Episode 3: Pronouncing and Storytelling on the Rickenbacker
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มี.ค. 2019
- In Episode 3 of The Local Pickup, Jason and Chris discuss the history of the Rickenbacker and do their best to pronounce it as they were told to. Check out TheLocalPickup.com to see more content and guitars/gear. Rock Hill, SC.
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Good video, however, a few corrections:
Everyone gets the 5th knob wrong. It's not a drive or gain, but yes, it does only effect the neck pickup. What it actually is, and you can see this by looking at their schematic directly from their website and it will suddenly make sense to you when you understand, is it's just a potentiometer wired as a variable resistor. It is wired between the neck pickup and the neck pickup's volume knob, so turning it up basically increases resistance and reduces the signal that's getting through to the neck pickup's volume knob. It's almost like another volume knob for the neck pickup that comes before the volume knob but it works backwards. Turning it up reduces the signal by increasing resistance, turning it down lowers resistance and lets the entire signal get through to the volume knob where you can then decide to turn it up or down even more. I think it's totally redundant and stupid, I modded mine to be a master volume because that's actually useful.
Also, the ric-o-sound is unrelated to the 330. The Ric-o-sound is specific to the guitars with two outputs (one mono, one stereo) like the 360 and the 4003 bass. The stereo output is the "ric-o-sound". The 360 is basically the same guitar as the 330 with a few minor differences:
- it has binding
- It has a rounder body shape
- it has triangular "sharktooth" inlays on the neck instead of the dots
- and it has two outputs, the normal/mono and the "ric-o-sound/stereo"
The way it works is you can send your signal out normally with the mono output jack, or you can use a stereo cable with a Y-splitter and send the signal from each pickup to two different amps (or two different whatever you want, it just separates the pickups from each other). THAT is the "Ric-o-sound". They used to sell a specific ric-o-sound cable/box that was basically a stereo cable with a splitter box on the end of it, but that's not really necessary when you can use any Y cable.
They don't make ANY lower end guitars out of the country, I'm not sure where you picked that up, but they still make everything in Santa Ana, California as usual. They're very stubborn about this, they absolutely refuse to increase or change production at all, they just keep increasing prices to deal with demand rather than ramping up the amount they make or making any lower end models made anywhere else. If they did finally cave and start making some guitars elsewhere, it must be totally new news I've not heard before and I'm curious where I can read about that because that would be a major ordeal in the Ric world.
It's also not a full hollow body, it's still technically a semi-hollow, it does have a center block that is connected to the neck which is how they connect the neck to the body. The body is carved out in a really unique way (see their factory tour) where a solid block is CNC'd out, it cuts the different chambers of the interior with the top of the guitar facing down, then they glue on a back and then CNC the outside shape with those two pieces put together. They assemble the neck separately then combine them together. It is almost entirely hollow, but it still has separate chambers and a center block, like if you pull the pickup out, you will see it's a closed off chamber with the exception of some space given for the wires to pass through to the main chamber. The pickups screw right into the center block.
By the way, thanks for mentioning Laura Jane Grace and Fugazi, you never see people mention them, Ric videos are always "blah blah blah The Byrds and Beatles," and nothing else. I got into them from Against Me! and The Jam...mostly The Jam though. Also, thanks for saying "Nevada" correctly, I'm from LA, so I think we're close enough proximity to know the correct way to say it, but I cringe when people say "Nev-aw-duh" (and New York based news jerks say it that way all the time).
Wow!! Thank you for this crazy awesome comment!
Shea was 65, and George received his first 12 string Rick in 64.
Of course John’s Rick was the tiny short scale 325 (20 3/4”!) and REM/Bryds is more the sound of a Rick 12 string.
Actually R.E.M. is more Rick 6 string with some 12 string thrown in there.
So nice to hear the correct pronunciation of RickenbacKer. Ive bought my first in 1966 and since then more and more people call it RickenbacHer.
