Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

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 Not playing the upright so much means the octaver has been replaced by a Mooer Bass Fog.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.

When I bought my board, I thought it was overkill, and it was at the time. But now I'm glad I got the size I did. Everything on my board gets used now. (The Tumnus OD is usually on with any of my Thunderbirds, and the Polychrome flanger gets used more than the Phase 95 did.)

 

[dagrev]

any Frippsters out there?….
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Didn't know he was doing any touring.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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.

The rubber cement keeps it flexible to prevent unwanted breakage.

 

[JIO]

He can be odd. But Heroes would probably not have turned out to be the great song it is without his contribution.

Oh, I really like his past work with King Crimson and Bowie.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I had respect for him until his Covid era vids with his wife. Not so much anymore frankly.

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox 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.)

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I assume you are talking about Robert Fripp?

Yes. Ugh. Deleted that post and redid it with the correct quote. Thanks.

 

[dagrev]

NPR Tiny Desk 2024 entry - just under the wire! (submissions till 11:59 EST today) Wish us luck!

Very nice!

 

[JIO]

WW…..
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My favorite years for a T-bird and that creamy white is very classy. In fantasy-land I'd have two - that one and this one...

 

[Ringhammer]

Good googly moogly.... Anybody in here use a Cali76? I picked up Stacked version (it has two 1176 compressors in series) yesterday and it is a dang game changer.

I have the Cali76 “compact bass” pedal. I like it but I find the controls a little trickier. Just a note, on my “compact bass” model, ratio at full CCW is equal to 4:1. Someone somewhere in TB land filled me in on that, the manual said nothing about it and I’d assume full CCW on ratio would mean 1:1.

I have a couple others I like better. Keely “Compressor Pro” is very intuitive and easy to understand, and helped (me anyway) understand what a compressor is doing, and the Keely “Bassist” is a simple and effective one.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

My favorite years for a T-bird and that creamy white is very classy. In fantasy-land I'd have two - that one and this one...

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to me, this is the real and only TBird….

 

[dagrev]

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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Just get a bass capo. Problem solved.

 

[Rickplaysbass]

Dang, that's some serious bucks.

No, but another thread I'm in loves them. What's the deal?

boutique, holy grail stuff…brainchild of (Bay Area’s) Bill Putnam and Teletronix….worked on many an LA-2 leveling amp back in the day....check out the Universal Audio (UA) story….historic, fascinating stuff….
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The only way I can explain it is that it legitimately feels like plugging into a real 1176 I've done numerous times in the studio. The punch is immediately apparent. It literally feels like dragging around an a studio chain with me. There's a certain amount of color added but it just evens everything out while making it all pop.

Keep in mind, I think I'm the only one in here that doesn't run through amps anymore. Ymmv

 

[MCF]

to me, this is the real and only TBird….
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[BklynKen]

Dang, that's some serious bucks.

Let's see all your gear.

 

[dagrev]

We live by a cliff. Drop over sometime.

We all know FL is flat. Have you been in the Peanut Butter Whiskey again?

 

[Bent77]

My favorite years for a T-bird and that creamy white is very classy. In fantasy-land I'd have two - that one and this one...

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Always liked the tail end much more than the front

 

[Bent77]

to me, this is the real and only TBird….
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Preferably white with Suzanne Somers

 

[Bent77]

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Yes that one!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have the Cali76 “compact bass” pedal. I like it but I find the controls a little trickier. Just a note, on my “compact bass” model, ratio at full CCW is equal to 4:1. Someone somewhere in TB land filled me in on that, the manual said nothing about it and I’d assume full CCW on ratio would mean 1:1.

I have a couple others I like better. Keely “Compressor Pro” is very intuitive and easy to understand, and helped (me anyway) understand what a compressor is doing, and the Keely “Bassist” is a simple and effective one.

That Keely pro model looks really sweet. If I weren't happy with my MXR Bass Comp, I'd be looking at that.

 

[Rickplaysbass]

I have the Cali76 “compact bass” pedal. I like it but I find the controls a little trickier. Just a note, on my “compact bass” model, ratio at full CCW is equal to 4:1. Someone somewhere in TB land filled me in on that, the manual said nothing about it and I’d assume full CCW on ratio would mean 1:1.

I have a couple others I like better. Keely “Compressor Pro” is very intuitive and easy to understand, and helped (me anyway) understand what a compressor is doing, and the Keely “Bassist” is a simple and effective one.

Yeah, this one is two 1176 compressor running in series with the ability to run a dry blend for parallel compression. I've mixed and mastered for years and an 1176 into an LA2A is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Playing with the attack and release on these kinda let's you get a damn close approximation to that signal chain. The ratio is fixed at 4:1 on this particular pedal. Which is perfectly fine by me since that's kinda my go to on bass.