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Thunderbird Club

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BklynKen said:
Let's see all your gear. ;)
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I know several people (mostly on TB, but a few in person) with a slew of pedals (often only a few on their board at once) in the $400-$500 range, plus their preamp/DI which is anywhere from $600 to almost $3000 (Noble). A couple of them have recently switched to helix or Stomp digital modeling pedals to replace almost their whole board from before, swearing they can't hear a difference. Maybe they can't, but it's still interesting to watch after how much they swore by their old rigs. Not putting anyone down, just observing.
 
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Gaolee said:
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 Not playing the upright so much means the octaver has been replaced by a Mooer Bass Fog.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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I'd say the only essentials are the OC-2 and the phaser, everything else is fluff.
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I know several people (mostly on TB, but a few in person) with a slew of pedals (often only a few on their board at once) in the $400-$500 range, plus their preamp/DI which is anywhere from $600 to almost $3000 (Noble). A couple of them have recently switched to helix or Stomp digital modeling pedals to replace almost their whole board from before, swearing they can't hear a difference. Maybe they can't, but it's still interesting to watch after how much they swore by their old rigs. Not putting anyone down, just observing.
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I'm sure those modelers are great, but if I'm at a gig, last thing I want to do is start going through menus to try and fix or adjust stuff. I'm sure it's mostly set and forget, but having the physical pedals there just to be able to quickly tweak means a lot to me.
 
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BklynKen said:
I'm sure those modelers are great, but if I'm at a gig, last thing I want to do is start going through menus to try and fix or adjust stuff. I'm sure it's mostly set and forget, but having the physical pedals there just to be able to quickly tweak means a lot to me.
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I have to agree. I have a pretty simple Zoom B3n and I don't like their chorus settings. I have never figured out what to change so it is more subtle and less wah wah. The instruction book has no information on all the settings for patches...
 
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Miles_ONeal said:
I know several people (mostly on TB, but a few in person) with a slew of pedals (often only a few on their board at once) in the $400-$500 range, plus their preamp/DI which is anywhere from $600 to almost $3000 (Noble). A couple of them have recently switched to helix or Stomp digital modeling pedals to replace almost their whole board from before, swearing they can't hear a difference. Maybe they can't, but it's still interesting to watch after how much they swore by their old rigs. Not putting anyone down, just observing.
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I run entirely on a Kemper or hx stomp now.

My best anecdote was my 63 b15n. The last year they were handwired. It sounded fantastic. I took it with me to Sonic Ranch in Tornillo for a session. I took my Kemper with me. While we were there we profiled it as just the amp and with a while chain after the mic. Reamped a DI take through the real things and the Kemper. We could all hear a difference in the two. But the only one of us that could reliably pick which was which was the guy running the tracks. That amp is basically holy Grail status for some folks and I couldn't reliably pick it from my profiles. Couple that with the fact that I get way more headroom through my Kemper and a k12.2 and now I could comfortably gig that "amp" at any IEM gig or backline gig comfortably. I can run that "amp" through FOH anywhere. All that combined to make me a convert.


Anyways, sloppy one take no edits no click AB of my Mike Lull Bird straight in without and with the Cali76 stacked in a pretty tame parallel compression setting. Gain matching was just done using my ears through some headphones and the cali output knob. First time through is direct, second time has the Cali on.

 
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