Nice Post! I Have The Ric 381/12v69FG & The Ric 350v63JG; I Absolutely Love Them! Also Have A Ric 4003W On It's Way, So I'm Looking Forward To That. ThankYou Again, Mike.
Adolph Rickenbacker (April 3, 1886 - March 21, 1976) was a Swiss-American electrical engineer who co-founded the Rickenbacker guitar company along with George Beauchamp and Paul Barth.
Rickenbacker was born in Basel, Switzerland as Adolf Rickenbacher. He immigrated in 1891 to the United States with older relatives after his parents died, settling in Columbus Ohio and later southern California. He Anglicized both his own name, and that of his company, to Rickenbacker to capitalize on the popularity of his distant cousin, America's top Flying Ace Eddie Rickenbacker. The World War I ace himself had felt pressure to change the spelling of his name because of the wave of anti-German sentiment caused by the war, in an effort to "take the Hun out of his name." Eddie was already well known at the time, so the change received wide publicity. "From then on", as he wrote in his autobiography, "most Rickenbachers were practically forced to spell their name in the way I had..."[1]
Adolph Rickenbacker died from cancer in Orange County, California in 1976 at the age of 89.
Adolph Rickenbacher and George Beauchamp founded the company in 1931 as the Ro-Pat-In Corporation (ElectRo-Patent-Instruments) to sell electric Hawaiian guitars. Beauchamp had designed these instruments, assisted by Paul Barth and Harry Watson, at National String Instrument Corporation.[1] They chose the brand name Rickenbacher(later changing the spelling to Rickenbacker). Early examples bear the brand name Electro.
(Look under How to pronounce Adolph Rickenbacker: HowToPronounce.com) And the recording pronounces Adolf Rickenbacker as Adolf Rickenbacher. So Rickenbacher is correct not Rickenbacker as the company says it is. They are pronouncing a Switzerland name as an english name which its not. Like the spanish last name Marin. People always try to pronounce it as Maren, or Mar-in, when in fact the right pronounciation is Ma-deen, which translates to Marine. Just because a name or word is spelled a certain way doesn't mean its pronounced that way.
"HowToPronounce.com" is incorrect. Their recordings are from contributors, many of whom are uninformed. This is a German name, and the third syllable is pronounced the same as the composer Bach - not with a short o, but with a Latin long A (ah) followed by the aspirated H. The Americanized pronunciation is as John Hall, manager of Rickenbacker Corp., has rendered it in TH-cam videos, in which the third syllable is pronounced "back", not "bock". The guitar's name should be pronounced in its Americanized form, just as French pronunciations are not used for US place names such as Calais, ME, and Notre Dame, IN.
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2. 325v63
3. 360/12 mapleglo
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And yes it is most definitely RickenBACKer. It’s maddening to hear “bacher”
Rickenbacker is a German name so to pronounce it like Germans it’s like Ricken-Bach-Er. But as Americans it’s pronounced Ricken-Back-Er.
I played guitar all day and now my Bach hurts.
The original frying pan was spelled “Rickenbacher”…that’s the German variation…RickenBACKer is very much Americanized and pronounced as such 😅
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If u cover the guitar you HAVE to cover the bass version of these. They are absolutely legendary.
Also maybe cover danalectro.
There's a whole other level of history to go into with Rickenbacker basses! Hopefully we can do that sometime soon.
Also, we're planning on covering Danelectro at some point! They're definitely an important player that define an era.
This is really good.
Those that call it anything but a Rickenbacker are due a visit to Hades in my book.
Every review or whatever that call it a bocker or bacher or booker or what have you get the off treatment.
Doesn't mater if it's a car, airport, waterfall or guitar: Rickenbacker
Any discussion of the Ric has to include The Byrds and Roger McGuinn.
Don't forget Carl Wilson
When you pronounce it the "correct" way, it always makes you sound like you're from Maine or Vermont.
I know. It's hard for us to do, but we're trying! haha
People from Maine don't sound like people from Vermont.
the original spelling (Rickenbacher) was pronounced Bawck-er by the man who created the company Adolf Rickenbacher
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