Well, he’ll probably need it, pretty sure his whole area is gone now. I’m getting gear packed, the Eaton fire in Pasadena is starting to close in. My old place in Glendale has been evacuated already.
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Thunderbird Club
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Yes. We’re at the northeast corner of Ventura County, southwest corner of Kern County, with Santa Barbara County just to the west. Lucky so far.
I have not heard about the cause of the Palisades fire. Another started in Pasadena last night. Then another one after midnight in Sylmar. The latter may have been caused by a transformer explosion.
Cool! Great to see you in action, Ken!
I doubt that her husband-a Prince-would like that.
Another great shot!Whitebird Wednesday.............
The personal history of many royals is very "interesting" at times so who knows.I doubt that her husband-a Prince-would like that.
and in many cases, itching for new blood.....
You bring up a good point and something to clearly watch out for when modding basses to three or more pickups. There’s actually two major factors to consider, one as you noted is the magnetic pull on the strings which can cause chorus and warble effects and even effect intonation, the other is signal phasing and cancellation due to multiple pickups offsetting each other at various frequencies.
The magnetic pull is an easy issue to design out by not using exceptionally strong magnetic pickups and positioning the height of the pickup correctly to avoid unwanted string pull. The cancellation issue is best dealt with by using non similar pickups in close proximity to each other.
In Jeff’s case (@JJR58 ) he wisely used a thunderbird sidewinder pickup between the two Thunder ranch pickups. This dissimilar pup layout eliminated any cancellation effect and gave his Tbird a truly unique and beautiful voice. I’ve had similar luck with ChinaBucker pickups. Again, dissimilar layout is the key. Mine are bridge at the neck, neck at the middle and bridge at the bridge positions. Works phenomenally good with each pickup having its own volume and tone stack and allowed me to use a unique tone cap for each pickup as well. Super flexible sound palette that goes from bark to thick fat bottom and everything in between even simultaneously. She’s called the BlingBird…
I’m in the middle of a four pickup build now that will use a similar control spec except it will have a bridge/neck/bridge/neck pickup configuration. The magnetic pull will be the real challenge on this one since I’m using Epiphone Goth pickups (not overly strong but certainly not weak magnets). The pup cavities will be routed extra deep to allow possibly needed space between the strings and pickups.
Even nicer Thunderbird.
This is terrible. Is this a “Santa Ana winds” thing? I mean since when is January fire season?
Since we’ve cycled into a historically dry winter down here with barely any precipitation since April. I do not recall it being this dry down here since about ‘07 or thereabouts. Models are showing some rain and snow next month. Maybe. The bad thing is that with all the rain and snow in ‘22 and ‘23, the brush became too overgrown. Like what happened in NoCal with all the rain in ‘16 and ‘17 that set Paradise up for the devastating fire in ‘18. Unfortunately, what is happening down here is turning into the biggest fire disaster, at least dollar wise, in US history.
