{"id":6707,"date":"2014-12-24T10:13:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=6707"},"modified":"2017-04-27T11:41:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T16:41:44","slug":"bass-of-the-week-the-rickenderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-the-rickenderman.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] The Rickenderman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:6px;background:#ffffc0;border:1px solid #555555\">See the business listing for this bass builder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/techdirectory\/detail\/pierre-gilles-9345\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s bass guitar of the week has influences from a Rickenbacker 4005, Fender, <em>and<\/em> Music Man.<\/p>\n<p>Bass builder Pierre-Gilles writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Except some small pieces of walnut here and there, it\u2019s a full-maple instrument. The neck is glued through a twin-chamber body, there\u2019s a fanned fret fingerboard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/labella-bass-strings.htm\">Labella FW strings<\/a> (hard to find!), it\u2019s full passive with three Delano pups.  <\/p>\n<p>Controls :&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; volume neck with a J\/JP\/P selector  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; volume bridge with a parallel\/single\/series selector  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bestbassgear.com\/stellartone-tonestyler-bass.htm\">tone styler Stellartone Duo 6<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Here was one of my problems : considering that the scale is not the same from a string to the other, how to respect the right harmonic position of each pup AND to catch each string ?  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the J is located at 3\/4 of the scale : I\u2019ve chosen a bridge unit, so that the string-spacing stays ok in the neck position when tilted a little bit.\n<li>the P is located at 5\/6 of the scale : translating a little bit the two coils gives the change.\n<li>the soapbar is located at 9\/10 of the scale : rather than asking for an expensive Delano custom pup, I\u2019ve chosen a five string humbucker with blades instead of individuals magnets, so that its large sensing area is able to cover each string, specially the E when the pup is switched in single coil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about the tones ? Among the 15 combinations, my favorite ones are :  <\/p>\n<p>a) vintage tones :  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J + P (tone on 3) gives a sweet mellow sound very rich in harmonics, I\u2019ve never heard it before on any bass I\u2019ve played.\n<li>P alone (tone on 3) gives a real old Pbass sound, but more aggressive.\n<li>J + soapbar in single mode (tone on 4) : I was surprising not to get something like a Jazz Bass, but in fact it sounds rather like a 4003 !<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>b) modern tones :  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>soapbar alone in parallel mode gives a well-defined tone, but there\u2019s much treble for me, that can be controled thanks to the first position of the tone styler.\n<li>soapbar alone in series mode : nothing else but a massive destruction weapon in every tone positions !<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let\u2019s sum up : Rickenbacker 4005 shape inspiration, Fender main pickups combination, Musicman banana plate and inspired-bridge pup : may I call this bass &#8220;my Rickenderman?&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"1- entie\u0300re\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1- entie\u0300re\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/1-entiere.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"3- dos entie\u0300re\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"3- dos entie\u0300re\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/3-dos-entiere.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"5- dos te\u0302te\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"5- dos te\u0302te\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/5-dos-tete.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"2- corps\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"2- corps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2-corps.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img title=\"4- dos corps\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"4- dos corps\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/4-dos-corps.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\"><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you certainly may call this the Rickenderman. \ud83d\ude42 Well done!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want <i>YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week?<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/botw-entry\"><strong>Submit yours now using our easy web form<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See the business listing for this bass builder here This week&#8217;s bass guitar of the week has influences from a Rickenbacker 4005, Fender, and Music Man. Bass builder Pierre-Gilles writes: Except some small pieces of walnut here and there, it\u2019s a full-maple instrument. The neck is glued through a twin-chamber body, there\u2019s a fanned fret &#8230; <a title=\"[Bass of the Week] The Rickenderman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/bass-of-the-week-the-rickenderman.html\" aria-label=\"More on [Bass of the Week] The Rickenderman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[44,51,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707"}],"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=6707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}