Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

Maybe they’re better suited to pick playing, which I don’t really do. I might go with lighter gauge set instead.

 

[GonePlaid]

One more thing, if the neck can handle them, you can put the action really low with no buzzing so they're really not that hard to play, you'd probably have to have someone open up your nut though or they'll ride on top making the first few frets uncomfortably high. Gibson necks seem pretty strong to me.

'Til the HS snaps off.

 

[bobyoung53]

'Til the HS snaps off.

That's always a possibility.

 

[bobyoung53]

'Til the HS snaps off.

Steve Harris uses .110 Rotosound flats and his signature P basses com with a thicker headstock.

 

[D.M.N.]

Just finished loading in new speakers and rewiring my Vox 4x12s. Put two Eminence Basslite S2012s in each cab, along with two Eminence "Carvin British Series" in each in an x-pattern. Each cab now is 8 ohms. Previously each cab had 4 Celestion Neo Dogs, 60w speakers, that I've been using for a while. They work decently, but are guitar speakers and pretty "laser-beam" in their functionality. So, after debating on what speaker to replace them with, I found 4 Basslites cheap on Music Go Round and combined them with some speakers I was saving for a 6x12 refurb. I'll keep and eye out for Deltalite or Basslites going forward and swap the guitar speakers when I'm able. But for now, these cabs sound pretty damn big. They're oversized for 4x12s, 36x27.5x14, and work pretty well as bass cabs. Not massive lows, but capable of more than I usually run. Got the idea from an old JohnK post where he loaded an Ampeg V4 cab with neo speakers and really liked it. Gonna run this set-up at our show tonight!

Also picked up a label maker recently and decided to make some new labels of the rear of the Hiwatt.

 

[JIO]

The car or the woman? I assume the structure is a little older.

Well, ahem...the car is an item...

 

[GonePlaid]

Just finished loading in new speakers and rewiring my Vox 4x12s. Put two Eminence Basslite S2012s in each cab, along with two Eminence "Carvin British Series" in each in an x-pattern. Each cab now is 8 ohms. Previously each cab had 4 Celestion Neo Dogs, 60w speakers, that I've been using for a while. They work decently, but are guitar speakers and pretty "laser-beam" in their functionality. So, after debating on what speaker to replace them with, I found 4 Basslites cheap on Music Go Round and combined them with some speakers I was saving for a 6x12 refurb. I'll keep and eye out for Deltalite or Basslites going forward and swap the guitar speakers when I'm able. But for now, these cabs sound pretty damn big. They're oversized for 4x12s, 36x27.5x14, and work pretty well as bass cabs. Not massive lows, but capable of more than I usually run. Got the idea from an old JohnK post where he loaded an Ampeg V4 cab with neo speakers and really liked it. Gonna run this set-up at our show tonight!

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Also picked up a label maker recently and decided to make some new labels of the rear of the Hiwatt.

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Cool! Nice and light, I assume.

 

[dagrev]

So these ones…
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…I assume it’s not too much tension for a non compromised intact BaCH headstock, correct?

I'd go with the regular DTFs (or the lower tensions).

 

[D.M.N.]

Cool! Nice and light, I assume.

Not terrible, and certainly less than my Sunn cabs. The original Celestions are 3.7 lbs, the Basslites are 4.1 lbs, and the Carvins are...well, typical heavy ceramics. Still, the cabs are pretty manageable.

 

[GBassNorth]

I'd go with the regular DTFs (or the lower tensions).

I think that’s the plan now.

 

[Gaolee]

I think we're doing this @Chucky Stiletti place, watermelon helmets required for safety, I of course will do it in a dress and heels.

Looks like fun to me. What?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I did a little cleanup and added a couple of things to the Wikipedia Thunderbird page. If anyone wants to suggest edits but doesn't want to do them, please let me know. There's lots more work to do there (including more dead links- replacement links welcome. No watermelons.). And cites are always a plus.

 

[KaraQ]

Thunderbird Thursday!

 

[dagrev]

I did a little cleanup and added a couple of things to the Wikipedia Thunderbird page. If anyone wants to suggest edits but doesn't want to do them, please let me know. There's lots more work to do there (including more dead links- replacement links welcome. No watermelons.). And cites are always a plus.

Thanks!

 

[dagrev]

Thunderbird Thursday!

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Would you stop with the Peavey thing? You really have me missing my old Peavey head (and cab).

 

[Instagator]

Thunderbird Thursday from the back of the room..Cheers.

 

[JJR58]

One of us is drunk. . Cool pic.

Actually, I wasn’t.
But thought you guys would get a kick out of it and think I was loopy.

 

[JJR58]

I find the TIs generally brighter and the mids (which are very present) tend to be mid to upper mids. Pyramids seem darker and thicker sounding to me. Mids seem lower. Kind of like GHS Precision Flats, which have good low mids, but are slightly brighter than the Pyramids, but not as much as TIs or EBCFs.

I actually put on a very well broken in set of TI’s on my white Bird.
It now sounds like a Hofner.

 

[Nocturnal]

This review/demo of the Gibson Sixx Bird was in my YouTube feed this morning.

 

[BklynKen]

This review/demo of the Gibson Sixx Bird was in my YouTube feed this morning.

I love how the photo he shows of Nikki isn't with a Thunderbird.