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Thunderbird Club

#29,202
JIO said:
Interesting details - I'm looking at the tr covers on both of your 64's and see they are nearly butting up to the nut. (slight gap) If you look at mine that I posted a few posts back - you'll see the gap on mine is as wide as the nut! 100% stock (I did install the brass nut but it mimicked the original in size/width) - another "assembled by humans" detail.
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Dang, man! Cover your nut gap!
 
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willsellout said:
So I've been thinking about trying to get a T-bird but in a 5 string version. From what I can gather you can either pay for Mike Lull to make you one or find an Epiphone Thunderbird bass pro V on eBay.

I guess my question is how are the 5 string epiphones? How is the B string?

Thanks!
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There's also the very elusive Gibson Studio V (if @TBird1958 has never had one, and not for a lack of trying, it must be elusive right?) No complaints with the B string.
 
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hairypete1138 said:
Hi, I'm looking to join the club as a new member.
Here are a couple of pics of my birds - a black Tokai TB48 that I've had for 6 years and that is heavier than the moon, and my main baby, an Epiphone Classic Pro in SB.
Looking forward to more followers of the TBird cause.
Cheers
Pete
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How did you get that bridge on there and still be able to play it that way, I cant see a shim under it. I have a new bridge for mine but I think the only thing keeping me from installing it is a shim.
 
#29,211
DoctorNop said:
I've got a little question for you TBirds owner.
I'm still looking for my next purchase, I try and experiment everything possible to avoid some mistakes I made in my younger life (buying instruments that don't really fits my playing).
The TB is in a good place to be my next one, i've tried some that really convince me, but never with "my setup" (amps, pedals etc..). I'm convinced on the tone and the playability I had in a clean tone, but I use an Orange OB1. For people who doesn't know it, it's an amp with a blend control and a Fuzz, to keep low end and add fuzz.

The Tbirds I tried were all (all... let's be honest... Only 2) very "growl machine" with a good low end, but this point made me ask a question. Does the Thunderbird take well fuzz pedal (in my case, Orange Fuzz with a blend)?
I had a Rickenbacker 4003, a JB, and they take well my tone, but they all had less bottom end than the TB I tried.
Do you have some examples maybe, of Fuzz Thunderbird? Or in your experience, do you think they can handle well fuzz? i'm not speaking about overdrive, or "grit", but a Fuzz you could have with a Big Muff Pi for example.

Thanks buddies !
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I have gone full fuzz, initially with the built in rumble overdrive fully dimed (gain and overdrive) and it has a fat low end. I needed a slight grit tone in my set so I use the amp overdrive set for grit, and put my boss odb3 on the pedalboard for the fuzz. Like your amp it has a blend, and I use it with a full on high gain fuzz setting, blended back down where there is still a lot of dry coming through. I even kick it in on a ballad where the guitar solo is, to cover some of the sonic space of the rhythm guitar track on the album.

I am using epiphone thunderbirds, the cheap ones, a IV and a Goth with stock pickups. They take fuzz pretty well.
 
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I found an unexpected sweet spot with the 2015 through the Acoustic Control 126 combo last night at band practice. Rolling off the tone, keeping the neck at about 9 and bridge about 8. Amp and all other EQ set flat. New to me Boss compressor (called a bass limiter for some reason) set at 12 all the way across.

It got all creamy and even. I could still get plenty of dynamics, but it tamed my sometimes awful right hand technique. If anything, the sound was a little clearer, and the difference between fingers, thumb, popping, and pick were more distinct. It will be different next time around. I'll try the same settings and hate it. That's the way it always goes.
 
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Gaolee said:
I found an unexpected sweet spot with the 2015 through the Acoustic Control 126 combo last night at band practice. Rolling off the tone, keeping the neck at about 9 and bridge about 8. Amp and all other EQ set flat. New to me Boss compressor (called a bass limiter for some reason) set at 12 all the way across.

It got all creamy and even. I could still get plenty of dynamics, but it tamed my sometimes awful right hand technique. If anything, the sound was a little clearer, and the difference between fingers, thumb, popping, and pick were more distinct. It will be different next time around. I'll try the same settings and hate it. That's the way it always goes.
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LMB-3? It's very subtle by all accounts. If you have the opportunity you should try out an optical comp. The Diamond BCP1 if you can beg steal or borrow...
 
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kat888 said:
LMB-3? It's very subtle by all accounts. If you have the opportunity you should try out an optical comp. The Diamond BCP1 if you can beg steal or borrow...
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Yes, that's the one. I'm really happy with it. I think my brother has a Diamond. I know he has one that's good and expensive, relative to the Boss. I might see if I can borrow it one evening and see what it does.

For what its worth, I got the Boss after wasting way too much time reading reviews here: Compressor Reviews

I'm pretty amazed at what the Boss does, and how good it can sound with a guitar, too. I'm a lousy guitarist, but that doesn't stop me from having a whole lot of fun with it. Set a certain way, the compressor makes the attack disappear and the sound swell then tail off, like some kind of oddball outer space something or another. Add in some feedback and reverb and it could be complete sonic mayhem. If you never hear from me again, you will know I got eaten by noises coming out of shiny boxes.
 
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D.M.N. said:
Right, I'm sure it's already been discussed but any of you going to the Seattle GTG this weekend? I'm going to try to make it down, though I'll have to leave early thanks to the bloody ferry schedules.
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It's my nephew's birthday party, but I'm hoping to sneak out and get there sometime during the proceedings. I'm pretty sure Mark will be there, probably in character.
 
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D.M.N. said:
Right, I'm sure it's already been discussed but any of you going to the Seattle GTG this weekend? I'm going to try to make it down, though I'll have to leave early thanks to the bloody ferry schedules.
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I'll be there Dylan! Look for lots of(probably blue) hair!

Anything for my group of Birds that you'd like to try?
 
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