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Thunderbird Club
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Dirty old man......more famous last words.
... Ummm, I'm talkin about butt bows, what are you talkin about?
What you talking about, Willis?
"Haw-yeah!! I got a new 'Bird!!"
No, it's just a thing to say that starts with "H"! I'm back to being poor for a while...
I posted this in the "GK Club Rules!" club (lol, of course it's arguably close, but... ha ha), posting it here too 'cause I know that Her Grace, and many of the rest of us 'Birders use GK amperage. Any thoughts? Thanks for your time!
1001RB-II question here, concerning gain structure.
I have found that the 1001RB-II head is so loud it's got me sitting down, dumbfounded on how to get it together to get what I think I want out of it. The set up is this:
Epiphone Blackbird, modded w/volume pots>
1001RB-II>
Neutrik plug equipped cable, enabling Bi-Amp mode>
GK NEO212-II cab.
Gain structure has me willied. In such a situation, how do you set yours? Volume, Boost, and woofer/Horn volumes present more obstacles than possibilities at this point, and if I can get by that, I can navigate my way to some happy place, I think. But so far, any "reasonable use" of these deafening sonic booby-traps has got me stymied and feckless. Any help will be recieved gratefully, thanks!
1001RB-II question here, concerning gain structure.
I have found that the 1001RB-II head is so loud it's got me sitting down, dumbfounded on how to get it together to get what I think I want out of it. The set up is this:
Epiphone Blackbird, modded w/volume pots>
1001RB-II>
Neutrik plug equipped cable, enabling Bi-Amp mode>
GK NEO212-II cab.
Gain structure has me willied. In such a situation, how do you set yours? Volume, Boost, and woofer/Horn volumes present more obstacles than possibilities at this point, and if I can get by that, I can navigate my way to some happy place, I think. But so far, any "reasonable use" of these deafening sonic booby-traps has got me stymied and feckless. Any help will be recieved gratefully, thanks!
Where's your Imperial sized set? Bumpers use a 3/16"!Yep, 5mm. Too big.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I have an EB and a 2015 Bird. They are very different animals in spite of being the same electronically. I like them both for different reasons.
Well they start off that way!I'm only a newbie hobbyist
So far!
(And Epi's are metric)
I've had several basses over the years that ended up accepting 3/16"
Oh and I'm no hobbyistI'm only a newbie hobbyist
So far!
(And Epi's are metric)
I'm a hack!
@mrb327, I noticed that most of the big e-commerce music sites are now out of the opal 7ender Jazz. Thus, it appears that the "special edition" was actually "special." I wouldn't be surprised to see them do other runs like this, with the matching headcap, whether in white or other colors.
Some pedals just eat batteries really fast. That seems like about the same amount of playing time I had on my old Digiverb pedal when I still used batteries for pedals.
On GKs I dime the gain and adjust the boost to taste. I always turn the horn all the way off, because I don't play their cabs and I don't even own a cab with tweeters (absolutely despise them in bass cabs). Any contour knobs or buttons off, as those seem to generally be mid-scooping tone sucks.
My drummer's GK (it was either a 400 or 800RB) I found a bit more user-friendly than my other friend's 1001RB. Honestly didn't sound that different from my Mesa D-180, despite being solid state rather than tube. If I was going to get a newer solid state amp, it would probably be a GK.
Opal?
Yes, they did a run of MIMs in a white color and termed it "opal". The headstock is painted in the same color and it has a white pearloid pickguard. I will stop writing about it now before the "7ender flame throwers" come out.
Ah, not a fan of pearloid pickguards, but it does sound nice looking.Yes, they did a run of MIMs in a white color and termed it "opal". The headstock is painted in the same color and it has a white pearloid pickguard. I will stop writing about it now before the "7ender flame throwers" come out.
