Thunderbird Club

[Instagator]

Ha! I was actually looking to order a set of buttons for my '76. All other basses are good to go, but I changed straps for Thunderbird usage and forgot a set for the '76. I appreciate the offer, but it's not worth your time and postage.

Not a problem to send them if you have the interest. That would give you a set for the 76 and a set for your next two Thunderbirds.

I may not be a quick as Amazon.

 

[Engle]

Great looking place to play. Beautiful. Hopefully all the rocks won't be an issue for those who imbibe a fair amount!

As it turned out, while it was a beautiful setting, the night was a mess.
It was a 65th birthday party/jam in Gibsons(name of the town), for a producer friend of a friend. He's the guy that
produced the first RATM album. I brought out my Marshall and Ampeg Classic cabs.
The guy has a really nice studio and property. Unfortunately the power to that "stage" wasn't adequate. It kept cutting out mid song. I turned off the Marshall and tried running my MB200 (only). As soon as I hit the power button, it would blow the breaker. I ended up playing through a Rumble40. Don't think my MB200 was the issue, but at that point things were working.
And the mixer PA was barely functional, so no monitor on my side, lead vocals in only half the mains.

 

[Ringhammer]

As it turned out, while it was a beautiful setting, the night was a mess.
It was a 65th birthday party/jam in Gibsons(name of the town), for a producer friend of a friend. He's the guy that
produced the first RATM album. I brought out my Marshall and Ampeg Classic cabs.
The guy has a really nice studio and property. Unfortunately the power to that "stage" wasn't adequate. It kept cutting out mid song. I turned off the Marshall and tried running my MB200 (only). As soon as I hit the power button, it would blow the breaker. I ended up playing through a Rumble40. Don't think my MB200 was the issue, but at that point things were working.
And the mixer PA was barely functional, so no monitor on my side, lead vocals in only half the mains.

Gotta love the unpredictable nature of playing out.
I did two shows this weekend, and while all went well for myself, in both cases the guitar players had trouble.
Friday night, my lead guitar player (two guitars in this band) had a new amp he’s still learning about, and with a too short cord to get from the front of the stage back to the amp, he would go back to make an adjustment and unplug himself from his pedal board. He did this twice in a row.

Saturday night, different band, guitar player (the only one, this bands a 3 piece) kept sounding slightly out of tune even though his tuner showed everything right on. Caused a bunch of distraction for him and made for a less than good night on his part.

 

[JIO]

As it turned out, while it was a beautiful setting, the night was a mess.
It was a 65th birthday party/jam in Gibsons(name of the town), for a producer friend of a friend. He's the guy that
produced the first RATM album. I brought out my Marshall and Ampeg Classic cabs.
The guy has a really nice studio and property. Unfortunately the power to that "stage" wasn't adequate. It kept cutting out mid song. I turned off the Marshall and tried running my MB200 (only). As soon as I hit the power button, it would blow the breaker. I ended up playing through a Rumble40. Don't think my MB200 was the issue, but at that point things were working.
And the mixer PA was barely functional, so no monitor on my side, lead vocals in only half the mains.

oh well, gigs like that happen every now and then... next one will be much better in retrospect!

 

[JIO]

Gotta love the unpredictable nature of playing out.
I did two shows this weekend, and while all went well for myself, in both cases the guitar players had trouble.
Friday night, my lead guitar player (two guitars in this band) had a new amp he’s still learning about, and with a too short cord to get from the front of the stage back to the amp, he would go back to make an adjustment and unplug himself from his pedal board. He did this twice in a row.

Saturday night, different band, guitar player (the only one, this bands a 3 piece) kept sounding slightly out of tune even though his tuner showed everything right on. Caused a bunch of distraction for him and made for a less than good night on his part.

guitarists... luckily our guitarist Paul is the exception -

 

[dagrev]

Not a problem to send them if you have the interest. That would give you a set for the 76 and a set for your next two Thunderbirds.

I may not be a quick as Amazon.

Thank you. If no one else can use them, maybe I have a set of lightly used strings you may have interest in trying that I have.

 

[dagrev]

As it turned out, while it was a beautiful setting, the night was a mess.
It was a 65th birthday party/jam in Gibsons(name of the town), for a producer friend of a friend. He's the guy that
produced the first RATM album. I brought out my Marshall and Ampeg Classic cabs.
The guy has a really nice studio and property. Unfortunately the power to that "stage" wasn't adequate. It kept cutting out mid song. I turned off the Marshall and tried running my MB200 (only). As soon as I hit the power button, it would blow the breaker. I ended up playing through a Rumble40. Don't think my MB200 was the issue, but at that point things were working.
And the mixer PA was barely functional, so no monitor on my side, lead vocals in only half the mains.

Oh, boy. Doesn't sound like a good time at all. Hate to hear that.

