Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

And to tie it all together, who owns and plays Jaco's bass of doom?

Metallica's Robert Trujillo.

Recovered (briefly played) and returned to Jaco's family estate from what I've read.

 

[Gaolee]

Not yet a t-bird owner, but looking at an epiphone pro iv with active pickups online. Are the pickups passive and made active by the preamp? Is there a bypass switch like on my G&L L2000?
The epiphone pickups are described as T-Pro bass humbuckers. Are they standard on passive t-birds or only on the pro iv model?
I would likely want to remove the preamp and make boost/eq adjustments with my sansamp preamp using the stock pickups.
Any owners with info would be appreciated!

No bypass switch. I cannot tell you whether the pickups work without a preamp.

Mine ate batteries and would go silent when the battery was done. It is completely rewired and fretless now. It is also getting refinished metallic green.

The construction and wood are great. The bridge is good. The tuners work fine. I am not a fan of the electronics. As a platform for swapping pickups, they are excellent.

But try the active circuit before doing what I did. You may like it better than I did.

 

[JIO]

No bypass switch. I cannot tell you whether the pickups work without a preamp.

Mine ate batteries and would go silent when the battery was done. It is completely rewired and fretless now. It is also getting refinished metallic green.

The construction and wood are great. The bridge is good. The tuners work fine. I am not a fan of the electronics. As a platform for swapping pickups, they are excellent.

But try the active circuit before doing what I did. You may like it better than I did.

I feel an active bass w/o bypass choice to passive is a design flaw. The original Kubicki Ex-Factor 18v system has two active options and two passive options. The G&L L2000 has a passive setting that sounds as good as the two active settings. EMG has active pu's but they can be wired passive and they sound good.

 

[GonePlaid]

I wish I could go, but due to the debt I have to pay off after the death of my mother last year, I simply can't go anywhere for at least up coming three years.

Sorry for your loss-and the debt.

 

[K. Powell]

I feel an active bass w/o bypass choice to passive is a design flaw. The original Kubicki Ex-Factor 18v system has two active options and two passive options. The G&L L2000 has a passive setting that sounds as good as the two active settings. EMG has active pu's but they can be wired passive and they sound good.

I haven’t used the active circuit in my L2000 for years. Mfd pickups are hefty enough in passive mode for me.

 

[GonePlaid]

I feel an active bass w/o bypass choice to passive is a design flaw. The original Kubicki Ex-Factor 18v system has two active options and two passive options. The G&L L2000 has a passive setting that sounds as good as the two active settings. EMG has active pu's but they can be wired passive and they sound good.

Hmm. I'm gonna hafta try my '95 LPB2/5 without a battery. The factory Barts prolly won't make a sound. (Too late here in EDT zone).

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Let’s do this!!!

Let’s go!

 

[JIO]

TSC rehearsed (for the 1st time) this awesome song tonight - great [1969] version* - Kirstin will kill it. I love songs like this - starkly simple - big anthemic chorus (everybody sing along!) - all about expression of performance. Love LZ's version equally - but also love this rendition - a stripped-down folky/bluesy/churchy take.

* SS covered it shortly after LZ1 - considered the 1st artist to cover it. Love her voice/delivery - almost sounds Joplin-esk starting off.

 

[Stealth57]

Let’s do this!!!
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Better setup with the drum kit this time. More room for the important instrument. John Michael still sitting at the bar?

 

[JIO]

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Love the Mesa - Ashdown stage flanking.

 

[JIO]

One of the greatest rock songs... ever -

 

[JIO]

...along with this one - and this performance!

 

[Basvarken]

Well, I guess that settles it. I need to look for one.

Don't hold your breath. I haven't seen one of those again in 15 years.
They had an Ibanez shape headstock.

 

[dagrev]

I feel an active bass w/o bypass choice to passive is a design flaw. The original Kubicki Ex-Factor 18v system has two active options and two passive options. The G&L L2000 has a passive setting that sounds as good as the two active settings. EMG has active pu's but they can be wired passive and they sound good.

 

[dagrev]

I haven’t used the active circuit in my L2000 for years. Mfd pickups are hefty enough in passive mode for me.

Word! I only use active for maybe one song--if I just want to hear what it would sound like. I could leave the batteries out of mine and be just fine.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

No bypass switch. I cannot tell you whether the pickups work without a preamp.

Mine ate batteries and would go silent when the battery was done. It is completely rewired and fretless now. It is also getting refinished metallic green.

The construction and wood are great. The bridge is good. The tuners work fine. I am not a fan of the electronics. As a platform for swapping pickups, they are excellent.

But try the active circuit before doing what I did. You may like it better than I did.

Pickups work on their own. But i have read they’re a very clean, somewhat bland tone.

 

[Gaolee]

I feel an active bass w/o bypass choice to passive is a design flaw. The original Kubicki Ex-Factor 18v system has two active options and two passive options. The G&L L2000 has a passive setting that sounds as good as the two active settings. EMG has active pu's but they can be wired passive and they sound good.

When you consider how good the basic instrument is and the price point, you would expect some flaws. I suppose there would be a way to wire in a bypass switch. I never bothered to do that. If I had done that, maybe the original pickups would have been just fine. I don't know what I did with them at this point. There's probably a bag with a bunch of stuff including the preamp from that bass somewhere in my parts drawer.

 

[Gaolee]

Don't hold your breath. I haven't seen one of those again in 15 years.
They had an Ibanez shape headstock.

Me "looking" for anything is more a matter of just noticing if it ever turns up. At this point, it just means I won't automatically dismiss an ad if it says Bach. I'm a minority around here, but I just flat don't like the NR shape much. It's not the only heresy.

 

[JIO]

John Bonham is good (an understatement) but he credited this guy as his main influence.



He's pullin' a young Jeff look here ...1975 - the same year as this -

 

[Ringhammer]

I'm a minority around here, but I just flat don't like the NR shape much.

I’m with you there brother.

Probably a good thing I don’t like the look, Otherwise I’d probably have at least three more basses on my list of must haves. A black one, a white one and a burst….