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I have four Gibsons from 2011 to 2021. Every one is great. Although I’ll admit that the ‘13 NR could use a fret end dress due to a bit of sprout (nothing bad by any means). I do not believe in keeping basses in cases. A little sprout is to be expected once in awhile.
That is weird. From what I read long ago, Gibson calls the taps “tone taps.” I don’t believe they function as splitting between double and single coil. But I don’t recall anything about the switches changing the wiring from series to parallel either. We could ask DeCola, but I’m not sure he’d give up any trade secrets.Neat A/B comparison. It’s definitely what I’m hearing with mine as well, the 2015 is generally a bit brighter with more detail in each note than my 2013.
However, correct me if I’m wrong, but I was under the impression the 2015 toggles were to cut from full humbucker to single coil on each individual pickup, not to go from series to parallel as implied in the YouTube clip. Also, sounded like the YouTuber recorded two sets of both/neck/bridge examples for the 2015 but he called both examples “series”. So not only is he mistaken about the switch functions but he didn’t correctly call out which example is which switch setting. Knit picking aside, it did accurately represent what I hear with my 2015 vs my Anniversary bird.
And now the interesting and odd ball quirk that I have with both my 2015 Tbird and my 2013 EB5 (which has the same pups) - if I play either bass for more than an hour straight I get a ripping migraine headache. None of my other basses have that effect on me even if I play them longer and louder. It’s really bizarre. Can’t explain why it happens. I sometimes wonder if there’s some sub sonic or possibly super high frequency or microphonic noise emitted from those pups or maybe a unique pressure spike at a specific frequency that I can’t readily hear but that somehow stresses out my ear drums. Doesn’t seem to effect my wife at all, just me.
The good news is I haven't heard any voices in my head yet telling me to buy more Thunderbirds.
Nice finish.the worst one…
I don’t think I’d be in the market for a firebird base pickup for $200!
I’m leaning toward one of these for the DC, if I do that I may put the Duncan’s from my exploderbird in the EB..
I’ve got a set of Powersteels on my J, but I find they are too bright. I’m going to swap them onto my Eagle.
I’ve done it a few times. I’ve also converted a P neck into a J.
A previous owner did it on my MIJ Ric. The skunk stripe is very thin. Which I could see because it was cracked in the middle of the neck when I got the bass.
I would absolutely do it with the RNR if I knew it was safe.A previous owner did it on my MIJ Ric. The skunk stripe is very thin. Which I could see because it was cracked in the middle of the neck when I got the bass.
I saved it with epoxy and you can’t tell, but I agree with proceeding with caution.
I can picture the sound guy saying, "Just had to bring not one, but two SVTs, did ya?We used to go to the Boulevard Diner after gigs late at night, it's still operating. Ralph's Chadwick Square diner at the bottom is actually attached to Worcester's punk club, I used to play there with a upright with a magnetic pickup and two SVT set ups, the stuff in my avatar, was a little overkill, I feel bad for the soundman there now thinking of that..
I had a satellite service on one of the cars for a while and it was interesting to hear some music that I otherwise would have likely never encountered. Then again there was a lot to give a reason to turn the radio off or change the channel. But somebody liked it.
something FAT about mahogany, humbuckers and wattage…
A bird is good for Blues. I used my '64 T-bird when I played w/the Eddie Taylor Blues Band from the late '70s-mid '80s in Chicago. It was still a II then (I installed the Seymour Duncan Hawkbucker in '87) and I played through a solid state '70s Acoustic 150 w/2x15. Both Eddie & Steve played red Gibson ES-335's (Eddie had the deluxe version) so we were a Gibson-centric band! Unfortunately not one pic from that era ~ Back then only tourists and students had cameras!
I call that jazz. Then no one can say otherwise.Right notes? I just play notes.
Barely, at that.
