Thunderbird Club

[dagrev]

Jazz base Tuesday….

OK.

 

[PhR75]

Is it tuesday? I thought it was Saturday. I should be sleeping by now...

I revisited an old album because a friend of mine played the vinyl in his system today. I had forgotten I played the Bicentennial in this song. Hiwatt DR103 through EBS CL212 mic'ed.
The '76 sounds so different compared to the ones with the "normal style" T-bird pickups. It's more a single coil type of a sound, at least to me.

 

[Nocturnal]

What differences are there between the Epiphone T-Bird IV and these harnesses? Are the Gibson ones better? Please I need an objective answer.

The obvious difference is where the jack is located. Gibson puts it on the side, Epiphone puts it on the front. As far as quality, as long as it works, the quality of the pots isn't all that relevant. Some may find Gibson pots have finer adjustments or hold up better. The cap value seems a lot more important to me than whether it is this or that cap. So really, as a functional matter for most of us, it is only jack location.

I think @Gaolee summed it up nicely.

thanks for being such an excellent resource Andy.

Glad you posted this. Remember seeing some that looked good but couldn't think of the name or seller, but this is the person.

Always happy to help with information and enablement.

 

[GBassNorth]

Jazz base Tuesday….

I can do that…

 

[BklynKen]

Here's my old Jazz I never bonded with.

 

[GonePlaid]

Is it tuesday? I thought it was Saturday. I should be sleeping by now...

I revisited an old album because a friend of mine played the vinyl in his system today. I had forgotten I played the Bicentennial in this song. Hiwatt DR103 through EBS CL212 mic'ed.
The '76 sounds so different compared to the ones with the "normal style" T-bird pickups. It's more a single coil type of a sound, at least to me.

 

[GBassNorth]

A few weeks ago I traded that Jazz bass in my previous pic for this…

…so glad I did! The Jazz was nice but I just hadn’t played it in years, more focused on humbuckers these days. The shell pink glitter five string fan fret Non Reverse thunderbird with nordy sidewinders sounds and plays fantastic. For those of you that might be fanfret curious, it took nearly zero time to get used to the frets.

 

[Bassmike62]

Just got this wicked beast a few days ago.
A Levinson Blade J.

Highly underrated bass.
And for the money, it’s a whole lotta bass.
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That is one great looking bass !

 

[Thumper]

A few weeks ago I traded that Jazz bass in my previous pic for this…
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…so glad I did! The Jazz was nice but I just hadn’t played it in years, more focused on humbuckers these days. The shell pink glitter five string fan fret Non Reverse thunderbird with nordy sidewinders sounds and plays fantastic. For those of you that might be fanfret curious, it took nearly zero time to get used to the frets.

That's beautiful, and fanned frets are great, especially for 5ers. What scale is that?

 

[GBassNorth]

That's beautiful, and fanned frets are great, especially for 5ers. What scale is that?

Multi scale - IIRC it’s 37” on the low B and 34” on the G.

 

[Stealth57]

First, do both heads have three prong ground plugs on them? If they do set the ground switch to the way of least hum or you could get a nasty shock but otherwise that looks OK to me. If you can't hear a difference with a bass plugged into the head when you switch the ground switch, turn the volume all the way down and unplug your bass, gradually turn up the volume so you can hear hum then set it, you'll definitely hear the difference then. MM set to 8 ohms with that 8 ohm cab, but you already knew that.

Switch makes no difference. I’ll take the MM to Chucky’s maybe in January if he’s around. There are some things I want him to look at anyway. I hear he has a pair of 1000w magic tubes

 

[KaraQ]

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The EMG RipTides, wired passive, VVT.
....

I put Rip Tides (chrome) in my '89 Ibanez (black 5-string on left):

Wired with EMG's BTS system - really love that setup

....... Anyway my luthier recommended to go with Puretone jacks instead of Switchcraft. I had not heard of them before.
Going with Lollars for the pickups.

I've been using puretone jacks (panel & barrel) lately, good quality, I like them so far

 

[KaraQ]

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....it might be getting a "new" addition tomorrow.....



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Yes, I'm well aware of that.

Have my attention. Waiting.... waiting.... waiting.....

Whatever could it be?!

 

[Stealth57]

OK.
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Looks like a Walker & Williams C19 strap. Have one on my Dano. Comfortable

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Here's my old Jazz I never bonded with.

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yeah, thought I was gonna dig this one more….

 

[JIO]

Jazz bass... dot & bound early '66

Bond Girl bass...

 

[Thumper]

I also have an early dot and bound '66J, still haven’t bonded with it after 38 years.

 

[PhR75]

I also have an early dot and bound '66J, still haven’t bonded with it after 38 years.
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Is that JPJ (uprow, 2nd from right) inspired by Max Webster's Mike Tilka?

 

[GBassNorth]

Switch makes no difference. I’ll take the MM to Chucky’s maybe in January if he’s around. There are some things I want him to look at anyway. I hear he has a pair of 1000w magic tubes

FWIW - I’ve never noticed any difference in sound or output when I flip the ground switch on the back of my MM amp from one position to the other. I was told (possible bad info) that the ground switch was used to cancel 60cycle hum or interference if you encountered any. Something about inverting the signal or some other strange concept. Never noticed any noise regardless of the switch position.

 

[KaraQ]

Whatever could it be?!

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The before pic, from a couple of days ago .....

The now pic, from now days ago....