Jerry tone from Rickenbacker 650d
PostPosted:Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:46 pm
Hi everyone. I’ve been a long time lurker on here and this is my first post. I’ve spent the last year accumulating the usual starter pack of Jerry tone: silver face twin with a lot of new caps and components, RCA black plate powertubes and RCA preamp tubes, and jbl speakers - got an e120 and k120 in the same cab, which has a semi-enclosed and foam lined back panel.
My guitar, however, is unique and I’ve never seen anyone going for a Jerry type of tone with it. I’ve owned the Rickenbacker 650d since I was 16 - it was my first real electric guitar, and I’ve yet to find another guitar with its attributes: 1.75 nut width with compound radius 24 fret neck, which is maple, and runs through the body with walnut wings and two Rickenbacker mini humbuckers. It has tones over sweet overtones and sustain. The Tung oil finish feels great and the guitar balances beautifully against one’s body and in one’s hands. I’ve recently coil-tapped the pickups and wired them to the tone knobs, so that there is a gradient between humbucker and single coils. I find a sweet spot in the 70/30 - 80-20 ratio of single cool to humbucker.... I also installed the redeemer buffer since it has a smaller circuit than the wald buffer. I am contemplating other mods to the amp, but I’m surprisingly pleased with the quality of the tones and harmonics so far. It’s really a lovely instrument and I feel it embodies a lot of spaces between the Sg era, the wall of sound era, and the Travis bean era without being a perfect copy of any of them. Let me know what you think and if anyone has experience with this guitar. Here’s a clip of some noodling from a few months ago using the middle position. Please excuse the iPhone quality sound...
https://youtu.be/ZqvksGWq6Jo
My guitar, however, is unique and I’ve never seen anyone going for a Jerry type of tone with it. I’ve owned the Rickenbacker 650d since I was 16 - it was my first real electric guitar, and I’ve yet to find another guitar with its attributes: 1.75 nut width with compound radius 24 fret neck, which is maple, and runs through the body with walnut wings and two Rickenbacker mini humbuckers. It has tones over sweet overtones and sustain. The Tung oil finish feels great and the guitar balances beautifully against one’s body and in one’s hands. I’ve recently coil-tapped the pickups and wired them to the tone knobs, so that there is a gradient between humbucker and single coils. I find a sweet spot in the 70/30 - 80-20 ratio of single cool to humbucker.... I also installed the redeemer buffer since it has a smaller circuit than the wald buffer. I am contemplating other mods to the amp, but I’m surprisingly pleased with the quality of the tones and harmonics so far. It’s really a lovely instrument and I feel it embodies a lot of spaces between the Sg era, the wall of sound era, and the Travis bean era without being a perfect copy of any of them. Let me know what you think and if anyone has experience with this guitar. Here’s a clip of some noodling from a few months ago using the middle position. Please excuse the iPhone quality sound...
https://youtu.be/ZqvksGWq6Jo
