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Thunderbird Club

#24,242
ubernator said:
A series parallel switch is best of both worlds. On a Thunderbird it would probably need to be incorporated as a push pull pot due to real estate issues. I might do that to mine someday, but I don't have series mods on my jazz bass either, I can live without it. I like doing the blendy thing, so I would need the option of going back to parallel.
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That's how mine is wired. Push/pull pot on the volume knob for the bridge pickup. Tone knob replaced with a rotary pickup switch.
 
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Nocturnal said:
I just saw a Peavey 8X10 for a steal at a local store. I really wanted to grab it to go with my ugly SVT head. My wife would throw a fit tho as I really do not have room for it.....or a vehicle that could move it :(
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The good thing about a full sized van is that it's an incredibly cheap way to move a lot of everything. Nobody much wants 'em, so they are really inexpensive. The bad thing about having a van is the jokes about free candy. I always tell people who ask where the free candy sign is on my van that I have a "free champagne" sign. I go for a different demographic. Plus, it hauls an Acoustic 360, an upright, a 'Bird, a drum kit, a PA, a guitar amp, a guitar or two, and three band mates. I can put up with tired jokes for that.
 
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PillO said:
JAs an example, as a pre-teen, I understood that disco sucks (not just because Alice Cooper. Steve Dahl, and D.O.A. said so). But now, I go back to what survived, and it is good. Before I get myself lynched, ...
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I have been known to play all kinds of stuff, like Earth Wind and Fire, later James Brown, etc. You can do all that on a 'Bird, too. No lynching necessary. Actually, you would be just getting with the larger program. :thumbsup:
 
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Count Bassie said:
LMAO! Yeah...
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Funny (to me) story about what the big ol' Acoustic folded horn can do. I was playing a wedding with a band that I played upright in. Apparently I was more or less liquefying people in the back of the room, because their internal organs were vibrating. So, they moved closer and danced instead of hanging out and being wall flowers. I think a few people did puke that night, but it wasn't on account of me. I barely had the thing turned up at all, too. Those things are beasts. I had one for a while that was a 4x15 cabinet. Two were front firing, two faced each other and created a column of sound that beamed out the front of the cabinet. It wasn't quite as ferocious as the folded horn, but you could actually hear it pretty well on stage, which was good. It was a whole lot lighter than the 361 cabinet, because there was no power section in it. The magnets could probably lift a pickup truck, so it wasn't a lightweight. It was a bit bigger than any 810 cabinet I have ever seen. Size may not matter, but it sure is fun.
 
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kat888 said:
The weird thing about those MM basses is in all the years I don't recall ever seeing one in the flesh, let alone playing one. Ps, Js, various Gibsons, Rics, Yamaha, Aria, Ibanez, Steinberger etc - never a MM. They have always looked solid, like a proper 'axe'.
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there are three and a half basses you can find anywhere in Nashville: Bumper P's and J's, and EBMM Stingrays. The half is that the bigger stores will stock TBirds. Of those easy to find basses, you can have black, white, or burst.

What I find interesting is that once in a while a Bongo shows up. Usually used, but theyre not impossible to come by and I will have one, orange if possible.
 
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Gaolee said:
The good thing about a full sized van is that it's an incredibly cheap way to move a lot of everything. Nobody much wants 'em, so they are really inexpensive. The bad thing about having a van is the jokes about free candy. I always tell people who ask where the free candy sign is on my van that I have a "free champagne" sign. I go for a different demographic. Plus, it hauls an Acoustic 360, an upright, a 'Bird, a drum kit, a PA, a guitar amp, a guitar or two, and three band mates. I can put up with tired jokes for that.
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I have a minivan, which is fantastic for gear hauling (relatively low to the ground, not terrible mileage, spacious). So for me it's soccer mom jokes.

Haji said:
there are three and a half basses you can find anywhere in Nashville: Bumper P's and J's, and EBMM Stingrays. The half is that the bigger stores will stock TBirds. Of those easy to find basses, you can have black, white, or burst.

