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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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Wow! Sounds killer by all!
- Jun 30, 2010
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None of my hollow-body basses sound like an upright but they do have an acoustic sound/tone. My Ex-Factorbird comes close being fret-less but still wouldn't be confused with an upright. Piezo usually delivers a close to double-bass tone in a hollow-body bass guitar.
Other than something like I never need the sound. And I can get close enough on a Thunderbird for my rare needs.
Oh yeah!!!!
I'd say ~95% of the time I try to put forth(or fifth)as clean a tone as possible. Not necessarily UB-y, but also not growly. My gear can certainly do that but it doesn't fit most of what we do. Which is a part of why most demos don't impress me. Gimme a variety of what the bass/amp/ 'toy'/whatever can do. It's also why the OD circuit on my amp(s) is off/mute. I used to use OD on one song which we rarely play anymore. It wasn't worth hooking up the foot switch for that one-maybe-song. I have more than enuff other 'carp'(PA, mixer, 4 mic cables, cd player[break music], drummer's spot monitor, etc.)to hook up as it is.
Many thanks to my brother man @Chucky Stiletti for this.
Short, raunchy, and a bit hacky.
But what I wanna hear a TBird do.
Short, raunchy, and a bit hacky.
But what I wanna hear a TBird do.
this is a fun one on the bass……haven’t played it in years, they wanna add it to the set…… 
this is a fun one on the bass……haven’t played it in years, they wanna add it to the set……
You are just the man to do it!
And I love this song.
It really moves.
Sounds good. Punchy, lotta mids.
Whenever any of y'all post clips of what you do, I find them interesting. It's just not the tone I'm looking to put out. I'm certain that my choice of sound is in the minority among Thunderbirders, but the bass has given me all the variety of sounds I want from it-and my choice of 7ender amps.
EDIT:
The tone I used to use back in the late 60s/early 70s with my 66 Gibson EB-3 [Mudbucker only] had very little definition, but it by damn filled the room("Surround Sound"-per @dagrev). I do add some mids these days, but it's not a "typical" TBird tone. Once again shooting holes in the 'one trick pony' myth. I used the 'Bird in our last community concert band concert. No one really knew a 'difference'.
'Cept me.
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I like! Which pickups and settings?
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this is a fun one on the bass……haven’t played it in years, they wanna add it to the set……
I always dug this!
