Thunderbird Club

[Stealth57]

Ugly, but apparently stable.................. Kinda like me!

When was the last time you were called stable

 

[TBird1958]

When was the last time you were called stable

Early in this century, how about you?

 

[Stealth57]

Early in this century, how about you?

You know my daughter’s analysis.

 

[JJR58]

I guess I'm looking for a voice that's generally more mids-heavy... Ground rounds could work, I'll look in about those Smiths, thanks.

The SIT Pressure wounds might get you that.

 

[TBird1958]

You know my daughter’s analysis.

I must have missed that, but I can imagine. Did you play your show yet?

 

[Count Bassie]

The SIT Pressure wounds might get you that.

On fretless?

 

[Count Bassie]

L

Mids you say? Have you tried labella LTF’s?

LTF?

 

[Stealth57]

I must have missed that, but I can imagine. Did you play your show yet?

Monday ~9:45pm

 

[TBird1958]

Monday ~9:45pm

That's 15 minutes before my bed time - if I'm lucky!

 

[Count Bassie]

Mids you say? Have you tried labella LTF’s?

Those ain't cheap!

 

[dagrev]

I probably should have said something a few weeks ago, but please all - look after your health as we all get older.

I found out a few weeks ago that the son of one of my Canadian cousins died suddenly and unexpectedly.

From what I understand it was about a week after they celebrated his 50th birthday. He had been to hockey - practice I think - got home and just dropped dead with a massive heart attack.

As the Australian medical authorities say - often the first sign of cardiac issues is sudden death.

Please take care of yourselves everyone.

Sorry to hear that.
Thanks, good advice and reminder that we all have an expiration date. It may have changed, but with men roughly 1/3 have no symptoms.

 

[dagrev]

Well, dammit it only made it to New Mexico yesterday.
Hate FedEx they are ALWAYS later than estimates.

Hate that. With FedMess if you get the package you are fortunate.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

L

LTF?

Low tension flats.
85% of what TI flats are coveted for:

Amazon.com

 

[JJR58]

On fretless?

Yes, quite possibly.
Maybe even more so with a fretless.

 

[dagrev]

Someone please tell me about nylon tapewound strings, ala LaBella “Deep Talkin’ Bass” black nylon tapewound.

I have 4 medium scale basses and can’t find medium scale rounds in anything heavier than 50-105. I know there are flats that will work good on these, adding that little bit of tension the shorter than 34” scale needs, but I also want to tune one to D-Standard/drop C, and all of the medium scale basses I have, set up as well as I can, with a little bit of relief and low action are a bit buzzy for my taste with 50-105, rounds. With same gauge flats I can get them playing great, even in Eb.

The LaBellas have a set of the black nylon tapewound in 60-115. This seems like a good solution for tuning a medium scale basses to D-Standard and Drop C, but are these strings basically a dead out of the pack set, intended to be fully “thuddy” or is there any brightness at all to these?

I have them on my '06 Thunderbird, following Chuck's advice. Which was spot on for TB+ pickups. I have not had them on anything else but they are not dull sounding and nothing like dead at all. Don't sound like flats and not like rounds, as you can imagine. They are more flexible than strings of similar gauge. Kind of TI-ish. Drop tuning could be an issue. I love 'em. They are very slick feeling. May sound awful on something else, but they are great on the '06.

 

[Ringhammer]

I feel like someone here was really searching for one of these:

https://reverb.com/item/89453894-gi...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=89453894

 

[Instagator]

Learning Tommy Shannon's version of "The Sky Is Crying" has taken me the better part of a year to play halfway competently.

Albert Collins..The master of the telecaster. Great video. Thanks,

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I have had trouble chasing down distortion. Thinking a speaker was bad and it turned out to be in the pedalboard? Yup, done that!

What was it?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Amp stuff...
Last night I played in the house band for an open mic. I had the Classic Pro running through my pedalboard, then the Mesa TT-800 into the Schroeder 1210.
Distortion like you read about. I was devastated. All the pedals were turned off, bypassing everything.
After the first set I took the board out of the path, direct to the amp. Distortion was gone.
I did not expect that from a board with nothing on. It's been a little embarrassing frankly, chasing my tail with this whole speaker distortion thing, lol. I gotta bring my stress level down.
I'll be looking at using the effects loop, as well as trying one pedal at a time this weekend. I wouldn't mind having fewer pedals.
A new system sure enough puts me through it.
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Please keep us posted!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I'll be listening. I'm looking for a set of slightly brighter flats for my Westone fretless. I've got Cobalt Flats on it now.

I thought CFs were as bright as flats came.
Ah, well. They’re more than bright enough for me!