 

[dagrev]

Gotta love the unpredictable nature of playing out.
I did two shows this weekend, and while all went well for myself, in both cases the guitar players had trouble.
Friday night, my lead guitar player (two guitars in this band) had a new amp he’s still learning about, and with a too short cord to get from the front of the stage back to the amp, he would go back to make an adjustment and unplug himself from his pedal board. He did this twice in a row.

Saturday night, different band, guitar player (the only one, this bands a 3 piece) kept sounding slightly out of tune even though his tuner showed everything right on. Caused a bunch of distraction for him and made for a less than good night on his part.

I've had a guitarist be or sound out of tune before. Distracting. If something doesn't sound right these days I have them use my PolyTune pedal to confirm. It's very accurate and has picked up on slightly off tuning before.

 

[GBassNorth]

Did a pickup difference and placement comparison between these. The Telebird has the neck pickup in '64 position and while it isn't that much closer to the neck than the P-bass pickup the difference in sound is quite noticeable and I think it would be even if it was in the exact P-position.
The clips are dirty and heavy handed just because I think those basses with those pickups selected sound great like that. And the riff was first that popped into my mind so there you go.
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Both Teles have only the neck pickup on.

All sounded great! My take on the samples…
The TeleBird sounded best to me, a little more hefty in the low mids than the others
The P bass was my second choice, very close to the TeleBird in sound but with less focus on the lower mids
The Telecaster was a bit to thin and more top end focused than the others, very much a single coil sound

 

[GBassNorth]

I've had a guitarist be or sound out of tune before. Distracting. If something doesn't sound right these days I have them use my PolyTune pedal to confirm. It's very accurate and has picked up on slightly off tuning before.

I mostly use a clip on Snark tuner these days, but I’ve noticed that something as simple as moving the clip on to a different part of the headstock can effect the tuning accuracy. And my Korg rack mount tuner is rarely exactly spot on with my clip ons.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Gotta love the unpredictable nature of playing out.
I did two shows this weekend, and while all went well for myself, in both cases the guitar players had trouble.
Friday night, my lead guitar player (two guitars in this band) had a new amp he’s still learning about, and with a too short cord to get from the front of the stage back to the amp, he would go back to make an adjustment and unplug himself from his pedal board. He did this twice in a row.

Saturday night, different band, guitar player (the only one, this bands a 3 piece) kept sounding slightly out of tune even though his tuner showed everything right on. Caused a bunch of distraction for him and made for a less than good night on his part.

haha, the ear makes a decent tuner as well…

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

luckily, all three weekend gigs were pretty glitchless for me….….

 

[PhR75]

Got my old 6-string Aria back for a long time loan. Sounded better than I remembered.

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[dagrev]

I mostly use a clip on Snark tuner these days, but I’ve noticed that something as simple as moving the clip on to a different part of the headstock can effect the tuning accuracy. And my Korg rack mount tuner is rarely exactly spot on with my clip ons.

If it only happens on old Thunderbirds we might say it's headstock repaid detecter!
That is interesting. I've not noticed it with my clip on (PolyTune as well), but worth looking into. I've got a small Korg and Hartke with needles and they seemed to require a little more work in tuning.

 

[PhR75]

All sounded great! My take on the samples…
The TeleBird sounded best to me, a little more hefty in the low mids than the others
The P bass was my second choice, very close to the TeleBird in sound but with less focus on the lower mids
The Telecaster was a bit to thin and more top end focused than the others, very much a single coil sound

Yeah, usually I would adjust the EQ and overdrive settings a bit. Now they were untouched between the takes. The Telecaster is indeed a very bright bass. With both pickups on it does the Chris Squire sound very well (whonused a two pickup Tele too at times).

 

[Engle]

oh well, gigs like that happen every now and then... next one will be much better in retrospect!

True enough - it was "come to this birthday party jam and check out the studio". The studio is awesome.
The jam part was a cluster5#(k!

 

[Ringhammer]

I've had a guitarist be or sound out of tune before. Distracting. If something doesn't sound right these days I have them use my PolyTune pedal to confirm. It's very accurate and has picked up on slightly off tuning before.

He has a polytune. It showed everything as in. I suspect it may have been a slight intonation problem and with new strings, and maybe (?) humidity. It wasn’t obscene, but it was sometimes noticeable. The guitar player from my other band was there and he commented that it seemed to come up around 7th to 10th frets.

I mean, it’s a (I think early) ‘70’s LP, so you wouldn’t think it a problem..

 

[GBassNorth]

True enough - it was "come to this birthday party jam and check out the studio". The studio is awesome.
The jam part was a cluster5#(k!

You’d think with a studio (I assume that’s the building behind the stage) they’d have a nice robust clean power supply you could have connected to.

 

[Engle]

You’d think with a studio (I assume that’s the building behind the stage) they’d have a nice robust clean power supply you could have connected to.

The stage is a deck in front of a "Tiny House" which is about 100ft from the main building with the studio. I expected that Tiny house to at least have a couple of 15A circuits available.

 

[JJR58]

Got my old 6-string Aria back for a long time loan. Sounded better than I remembered.
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Your IG clip is awesome!