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Thunderbird Club

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Chucky Stiletti said:
exactly 10 years ago, off 34th, the Red Door was a regular….so many cool bars and restaurants…
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I think of 10 years ago as practically yesterday. There are still lots of great bars, restaurants, music venues, and all that. It has gotten a little more self-conscious about its weirdness over the years. Fremont in 1990 was a pretty free wheeling place. It hadn't quite been discovered by lawyers, accountants, and frat boys and girls. It is still a great place, just different. It was the East Village. Now it is the West Village.
 
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Stealth57 said:
I did a sound test on the Probuckers vs SD Custom Shop. First note, though more details below, is the neck SD is really hot. In practice, it wants to have a lower setting on the bass volume and make the adjustment at the amp. I'd love your thoughts.



This is a demonstration of two different sets of pickups in a 2017 Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage Pro. The stock pickups are Probucker 760 and the replacement pickups are Seymour Duncan Custom Shop. All settings were the same and using stainless round wound strings. Recordings were done as a direct input into an audio interface and Waveform 11.

The DC resistance for the Probuckers is 8.4Kohms (neck)/9.4Kohms (bridge).

The DC resistance for the SDs is 7.98Kohms (neck)/9.75Kohms (bridge).

The output for the SD neck pickup appears much hotter than the Probuckers even with slightly lower resistance. Since all recordings were done with volume at 10, the SD neck pickup would do better with a lower volume setting on the bass and an increase in volume at the amp.
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That is very interesting. I like the Probuckers better in the demo, but mostly because the SDs were overloading the circuit. They sounded better higher up where that wasn't an issue. By comparison, the Probuckers sounded almost single coil like.
 
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Gaolee said:
That is very interesting. I like the Probuckers better in the demo, but mostly because the SDs were overloading the circuit. They sounded better higher up where that wasn't an issue. By comparison, the Probuckers sounded almost single coil like.
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I wanted a heads up comparison where everything was identical. But, a fairer comparison would require me to crank down the neck pickup or use a different volume setting.

If I had a mic, I'd put it on one of my cabinets, which is more realistic.
 
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Stealth57 said:
I did a sound test on the Probuckers vs SD Custom Shop. First note, though more details below, is the neck SD is really hot. In practice, it wants to have a lower setting on the bass volume and make the adjustment at the amp. I'd love your thoughts.



This is a demonstration of two different sets of pickups in a 2017 Epiphone Thunderbird Vintage Pro. The stock pickups are Probucker 760 and the replacement pickups are Seymour Duncan Custom Shop. All settings were the same and using stainless round wound strings. Recordings were done as a direct input into an audio interface and Waveform 11.

The DC resistance for the Probuckers is 8.4Kohms (neck)/9.4Kohms (bridge).

The DC resistance for the SDs is 7.98Kohms (neck)/9.75Kohms (bridge).

The output for the SD neck pickup appears much hotter than the Probuckers even with slightly lower resistance. Since all recordings were done with volume at 10, the SD neck pickup would do better with a lower volume setting on the bass and an increase in volume at the amp.
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On a Bose speaker both sound great, and not much different other than the SD seems hot, as mentioned. I can't say one is better than the other. I enjoyed listening to both.
 
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