Thunderbird Club

[MCF]

Plug a normal output bass into a 70's SVT and it's pretty much at full clear volume at about 10 o'clock, that's the point at which they start to get a little dirty. Every 70's SVT head I've ever owned was like that, it's not my term I picked it up from Ampeg somewhere along the line. They haven't made them like that since the 70's.

Best I can tell, the SVT VR stays clean until about noon. But I haven’t had occasion to really let it rip.

 

[dagrev]

While I would like another Peavey Mk III, I don't miss the weight. Used the Ashdown tonight at practice with the '64 Pbass with Pyramid flats. Sounded fantastic. This is a great little amp. My Ampeg inherently has more lows, but the Ashdown will get there. Fat, full and punchy. I can even throw it in my back back with other things and away I go.

 

[dagrev]

Best I can tell, the SVT VR stays clean until about noon. But I haven’t had occasion to really let it rip.

You do have wildlife to consider.

 

[MCF]

purely an intentional scaling thing….gain is gain and remains the same….like amps that go to 11….if you plug a low output Eko bass for example, that “break up” will probably happen past the 10 o’clock mark…
so as not to derail, PM works well…

But a lot of us are learning some things. So I for one don’t mind the open discussion.

 

[JJR58]

Best I can tell, the SVT VR stays clean until about noon. But I haven’t had occasion to really let it rip.

Clean at noon?
I like!

 

[JJR58]

You do have wildlife to consider.

Yeah, his family.

 

[MCF]

I'm a rockah!

Just because.

 

[MCF]

I had to skip to my Lou ... I mean, some pages. If I failed to answer anything, let me know. or mock me. Whatever works. I'ma go eat, watch Catching Fire, and play Thunderbirds.

Wimp. I’ve been methodically working through.

 

[MCF]

My favorite movie!

 

[MCF]

Not too dirty?

The gain depends on the bass. But I like dirt from the amp. One thing about the Mesa is you can run it at two Ohms and get earlier breakup. Especially through the Boogie channel. I’ve had it two years now and am still learning new tricks to get different tone.

 

[MCF]

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"Mr Bass player... could you please just stand alittle further back.....alittle further please.... alittle further please.. keep going...your almost there....ok perfect...alright everyone, say cheese."

I would have told him to F*** Off.

 

[Stealth57]

of course, gotta hit the music stores….

old MM…
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one of the few Gibsons….
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Artek amps?….
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made in China J with buckers?…
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closest thing to a T-Bird…
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What were they asking for that nasty Sixty Five if it was a Sixty Five?

 

[MCF]

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Went into the studio Monday, got four more songs done. All in one day. Great working with players that have their parts down and can work efficiently. And high praise for the Engineer, partial producer and owner, Bart Thurber, House of Faith, in Oakland. Excellent guy to work with, and always has great suggestions to add bits here and there on vocal parts, and other little extra guitar parts, and so on. I worked with him 30 (!) years ago when he was in Palo Alto and he just knows how to make you sound exactly the way your music should. These are the second group of four we did with him and I’m really looking forward to hearing these new ones. The first four we did back in October, are all up on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music and Amazon. Just search “Red Sun Ruins”
It’s also an interesting space with some real vintage stuff all around, such as the vintage Leslie Cab. Maybe next time we will have a song that can utilize it!

Subscribed on Spotify. Good stuff. Great playing!

 

[MCF]

Here on the west coast - we're having a real winter for a change. Lot's of snow up north, major flooding down south.., CA does everything big.

And lots of snow in the SoCal mountains. Too much in fact.

 

[Nocturnal]

Is that Grace? Are you in Monaco? If so, really envious here. It’s only been 40 years though. But still.

Looks like Evita to me.

We went to Monaco 4 years ago. It was a nice place to visit and was extremely clean.

 

[Stealth57]

Well, I'm pretty sure a Mark III through a pair of 15s would be enough for all of my neighbors, and probably all of their neighbors, to hear easily, but I have this for backup......just in case


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And, just in case in case, there's always this running off my pf350.....

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Pretty sure all the neighbors will be equally annoyed

Hear or feel?

 

[bobyoung53]

Best I can tell, the SVT VR stays clean until about noon. But I haven’t had occasion to really let it rip.

Every post 70's SVT I've tried (which hasn't been a lot) has been like that. I had a Skunkworks head some years ago that also did that. I'm so used to the older ones it doesn't feel right to me.

 

[MCF]

Thanks! Those were done late last year. The next stuff that we just recorded Monday will hopefully be up in about a month. The new recordings have a couple of songs where I do a bit more interesting stuff during a couple of parts, but mostly the bass stuff is just fun heavy rock, really fun stuff to play, and I like doing it. Not necessarily on par with stuff I’ve heard from many of you, but the stuff this band does is right where I’m at and some of our new stuff we’re working on has room for me to get creative. My other band, Bad Lemon, is more straight ahead rock, with really standard, what you would expect, basslines, but a few gems that have some creative stuff too, and more coming from there too.

Just subscribed to Bad Lemon too. Nice. And your playing is great!

 

[bobyoung53]

Just because.

I'm surprised he had the key that high, sounds like everyone's struggling to hit the highs or maybe they were burnt out from touring which is probably more likely.

 

[MCF]

Sold is sold.

If you paid the agreed upon price in full and asked him to hold it for you he legally had no right to sell that guitar to someone else. He would have the right to charge you a holding fee, but not sell an already sold and paid for guitar to a higher or any other bidder.

Now it’s a different story if you hadn’t paid for it yet, or only put a deposit down. In which case the seller should have informed you he had another buyer and given you the option to complete the sale or pass on the purchase.

Compare that with the BaCH bass I sold to Marshall. Last fall I contacted him to see if he was interested in buying it, he responded with “consider it sold”. So I did. I didn’t want payment until he received the bass and confirmed he still wanted it. It took the two of us several months to schedule a time we could both meet for the hands on exchange of the money for the bass. During that period at least one other BaCH came up on the block (maybe even slightly cheaper than mine) and Marshall never wavered from his verbal commitment (even though he had every right to do so if he wanted to). I had at least two other people call me and offer more money than I was asking, I informed them the sale was committed but if it fell through I’d contact them.

Turned out Marshall is a stand up guy and true to his word. We met a few weeks ago and made the exchange. He could have very easily bailed on me for a different deal on another BaCH or bird, but he didn’t. Because he was such a stand up guy and didn’t leave me hanging I threw in a nice guitar stand for free as a bonus.

I generally detest listing gear for sale because of the high chance of ending up dealing with a GenPop flake. I will gladly take less money on a sale with someone I know and trust vs potentially dealing with lookyloos or tire kickers or flippers or scammers.

And I am really happy with the BaCH. I can’t get over how nice the neck on it is. And I’m appreciating the different tone of the Artec pickup. Thank you again George!