 360, but when I played it, it just didn't feel like me. That's one of the problems. The rics are like the opposite end of the spectrum from ESP guitars, a little too weak for me.
As for the Marshall riding the wave of the Jimmies... I'm completely lost... How can two guys in the 60's playing on the amps push them for 40 odd years more? It's simply impossible. Marshall's a huge name in amps becuase they are the standard by which most other amps are judged (litterally). You play quite a few boutique amps these days, you'll notice that they're based on Marshalls (and there buy Fender amps).
And as for the Marshall = Windows thing, I think it'd be more apt to say, "Marshall = GNU," Widnows is an operating system that was invented in the early 90's to make computing much easier on the average person. Instead of, "C: - cd\westwood - dir/p -cd\westwood\c&c - dir/p - cnc" to open a program (can anyone tell me which on that is?) you just click on the icon for that program, much easier than dos and most other OSes of the era (though Mac OS was fairly similar). Without taking market share and user circles into account, I'd probably analoque it as thus: "Fender = Unix" "Marshall = GNU" "Crate = Windows" "Orange/Hiwatt/Selmer/Vox/other boutique amps = Mac OS"... that's probably the best analogy.
Originally posted by KGMESSIER
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Now, the J-bass, having two single coil pickups, is going to have a brighter tone. This brighter tone tends to cut a little better through the mix of a band and pop a little more in the higher notes. They also, generally, have thinner, slimmer necks that are, "easier" to play on.
Personally, I prefer P-basses, through and through. I picked up a P-bass Special, instead of a J-bass just to have the P-bass tone on the bass. I rarely use the J pickup on that thing.
Now, ric basses... comepletely differant, right? My friend's got a ric 4001 bass and the tone is a little hard to describe... you've really got to here it. It's got dual single coils, so it's still got the pop of a jazz bass, but still retains the round bottom of a p-bass (not like a P/J combo, but completely differant). The neck is also more like that of a P-bass, but I find it infinately harder to play. I'm not too keen on the bass, it's well made and sounds GREAT, but I just don't like the feel. It's also a pretty heavy bass.
Now, their guitars... I really like their guitars, actually. They tend to play well (when set-up right) and have a really bright and jangly tone. Not something that I would buy right now, but, they're still nice guitars. I thought about picking up a 360, but when I played it, it just didn't feel like me. That's one of the problems. The rics are like the opposite end of the spectrum from ESP guitars, a little too weak for me.
As for the Marshall riding the wave of the Jimmies... I'm completely lost... How can two guys in the 60's playing on the amps push them for 40 odd years more? It's simply impossible. Marshall's a huge name in amps becuase they are the standard by which most other amps are judged (litterally). You play quite a few boutique amps these days, you'll notice that they're based on Marshalls (and there buy Fender amps).
And as for the Marshall = Windows thing, I think it'd be more apt to say, "Marshall = GNU," Widnows is an operating system that was invented in the early 90's to make computing much easier on the average person. Instead of, "C: - cd\westwood - dir/p -cd\westwood\c&c - dir/p - cnc" to open a program (can anyone tell me which on that is?) you just click on the icon for that program, much easier than dos and most other OSes of the era (though Mac OS was fairly similar). Without taking market share and user circles into account, I'd probably analoque it as thus: "Fender = Unix" "Marshall = GNU" "Crate = Windows" "Orange/Hiwatt/Selmer/Vox/other boutique amps = Mac OS"... that's probably the best analogy.
We borrowed it from someone who trusted us more than I probably would have in their place, but it was returned safe and sound. 
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