Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

Put out a new single with my band over the weekend. Not a Thunderbird, but the Grecobacker with Lollar T-bird pickup in the neck.

Pretty cool!

 

[PillO]

New amp arrived today.
And I’m so freakin happy with it.
Epifani UL902C.

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Turn it up! I can't hear it.

 

[PillO]

I think Jeff's neighbors are going to hear Jeff play the bass................ For several days

Even after he stops

Would someone PLEASE turn off that alarm!!

 

[BklynKen]

Put out a new single with my band over the weekend. Not a Thunderbird, but the Grecobacker with Lollar T-bird pickup in the neck.

Sounds great, Dylan. And thanks for giving multiple listening options!

 

[PillO]

Don't limit our Willy.

Ahem.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Right. Who needs 3 syllables when two'll do?

southerners...

 

[PillO]

Is it my imagination or does it have a bit of a Kansas feel?

Yes, I get that vibe too.

 

[Engle]

From the Fender P-bass thread - just what you'd expect, T-bird is darker sounding.

But the Tbird has two pickups. Were they both on 10?

 

[TBird1958]

Thanks! Now I’m really thinking about it. I was able to sell 4 of the 5 basses I put out there and another will be on the block after I take some photos this weekend. G3 reissue or NR reissue? Or wait because I may be on furlough in a month? Decisions. . .

The G3 RI had some really nice tones as you varied the pickup selection, especially nice played fingerstyle.
Much as I might enjoy the enabling though, no reckless spending if there's downtime in the future.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The G3 RI had some really nice tones as you varied the pickup selection, especially nice played fingerstyle.
Much as I might enjoy the enabling though, no reckless spending if there's downtime in the future.

always dug that body style, original and neutral....congrats.

 

[Roger W]

You know you are in the south when two-syllable words are shortened to one syllable, and one-syllable words get augmented to two or more syllables. That's how it works in North Wilkesboro, NC, or did when I was a kid growing up and visiting there. And elsewhere in NC. If you are from NYC, the "W" comes in front of the vowel, and in the south, it comes after the vowel. That's another way to tell.

I was on a plane from Houston or Dallas, I don't remember which, and a young Egyptian woman sat in the seat next to me. We had a whole lot of fun talking to each other on that flight, including a discussion of dialects. I gave her a good dose of NC hill twang, and her eyes got really big. Yep, that's English, kinda. That was a very short seeming flight back to Seattle. She was very cute, and I'm shallow, so that didn't hurt.

Japan has distinct regional accents too. In the Kanto Plain, the area around Tokyo and Yokohama, they tend to slide over the ‘u’ in words that contain the su syllable. So the city we lived in, Yokosuka, was pronounced Yokos’ka by people in from that area. People from other areas think it’s very rude.

 

[TBird1958]

From the Fender P-bass thread - just what you'd expect, T-bird is darker sounding.

I get it - But, if I really needed a bass to sound like a P Bass, I'd just buy a P Bass. In my case a single pickup Bird (Lul Gibson or Greco) covers it just fine.

 

[GBassNorth]

But the Tbird has two pickups. Were they both on 10?

As interesting as I thought the video was, I was left wondering the same thing.

Unfortunately they never truly made any obvious attempt to answer the title of the clip “Can a Tbird sound like a Precision”.

To answer that question they should have recorded the precision in three different on board EQ’s (Tone full off, tone half up, tone full up) then they should have messed around with the Tbird on-board EQ and pickup blending to see if they could replicate each of the three P bass recordings.

Comparing a Tbird with the tone all the way up to a P bass with the tone all the way up tells me absolutely nothing other than this one can get brighter than that one. Pretty useless info as far as answering the question at hand. Basically 3rd grade science fair stuff.

 

[JIO]

But the Tbird has two pickups. Were they both on 10?

As interesting as I thought the video was, I was left wondering the same thing.

Unfortunately they never truly made any obvious attempt to answer the title of the clip “Can a Tbird sound like a Precision”.

To answer that question they should have recorded the precision in three different on board EQ’s (Tone full off, tone half up, tone full up) then they should have messed around with the Tbird on-board EQ and pickup blending to see if they could replicate each of the three P bass recordings.

Comparing a Tbird with the tone all the way up to a P bass with the tone all the way up tells me absolutely nothing other than this one can get brighter than that one. Pretty useless info as far as answering the question at hand. Basically 3rd grade science fair stuff.

Not definitive for sure, but I'll assume he had the bridge pu turned off of the T-bird as it seems obvious to do so as a comparison. I would have posted a different title also, like T-bird vs P-bass tone challenge. I agree w/Mark - why would anyone want their bass to sound like another bass?

 

[Engle]

Not definitive for sure, but I'll assume he had the bridge pu turned off of the T-bird as it seems obvious to do so as a comparison. I would have posted a different title also, like T-bird vs P-bass tone challenge. I agree w/Mark - why would anyone want their bass to sound like another bass?

"Hi guys, in today's video I propose a comparison between two legendary basses: the Precision and the Thunderbird! How close can the Thunderbird sound to the Precision? The answer is yours!"

If you don't play with the balance between the pickups, you'll never know!

 

[JJR58]

Turn it up! I can't hear it.

Will do!

 

[MCF]

Is it my imagination or does it have a bit of a Kansas feel?

It’s the keys on this track that makes it have a Kansas, Greenslade, etc., vibe. Dylan’s band is great. I listen to them on Spotify quite a bit. I really need to get out to a show.

 

[Ringhammer]

Not definitive for sure, but I'll assume he had the bridge pu turned off of the T-bird as it seems obvious to do so as a comparison. I would have posted a different title also, like T-bird vs P-bass tone challenge. I agree w/Mark - why would anyone want their bass to sound like another bass?

I like the sound of a Jazz bass. I have some Jazz basses for that.

I like the sound of a P-bass. I have some P-basses for that.

I like the sound of a Thunderbird bass. I have some Thunderbird basses for that.

…and so on.

Oh, ALSO, I like all the different sounds all my different basses can make yet still be close to the “classic” sound of the type of bass that it is, whether P, or J, or T, or fretless, or short scale, etc.

 

[GBassNorth]

Not definitive for sure, but I'll assume he had the bridge pu turned off of the T-bird as it seems obvious to do so as a comparison. I would have posted a different title also, like T-bird vs P-bass tone challenge. I agree w/Mark - why would anyone want their bass to sound like another bass?

I have P basses and Tbirds and I’ll be the first to say that some of my Tbirds do in fact pull off a very accurate copy of my P bass sound. I also have many more that don’t. The useful bit of information in that for me is that I know I can mothball or off my P basses (which I don’t get along with as well from an ergonomics standpoint) because I have that sound covered with some of my better fitting Tbirds. So yes, under some circumstances (like mine) it’s very useful to know if I can duplicate the sound of one with the other, that gives me the info needed to sell off or mothball redundant sounding basses if desired, which I have done.

 

[MCF]

Thanks! Now I’m really thinking about it. I was able to sell 4 of the 5 basses I put out there and another will be on the block after I take some photos this weekend. G3 reissue or NR reissue? Or wait because I may be on furlough in a month? Decisions. . .

When a fairly rare bass like a G3 comes up, and you want it, my philosophy is buy it now if you can afford it. While there were only 800 ‘13 NR reissues produced, plenty of the ‘21 NR reissues have been produced and they’re still in production. You should have no problem finding one of the new NR reissues later.