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[H8Red442]

i see you have the B.C. Rich thing going on, i love that KV2, nice top on it

Yeah it's a little bit of an addiction. Gotta show the love for the KV2 though.

Nice collection, how much fun is the electronics on those Richs?

Actually those electronics while they look cool annoy me. I have them disconnected on the Mockingbird and the Bich with the Floyd.

Nice! How long did you have to wait for the Wave? Cool to see they all match (all Supremes!) too. Here's my '82/'83 Wave.

It was a couple weeks shy of 11 months. Only thing that pisses me off is apparently these days the walnut stringers aren't standard in the Supreme package so the Wave is missing them. Had I known I would have ordered them. Oh well. It still sounds, looks and plays amazingly. The balance is right on par with the KV2.


Thanks for the feedback everyone!

[Lorne]

That Wave is stunning mate,congrats-and it has a Quad,even better

Here's some of mine

[H8Red442]

Thanks Lorne. I had them put a Quad in there because I've just grown tired of fussing with a floyd. The other Bich and MOckingbird had quads as well but I threw a tone pros wraparound on them because of intonation problems. I may do the same with the Wave but it's perfect right now so I'm probably just going to leave it alone.

Nice Rich Basses. Love the 8 string Bich. I guess all I have left on my list for guitars is a 10 string bich!

[Lorne]

Thanks Lorne. I had them put a Quad in there because I've just grown tired of fussing with a floyd. The other Bich and MOckingbird had quads as well but I threw a tone pros wraparound on them because of intonation problems. I may do the same with the Wave but it's perfect right now so I'm probably just going to leave it alone.

Nice Rich Basses. Love the 8 string Bich. I guess all I have left on my list for guitars is a 10 string bich!

Thanks mate,that is a 1985 Supreme Bich bass,one of only about 20 ever made
The Mockingbird was played by Phil Lynott on a Thin Lizzy video

I've PM'd you BTW

Lorne

[Sukisyn]

Great looking guitar and quite the collection of Riches!!!

[Jacksonfan]

That KV2 is out of place there......... Send it to me at once!!!!
















Very nice group of guitars you have!

[jwoods986]

Nice collection! But what in the world are all the knobs/switches on the Wave Supreme? I assume the one closest toward the neck is volume, then a 3-way pup selector, then either another volume or tone, then tone? Then I would guess coil-splitting but there are more switches than pups -lol. I'm confused.

[H8Red442]

Nice collection! But what in the world are all the knobs/switches on the Wave Supreme? I assume the one closest toward the neck is volume, then a 3-way pup selector, then either another volume or tone, then tone? Then I would guess coil-splitting but there are more switches than pups -lol. I'm confused.

The Mockingbird and Wave electronics are

Volume
Tone
Preamp Volume
Pickup selector
6 position varitone (chicken head switch)
Preamp on/off
2 coil taps
Phase switch

The Bich full active package is the same with separate volume for each pickup and phase and coil taps for each pickup

[Sanctuary]

Erm, the Bich circuit has dual overdrives so it's a bit different again. It's also not an active circuit.

Here's a graphical representation of the basic (non-Bich) full circuit:

[Sanctuary]

The other Bich and MOckingbird had quads as well but I threw a tone pros wraparound on them because of intonation problems.

Looking at the Tone Pros bridge I'm surprised. Can you give us more information on exactly why the Quads couldn't intonate?

[daisp]

nice family!

[H8Red442]

Erm, the Bich circuit has dual overdrives so it's a bit different again. It's also not an active circuit.

Here's a graphical representation of the basic (non-Bich) full circuit:

How is that any different than what I said? And how is it not an active circuit? I suppose the 9V battery is there for decoration?

Looking at the Tone Pros bridge I'm surprised. Can you give us more information on exactly why the Quads couldn't intonate?

It's easy, the design of the quad lets the ultra wound section of the string by the ball of the string to come in contact with the saddles and limits the travel of the saddles to increase the length of the string. You can only pull he saddle back so far before it comes in contact with the ultra wound part o the string and in some cases you can't intonate it. you can move the bridge back with the hex screws that are in the back of the bridge to lengthen those strings but this resulted in the bridge tilting and not having full contact with the posts.

The warparound TonePros eliminates this by hiding the ultra wound part of the string under the bridge because it wraps around, this provides more room for the saddle to move back and forth and elminates the need to pull the bridge back with the hex screws installed in the bridge although it is still an option. On top of this the TonePros has locking studs that keep the bridge flat.

[Sanctuary]

How is that any different than what I said? And how is it not an active circuit? I suppose the 9V battery is there for decoration?

Technically, it boosts the input signal (hence the "booster" switch). You can actually remove the 9V battery and the rest of the electronics will function as normal. As such, it's not a real "active" circuit.

Thanks for the explanation on the Quad. I haven't encountered that problem yet.

[Lorne]

Yep Sanctuary is right,unless the booster is in the "On" position,the guitar is running in Passive mode,it's only when the booster is on,that the guitar is Active

[H8Red442]

Far as I can tell Sanctuary is nit picking. It's an active circuit but to BE active has to be turned on. Well no shit. It's still an active circuit but can also be run in passive mode.