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Thunderbird Club

#204,002
JIO said:
TSC's had our last rehearsal earlier for our Easter Sunday show, the 1st of '22. We're ready. It wasn't "perfect", but we are all game-day-players - I know we will be on once the downbeat hits. Regardless of level - no-one wants to embarrass themselves right?. :) So I know we can provide an acceptable show - that's a given at this point. What makes it all worth while in the long run is us having a great time/having fun while doing it! That's what I'm looking forward to!

I'm going with a bass that I have 100% confidence in based on most any criteria (and.., I've used it live with TSC's before with great success) - a bass that delivers the goods every time. It's not a T-bird - but a Dano is every bit as iconic as a T-bird in every way. My '68 Coral Deluxe Bass (Dano made) is more-or-less the same bass as a '63 Danelectro Dane. Same year as the Gen1 T-bird II. Something about this bass resonates w/me.

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Lipstick pickups ... will you be wearing matching lipstick?
 
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#204,003
Chucky Stiletti said:
thx Jeff…quick anecdote…playing with an Italian guitarist tomorrow whose father is a very prominent attorney in Italy (Bologna) and wanted his son to become a lawyer as well, used to hang out with his sister (lawyer as well) in Italy years ago….
this guy basically told his pop he had zero interest and ended up at the GIT in LA instead lol…..great player and a BIG Clapton fan…..got to go over this one which I wasn’t really familiar with….cool tune…
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Ohhhh, i so wish i could be there!!!

See if you can get someone to take pics/a vid maybe too.
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
thx Jeff…quick anecdote…playing with an Italian guitarist tomorrow whose father is a very prominent attorney in Italy (Bologna) and wanted his son to become a lawyer as well, used to hang out with his sister (lawyer as well) in Italy years ago….
this guy basically told his pop he had zero interest and ended up at the GIT in LA instead lol…..great player and a BIG Clapton fan…..got to go over this one which I wasn’t really familiar with….cool tune…
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We’ve been doing that and Pretending from the same album. Was unknown to me too before.
 
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#204,007
Gaolee said:
It's the spectacular mother of toilet-seat pick guard. That's the only thing I miss about the Coral Wasp I had back when.
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Have yet to encounter one - but they look cool. It has other similar features like the grafted-on solid rosewood hs (neck is light-hued poplar finished with a dark walnut stain) and sculpted body. Love the beveled metal control plate - it has the angle jack port like on my CDB. The fb although short-scale looks as wide as my full scale CDB and w/o much taper nut to heal. I bet it is fun to play.

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#204,014
KaraQ said:
For those of you that are smarter than me and/or are better at electronics than me, I have a question....

I'd like to set up my CP's pickup controls in such a way so that when all knobs are at "10", the pickups are essentially wired straight to the output jack (like a Blackbird).

Without the volume drop that is normal (from having two volume pots? ) when both volumes are on full.

I know I'll need a no-load tone pot (250k? 500k? It's got a 250k regular tone pot atm), but I'm not sure how to wire the volume pots to get what i want.
I suppose I could drop one of them, wire it like my Epi Blackbird, but.....I'd rather work out a way to keep both volumes.


Any ideas or suggestions?
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Even with no-load pots, when the pickups are connected together, there will be an interaction (phase cancellation) that will cause the volume drop.
A preamp with separate inputs for each pickup would do it or…
Wire the bass for “stereo” and send each pickup signal to its own channel on your Peavey.
 
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#204,019
Engle said:
Even with no-load pots, when the pickups are connected together, there will be an interaction (phase cancellation) that will cause the volume drop.
A preamp with separate inputs for each pickup would do it or…
Wire the bass for “stereo” and send each pickup signal to its own channel on your Peavey.
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Or wire the pickups in series. When both pickups are on there's a slight boost instead of a volume drop and you'll lose the treble a bit too 'though.
 
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