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Thunderbird Club
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It’s Orlando. I’m thinking Mike has at least a good ten years of playing ahead of him. For someone of his caliber, finding work is likely going to be easier than he thinks right now. I’m guessing his daughter is concerned and wants him closer. So him relocating makes sense. But it’s another chapter, not the end. @GonePlaid, PM me and set up a call if you want to talk. It will all work out.
I haven’t interacted with hm at all other than “like” his posts. So who knows.
Totally agree. I have the ‘21 NR and it’s my number two. I also put one in my first BaCH Ii. It sounds phenomenal. They are the best bang for the buck in the Alnico Tbird pickup world IMO. Gibson listened and did us a solid.
Part of the reason I play in a Community band is to keep my reading chops up.
+a trillion.
You are correct,. To a point. The SVT and my Mesas can compensate. But they are not well rounded IMO. Others disagree. And that’s fine. I’m half deaf with tinnitus. The 760s are the hardest for me to dial in to what I like. But everyone is different.
Only bass I have ( out of too many ) with tort. But it fits the look. Reminding me it’s one of many projects to send to Irv to make replacement guards for.
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On '60s Teisco guitars and basses, the tone knob full clockwise is bass and full 'off' counterclockwise - treble. For an electric bass... full "tone" is more logically BASS.
Yes. I will say the amp/cab being used makes a difference. Never a problem with my Ampeg heads. Sounds fantastic. Heads and cabs naturally lacking some lows (compared with others), will make this issue more apparent. I must have big lows and the 760s are big an punchy via Ampegs. I have yet to use a VP through the ABM yet. I suspect I will prefer the Ampeg for those. The ABM has tighter but less lowend with both being flat. To get the same bigness as the Ampeg at noon the ABM would need to be about 2 maybe 3:00.
Any room here for a class action against tort and it's makers (where ever the big pockets are)? Personal injury suit with some pain suffering thrown in for that was inflicted upon the eyes after decades of unsolicited exposure?
Yes, it's all subjective and all the variables add up or take away from the tonal objective. I would add that I find a huge difference in home vs big room live use. At home my VPs are OK. In a big room the lows fill out and that really helps. It (big room/live) and Ampeg was hurting with the NR, '06 and '55 Pbass, and the Ashdown tightened up the lows and fixed that. To the point that those basses don't just sound good live, they sound fantastic with the ABM. Just shows how all the parts make the whole.
I love my one Epiphone VP with the 760’s, and I would agree they are a little light in the lows. I wonder if it has more to do with placement and maybe the wood and poly finish on that instrument that they are in? Bringing up the bass knob is also maybe adding other low frequencies, so maybe it’s not a true compensation of what the pickups are missing vs a different pickup?
The Gibson Vintage Reissue pickups are fantastic. I have them in my ‘97 Gibson ‘bird. If they offered them with nickel covers I would likely have them in one of my others. All of my other ‘birds have either Lollar, Novak, Dunable, Gemini, or Thunderbucker 66’s in them. All good pickups! All those pickups have nickel covers and matching nickel rings, bridge, tuners.
The Gibson Vintage Reissue pickups are fantastic. I have them in my ‘97 Gibson ‘bird. If they offered them with nickel covers I would likely have them in one of my others. All of my other ‘birds have either Lollar, Novak, Dunable, Gemini, or Thunderbucker 66’s in them. All good pickups! All those pickups have nickel covers and matching nickel rings, bridge, tuners.
obsessed with bass related stuff........some angles of the P bass are (imho) unbeatable....
^^^This. My basses sound different when I'm playing at home practicing vs at home rehearsing with a band vs on stage with a band.
I do tend to like a mid-forward tone when playing with a band anyway.
How's this for FedMess delivery? On the steps (light rain off and on today so far). Plenty of room on the porch. I don't know if they hire stupid people or just idiots. A couple weeks ago the same dude backed his truck up over the curb (gunning it to get it over the curb), and into the grass to turn around after it had rained. Wife saw it and ran out and yelled to not drive in the grass. Who knows if he heard, but just drove off. Why is it difficult to understand that blacktop is for vehicles and grass is not?
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