Rickenbacker 220

hecho en USA en el a?o 93. 24 trastes.tipo de cuerpo solido. 2 potenciometros: 1 de tono y 1 de volumen. 2 mic humbucker rickenbaker. body, neck and fingerboard maple. clavijas schaller. switch de 3 posiciones. viene con estuche rigido original de pana azul.

ideal para muchos tipos de sonidos. yo toco habitualmente blues y rock y suena perfecto. muy versatil. segun la posicion del switch podes sacarle sonidos strato o les paul. los microfonos son de excelente calidad y he tenido muchas guitarras y esta es la que mas me gusto.en seteo limpio la guitarra la rompe....es el mejor sonido que he escuchado y con distorsion tiene mucho cuerpo los graves y los agudos....ideal para solos...

debido a que esta hecho con maderas seleccionadas y materiales de primera calidad esta viola es un todo terreno. despues de casi 15 a?os y con un buen cuidado, esta siguue sonando como el primer dia.

como estas guitarras vas a encontrar pocas. por algo son un poco caras. pro si tenes la posibilidad de tener una, no te vas a arrepentir en absoluto. satisfaccion 100% garantizada. despues de tener muchas violas como: Ibanez RX series, Ranger Usa strato series, Washburn Lyon series, Riverhead (no me acuerdo el modelo), Axtar by Ibanez, Hondo II Les paul custom, esta es la mejor lejos que he tocado. no la cambio por nada.

Bought this one brandnew in 2000, whereas it dates from 199, according to the serial number. A long shelf-life didn't do anythihg to this beautiful solidbody. Satin finish maple neck on a jetglow(=black)body, in a just off-strat style sporting a white pickgard in recognisable Rick shape. Two controls,(one volume one tone) and a three way selector for the two Rick very high gain pickups.
Pickups adjustable from the rear, which makes the body on the front mor solid: no fixtures.
24-fret full scale slim neck cleverly fitted to body so that the last fret can be accessed with ease. Double tuss-rod (Rickenbacker feature) allows very precise adjustment is needed. Grover tuners, I believe, very easy handling without slack.
Bridge is Rickenbacker's own version of Tune-O-Matic: very precise.
Came in Rickenbacker case, very solid, rectangtluar shape, fitted inside with dark blue velvet.

Unplugged it is the clearest soud I ever heard from a solidbody, including a Gibson LP custum I've owned and played for years. Practising is fun: all bends and slides even within a chord sound like they would comng through an amp.
Plugged in it's a miracle. I heven't played it through a valve-amp yet, but my small Fender-type bassamp (with 15inch speaker)it is lovely. Instant changes from rythm to solo are with the selector, and the treble pickup shears through all harmonies giiving way for small accents on particular overtones. Getting better all the time!!

The action is one of the truly incredible things about this guitat. Straight out of the case, after a shelf-life of almost seven years, I've never played any guitar with this kind of ease. In the shop I compared it to Fender Strat and I fell for the Rick immediately. Not to foo myself, I repeated the experiment a couple of days later, and the same thing happened. I even compared it to another new Rick in the shop. I decided to stay with the satin finish neck instead of the laquer finish. That's when I took it home. Some very skicht adjustemnt on the lower strings action had to be made after a couple of days. Just to make sure there's no rattle whatsoever. Since then, both guitarists in the band in which I play bass-guitar (also a Rick btw)pick it up regularlily and do not stop playing it. Usually, the lead guitarist lowers the volume on his amp without us having to tell him to do so.

This guitar has now been used during a couple of party gigs. One of them in a rather extreme temperature. I took it as a tuned spare, it feel over once and I had to retune it. When one of the guitarists broke a string, he picked up my Rick 220 and played on. After the song, the solo-guitarist took it, passing on his Fender strat. We finised the gig this way, and the people at the party enjoyed to dance as much as we loved to play for them.
The solo-guitarist offered me quite a bit money for my guitar afterwards. Never enough, though.
At a next gig, no stings were broken, and we played all our regular instuments.

There was hardly any, as there was no need. I've known the shop
for many years. I bought my bass-guitar there in 1982.
When I collected it (on my request, they didn't do a final adjust; it was fine as it was) they told me I could come in any tome to have
it adjusted if I wanted to. No charge in the first year. I should come when the year is nearly over, they urged. Pretty nice.

I've been playing guitar for over thirty years now. I started off as a bass-player and spent a fortune on different basses and guitars.
On both I reached semi-pro status in a multitude of bands.
In 1982 I settled on a Rickenbacker 3000 short scale bass. As I wasn't using my Gibson LP Custom I sold it to buy a better bass-amp, and was wighout a guitar for a number of years. When somebody who had quit playing alltogether gave me his Fender telecaster (hoping I was going to buy it)I really started to want a better one one myself.
It took me over a year to decide, and another six months to run into the one I have now. It was expensive, but worth every penny. And I don't even regret selling the Gibson any more.

Solid body. Made of Eastern hard rock maple (meaning mostly that it hurt last time I clonked myself upside the head with it.) Fairly basic features; two humbucking pickups, one volume, one tone. Bolt-on neck. Ric Fireglo finish. Schaller tuners, fairly thin neck. Standard RIC double trussrods. Only thing I'm wishing for is Ric-O-Sound.

I use either a Vox or a Fender amp, usually no effects. Sound couldn't be better. Extremely versatile; with treble and reverb turned up, can do drippy surf rock. Also does fine with dark SG-esque distortion, more subdued acoustic-like tone for chord work, searing glass-breaking treble if desired, anything you can think of. Resonates just as well as any Les Paul I've used and has a much thicker sound than the average Fender.

Bought used, so I don't know if any alterations had already been made. Action when I got it was perfect. RIC Fireglo finish is perfect, and I think looks much nicer than the usual dark brown sunburst used by other companies. Action suits me perfect; I've had it almost a year and haven't had to change a thing. One thing Ric REALLY did right is that the screws for adjusting pickups are in the BACK of the guitar; makes adjustments much easier since there are no strings to get in the way.

Constructed with Eastern hard rock maple so probably couldn't bust it without trying REALLY hard. German-made precision Schaller tuners. I'd say she could manage most anything.

Don't know and hope I don't find out.

RIC does it right. I've used Fender for quite awhile, but find though Fender is a great company, RICS just sound better. Every model STILL handmade in the USA in this day and age? Unbeatable. Workmanship puts Gibson to shame; I've seen some of their "handmade" guitars with action all wrong, glue hanging out of the joint, etc. This 220 is my favorite guitar (I also have a Palmer and Fender), and I would go into quite a rage if anything happened to it.