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Thunderbird Club
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While I understand instrument electronics…
I have not ventured into pedal, and especially amplification electronics…
I learned some new stuff today… whether I liked it or not!
Boss guru’s.. dim LED when pedal is on..
I have not ventured into pedal, and especially amplification electronics…
I learned some new stuff today… whether I liked it or not!
Boss guru’s.. dim LED when pedal is on..
Hey y'all, y'all seem to be a pretty cool bunch that's appreciative of cool things.
You see that B-15 in my avatar? Would any of y'all be interested in giving it a good home where it would get regular use? I found it needing some work and got it to and going with a couple caps an output transformer and some tubes. I also replaced the original speaker because it had the slightest crack forming in the cone and I figured I was better off not needing it up. I used the fliptops/Jess Oliver recommended speaker. It does still need a tube cage and the plexiglass logo. The speaker is also wired with a 1/4" plug instead of the 4 pin jack. I'd also recommend getting the plug changed over to a modern 3 prong cord.
My issue is that I've profiled it with my Kemper and I use that for dang near everything I do. All my playing at home is done on headphones so the B15 pretty much just lives its life sitting there collecting dust but I'd like to know it was getting played like it should. I don't really wanna get rid of it, but i hate that such a cool piece doesn't get to do its thing.
You see that B-15 in my avatar? Would any of y'all be interested in giving it a good home where it would get regular use? I found it needing some work and got it to and going with a couple caps an output transformer and some tubes. I also replaced the original speaker because it had the slightest crack forming in the cone and I figured I was better off not needing it up. I used the fliptops/Jess Oliver recommended speaker. It does still need a tube cage and the plexiglass logo. The speaker is also wired with a 1/4" plug instead of the 4 pin jack. I'd also recommend getting the plug changed over to a modern 3 prong cord.
My issue is that I've profiled it with my Kemper and I use that for dang near everything I do. All my playing at home is done on headphones so the B15 pretty much just lives its life sitting there collecting dust but I'd like to know it was getting played like it should. I don't really wanna get rid of it, but i hate that such a cool piece doesn't get to do its thing.
Eyes forward… you don’t need a project… no matter how friggin cool it would be….. keep walking… nothing to see here…
although that blue 67 NR is in San Antonio which is a 10 hour drive, then another 2 3/4 hour drive to Houston….
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There's not really anything project about it. Couple little details that would make it prettier, but it's fully rocking and rolling. I can go turn it around and play it right now (But those tubes will create extra heat and my AC compressor took a dump tonight and it's 86°F in my house right now with anticipated temps of 110 tomorrow. Yay!) and it'll sound great. That's how I was able to make my profiles of it.
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The gray-haired dude in the guitar print shirt is Dave, owner of the shop we took over today. Super cool, very knowledgeable, a good bassist & guitar player, and not a bad drummer. The young woman at the desk is Rebecca, self-described as “one of Dave’s minions” - a brilliant guitarist (we’ll get to hear her play with @Chucky Stiletti ’s band tomorrow). Seriously cool people, seriously cool basses, and some seriously cool amps in More Music. Y’all really need to try to make one of these GTGs!
The basses @JIO and @GBassNorth make sound even better than they look.
Firsts for me: playing a B-15 flip top, playing an Ampeg folded horn cab and a Sunn Coliseum 300, playing a ‘65 NR II, playing a Bicentennial bird, playing a 2015 bird (@Stealth57 ’s, I believe), playing a fretless (an early Alembic prototype at the shop), playing @MCF ’s short scale Silverburst and Epi LE, and of course playing all the basses the builders mentioned brought. A friend of Chuck and shop owner Dave, named Eric, showed up with a few basses, including a Bicentennial & the 65 NR.
I also played all the other basses people brought, despite having played them or their siblings in the past.
At one point, shop owner Dave played drums, and for ~10 minutes we had a bass jam with at least 5 basses playing through amps. It was phenomenal.
As it is very humid here I had to adjust the string height a bit. The neck is pretty straight so I didn't touch the trussrod but slightly raised the bridge. 10 sec job.
I don't really get the change-the-bridge-to-fully-adjustable on those Epiphone Embassy and Newport threads. How much individual adjustment one needs actually? The intonation to each string of course but I find the height adjustement for the whole "package" much easier and faster.
Hey, you left out the part about you being a chick magnet at dinner!
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Enjoying a Manhattan on a wonderful evening in California, celebrating the best of friends!
I ‘l’ll have lots more to post after we return to Seattle, for today the fun continues as we get ready to go see Chucky and his band mates here in Hollister followed by more bass playing and pictures at his place.
I ‘l’ll have lots more to post after we return to Seattle, for today the fun continues as we get ready to go see Chucky and his band mates here in Hollister followed by more bass playing and pictures at his place.
I was rooting around in a closet and found an old digitech RP500 that I’m pretty sure I bought around 2006-2010 when I was still messing around on guitar. If anyone is interested, PM me. I promise to dust it.
Too bad I can only hit the "Like" button once. Cheers!
Some strings need more intonation room than the stock bridge gives, and bridge radius doesn’t always match fretboard radius. Some people prefer the look or not to chance saddle loss if a string breaks. Lots of reasons. If you like it, great!
Not me. She was talking to us but looking across from us at someone.
Of course but in these the radius matches pretty well with the fingerboard (at least with "normal" strings) and I would think it matches on Embassy and Newport too.
