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Thunderbird Club

#280,248
WillyW said:
Expanderated base peddle bored Sunday!

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I use an EHX Bassballs on my board. Combine that with a Mooer Tender and you can get a pretty decent facsimile of a Fender Rhodes out of an amplified upright bass. It doesn't work as well with a Thunderbird. Not playing the upright so much means the octaver has been replaced by a Mooer Bass Fog. It's not the greatest fuzz pedal, but it works to make the amp sound like it's about to blow up in a spectacular and entertainingly musical way. That's the whole point of a fuzz anyway. The point of the Mooer pedals is that they actually both fit in the space of one pedal on my limited size board. The wireless receiver/tuner takes up a fair amount of space. The Broughton filter and DI box are permanent fixtures on the board. That leaves room for one normal sized pedal and one nano sized pedal. It's tight enough that I don't even fasten the one or two pedals down. They get swapped off and on depending, anyway, and don't even get engaged much. I probably don't need them on the board at all, which would make it nothing but utilities.
 
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#280,249
WillyW said:
I'm having trouble keeping this in tune, do you think I need a new nut? I already replaced the tunas...

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Engle said:
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I managed to put the Casady pickup in a Tbird cover.
Made a bracket with the printer and embedded 4-40 nuts in the towers.

It needed 2” long 4/40 screws and they just came in.
I might do the fake screws on the ring and double sided tape it
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That looks far better than stock. Does the cover make any difference?
 
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WillyW said:
I'm having trouble keeping this in tune, do you think I need a new nut? I already replaced the tunas...

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You probably need to drill a few random holes to offset the effect of the unused holes on that headstock. Then break the headstock a couple times and glue it back together with rubber cement. That isolates it from the nut. Works great.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
They were bored at home and so was everyone else. They were trying to make music and entertain. She's a bit of an exhibisionist. OK, everyone has their own thing. I had no problem with it. My lack of respect tank was emptied by the people killing gullible people with bad "medical advice". (Everyone will just have to interpret that as they will. I'm stopping there there so as not to get the thread shut down for political discussion.)
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I assume you are talking about Robert Fripp?
 
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