Product: Rickenbacker 480
Price Paid: N/A used
Submitted
05/07/2001
at
03:21am
by
Peter
Features
:
8
Made in the USA, March 1974, 24 frets. Two single-coil pickups, low output, 3-way selector and 2 tone/volume controls per pickup. Design is similar to the famous 4000 bass. Maple body and neck, bolt-on, two trussrods, maple-glo finish. Kluson tuners. Rosewood fingerboard, finished with clear lacquer. Neck is quite small and has a D shape. Body has no bindings but the fingerboard has.
Sound
:
7
Sounds very thin, clear, very sweet. Pickups have very low output. Not noisy at all. Very disturbing is that the neck pickup is almost twice as loud as the bridge pickup, even if the neck is lowered as much as possible and the bridge has been put as high as possible. I think I'll switch them. Sound is suitable for funk and 'romantic' chords. Definitively not suitable for rock or metal.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
Very low action possible, no buzzing. No flaws detected. Well built guitar.
Reliability/Durability
:
8
It's dependable but not versatile enough to use it as a #1 guitar
Customer Support
:
1
Did ask them about the pickups but they said I had to go to a luthier. Seems to me they don't have any data on this guitar anymore or won't talk about it.
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
See my entry at El Degas (Plexi Strat)
