{"id":12021,"date":"2018-02-19T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12021"},"modified":"2018-03-08T08:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T13:12:56","slug":"what-is-the-exact-rickenbacker-bass-chris-squire-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/what-is-the-exact-rickenbacker-bass-chris-squire-used.html","title":{"rendered":"What is the exact Rickenbacker bass Chris Squire used?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone even slightly familiar with Chris Squire&#8217;s bass playing style knows he uses a heavy-handed pick, which is part of how he got his signature sound.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0XuRxzYeXWw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also obvious that the Rickenbacker bass he used also played a huge part in that trebly, clacky tone he was able to get.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a common belief that the bass Chris used was a 1964 Rickenbacker 4001. True? Almost. The legendary bass he used was a Rickenbacker and was a &#8217;64, but was a variant of the 4001 called the 4001S model.<\/p>\n<p>On the 4001S there is no body binding, and the fretboard inlays are dots instead of triangles. Those are the visual differences.<\/p>\n<p>There is some debate as to what Chris&#8217;s Rick actually weighed. Some claim it only weighs 2\/3 of a regular 4001. What is known is that the instrument had been sent back to Rickenbacker at one point for headstock repairs, and in addition to that, Chris himself stated the instrument had been refurbished &#8220;many times.&#8221; All the repairs over the years affected the overall weight of the instrument to varying degrees.<\/p>\n<h3>What helps to get that trebly\/clacky Squire sound out of a Rick?<\/h3>\n<p>For some, the 4001&#8217;s stock pickups may not be responsive enough to get the sound you&#8217;re chasing after. True, you can use compression and overdrive to help things out. But if by doing that you get nothing but a nasty mess of a sound where screeching happens everywhere no matter what you do, then it may be time to consider different pickups. We do carry <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/rick-4001\">pickup options for the 4001<\/a> from Bartolini with the 6RC (bridge), 6RT (neck) and 6JH (&#8220;mute compartment&#8221;) models.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff5500;font-style:italic\">[Correction 2018-Mar-8: The majority opinion agrees that the model of bass used is the RM1999 and not the 4001S, see comments below for details.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone even slightly familiar with Chris Squire&#8217;s bass playing style knows he uses a heavy-handed pick, which is part of how he got his signature sound. But it&#8217;s also obvious that the Rickenbacker bass he used also played a huge part in that trebly, clacky tone he was able to get. It&#8217;s a common belief &#8230; <a title=\"What is the exact Rickenbacker bass Chris Squire used?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/what-is-the-exact-rickenbacker-bass-chris-squire-used.html\" aria-label=\"More on What is the exact Rickenbacker bass Chris Squire used?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}