Yes I've thought of doing the same idea to lighten a bass- a cavity with a cover on the back. That makes sense!
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Thunderbird Club
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I did that, but out of necessity.
Very nice dark fretboard.
I wonder if these are actually the Gibson guts in the Epi pickup covers like they claim:
Thunderbird Bass for Original Epiphone,With Gibson Thunderbi
$65 for TB+? That price smells like Chinese copies.
might be worth the 65 smackers to find out
Yes, I believe they are. Same as Chinabuckers in Epi covers?
The chrome/nickel Chinabuckers are vintage-y A5. Maybe what they mean is these retrofit Epi style pups are TB+ clones under those covers…?
Yes, I think that is what they are saying. The ceramic magnet version, not the Chinabuckers with chrome covers. I made the wrong comparison in my previous post.
I suspect this is exactly what they are - either EY Tbird pickups (metal can ChinaBuckers) in Eppi covers or more likely, the exposed pole EY Tbird pickup inside an Eppi cover. In either case, EY pickups are not bad pickups at all for the price.
For the record, I did pull the center ChinaBucker pickup out of the BlingBird and temporarily replaced it with an Eppi VP pickup. And although there was a difference between the two pickups, they’re pretty close in sound and volume. The ChinaBucker had a bit more top end and maybe an hair less bottom end as the VP and a little less detail in the notes. For the price, the EY ChinaBuckers aren’t a bad pickup at all.
Probably comes from the same factory, with the same guts, just a different box. It has been happening that way since the birth of the pedal industry.Joyo pedals... something I wanna try.
I have this Waldman El Maestro, is pretty much the same pedal, sold in Brazil; a copy, rebrand.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
They behave oddly as well. The get more scooped the closer they are to the strings.
A little shot of injector cleaner and they'll be good as new.
*This is not advice, serious or otherwise, and should never be followed. Just like a fair amount of my advice.
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For the record, I did use the '06 with LaBella nylons yesterday. Sounded great! It was a long road to get to great, but once there the destination is very satisfying. And as a bonus, the bass is a dream to play.
Buy 'em, try 'em, report on 'em.
- I bought a VP and compared the Probuckers to my mahogany body P with roasted maple neck and Chinabuckers. Curious about your take. Mine is difficult because of bolt on vs neck through.
Overall, maybe more lows/low mids on Chinabuckers, slightly more mids/upper mids and slightly more growl on ProBuckers.
The notes seem to jump off the VP, and it is more sensitive/responsive to plucking location, much like P's I've played. The ThunderP is less sensitive to plucking location, which is good because I like to anchor on the neck PUP, and Chinabuckers provide a very vintagey fundamental very well suited to 50s to 70s Classic Rock. The VP really covers 80s and up (think Cult, etc.) Both can do it all though. The VP still retains a little hair in the lows, the Chinabucker can get a little creamier.
This is with about an hour of comparison, and playing Gimme Three Step, Little Devil, and Come Together. All that said, I won't be changing the PUPs in either bass. I traded ProBuckers to another TBer, and am waiting for his input (he has 2 VPs, putting Chinabuckers in 1 of them).
