Readers of this column will recall the ‘Quick-ish Connect’ system that I recently installed in that big ‘swimming pool’ rout, providing a versatile pickup-testing platform. And so the world is now my oyster – we do like a bit of choice in The Mod Squad, after all. Having been involved in a fair bit of recording over lockdown and out the other side, I seem to have been adopted as the guy that gets different sounds. In the early lockdown months, the first thing I did was borrow my mate’s Rickenbacker 620 [pic 1]. I don’t own one myself and never seem to be able to justify actually buying one, not least that their specific (peculiar?) feel and sound has never fitted into my usual bluesy, rocky gigs. But on the sort of song-based recordings I’ve been asked to contribute to, especially ones with those 60s-meets-90s Britpop sounds, Rickie sound is addictive. I’ve relearned during these countless recordings, from wonky demos to finished masters, that different sounds and textures really work. I