What I find interesting is that once in a while a Bongo shows up. Usually used, but theyre not impossible to come by and I will have one, orange if possible.
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My friend had an orange Bongo. Not sure if he still has it. Lives around Nashville these days.
 
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PillO said:
Joys of adulthood, I'm just getting to all this.

I'm with Klondike; most radio is repetitive schlock. There is a Toronto station (Q107) that has turned me off Led Zeppelin; I love Zep, but they would play a few songs endlessly. Q and Zep are off my list now. But there are a couple of things that I have grown to like. First is Little Steven's Underground Garage on Sirius. A great variety of music from many eras and genres. I have discovered some very interesting bands from that. Second, is Groove music (formerly Xbox music) the 'radio' function would choose music related to any chosen artist. I have discovered some great music through that that I'm not sure that I would have found any other way.

I now go back to my own historical eras and Sturgeons law applies. As an example, as a pre-teen, I understood that disco sucks (not just because Alice Cooper. Steve Dahl, and D.O.A. said so). But now, I go back to what survived, and it is good. Before I get myself lynched, keep in mind that bands like Kiss, Queen, and Pink Floyd adopted elements of disco to remain relevant/profitable. I remain enamoured with such diverse music as big band jazz, opera, heavy metal, psychedelic rock, and classic rock. Keep in mind that Mozart and Beethoven were the punk rock of their time...

And I will close with the Osmonds. Donny and Marie's lyric "I'm a little bit country, I'm a little bit rock and roll" was prescient of the development of "New Country".
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Ah Toronto, the home of Neil Young and TPOH. Disco doesn't necessarily suck - it depends...
 
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Count Bassie said:
Looks like I'll be swapping my GK Neo 212-II for a Peavey Pro 810. Gonna need to move more air, get a little more 'push' for the outdoor, dockside hotel reggae gig this summer. Apparently the Peavey is quite the beast.
Of couese I'll have to move it too.

All those years of therapy, down the drain.
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Here it is, going to get it Saturday. I should have said Physical therapy...

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The 80s. Some great bands in my neighborhood (Miami FL) then.

Scooped bass tones... I went to Berklee College in '85, just for a year, that's when I first saw all the Trace Elliot stuff. Some of the heavies at Berklee had TE, and I remember thinking they must have been real nice amps, but I could never really hear them! Everybody was doing the 'smiley face' eq curve- which scooped out so much of the sound that all you got was a plasticky-sounding 'bup-bup-bup', with a dash of stinging 'highs' along for the ride.

The last few years I've come to like the older Trace stuff quite a lot. Eq'd differently though!
 
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ubernator said:
A series parallel switch is best of both worlds. On a Thunderbird it would probably need to be incorporated as a push pull pot due to real estate issues. I might do that to mine someday, but I don't have series mods on my jazz bass either, I can live without it. I like doing the blendy thing, so I would need the option of going back to parallel.
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Plenty of room in the control cavity - The cavity is routed for 5 pots, so if you move the output jack to the side, fitting a switch or two should be no problem.
 
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ubernator said:
i got my olp when they first came out, I was impressed with the quality for the price, and body finish and matching headstock was really cool. The finish on the back of the neck is nothing like the real thing, and the fit and finish is decent, but not at the level of the real thing. The pickup was nothing special, I put a Warwick MEC pickup from an FNA and basic v/t CTS 250k pots, and that made it sound much better. I have plans for the basslines preamp, the small one with the concentric bass/treble pot attached to the chip. There is just enough room under the plate where the 3rd pot was, to tuck a 9v, no routing needed.

Quality wise it is very similar to my Korean goth, but they are different beasts entirely, the OLP with upgraded electronics is punchier than the bird, but birds don't sound like Rays anyway. The OLP has the same type of bridge that the SBMM sub has.
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See them once in a while 2nd hand locally, and think the look kinda nice with the matching headstock, and have been considering one in white/silver if the price is right.
 
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