Thunderbird Club

[/\/\3phist0]

You can claw back a bit more high end with 500k volume pots. This will also increase the output a bit.

Heck with it. Go series!

Seriously love series wiring.
The boost in overall output is a big plus, employing 500k pots, balances the bass boost that comes with 4 coils in series, which can be DARK !!
More resistance in the circuit = shunting less high frequency to ground.

 

[ectoflanger]

What about alternate tunings? Not esoteric things but going down to Eb. Because a recent post on Trower brought to mind that he tuned to Eb for his solo albums to allow easier bends on 11 gauge strings. Now that he's nearly 80, he tunes to D and uses 12 or 13 gauge strings.

I played with guitarists who love Trower and they always use standard tuning but I used to keep at least one bass tuned to Eb to learn and play Trower 70's material. I'm also inclined to cover ti in that way, but there aren't many people who want do dedicate a guitar to that tuning-- and you know it is a pain to change tunings in a gig because sometimes it takes a bit for the instrument to adapt and stay true to the new tuning.

Myself I don't like dedicating an instrument to a different tuning because I love them all and may want to play in standard tuning with it-

How do you guys feel about the alternate tunings? In some cases I feel that one should maintain the original recorded one because it sounds better, for example the 70's Trower material. And truth be told, in my humble opinion some songs sound better in certain tunings-

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Nice rig!
I was lucky enough to see Robin Trower in '75 when James Dewar was the voice of the band, that man had an incredible, beautiful voice................

Still one of my faves.




This song.........

Dewar on an EB, that voice of his! Some people really know how to make a Strat sound good, Trower is one of them.

can't think of a better title than Bridge of Sighs to denote despair.....this would have been your last sight of the free world .......

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

What about alternate tunings? Not esoteric things but going down to Eb. Because a recent post on Trower brought to mind that he tuned to Eb for his solo albums to allow easier bends on 11 gauge strings. Now that he's nearly 80, he tunes to D and uses 12 or 13 gauge strings.

I played with guitarists who love Trower and they always use standard tuning but I used to keep at least one bass tuned to Eb to learn and play Trower 70's material. I'm also inclined to cover ti in that way, but there aren't many people who want do dedicate a guitar to that tuning-- and you know it is a pain to change tunings in a gig because sometimes it takes a bit for the instrument to adapt and stay true to the new tuning.

Myself I don't like dedicating an instrument to a different tuning because I love them all and may want to play in standard tuning with it-

How do you guys feel about the alternate tunings? In some cases I feel that one should maintain the original recorded one because it sounds better, for example the 70's Trower material. And truth be told, in my humble opinion some songs sound better in certain tunings-

many singers like Eb....and of course there's always.....

 

[GBassNorth]

More on that flexible tone cap that I’m now putting in all my builds…

Selectable Tone Cap

Upgrade your tone cap with the Mythos Selectable Tone Cap Kit. This simple PCB gives you 5 different capacitor values that you can mix and match to give your guitar the perfect tone knob sound.

mythospedals.com

Runs about $15 and goes in the place of your normal tone cap. It has five toggles that you can use in any combination (it’s all additive) with each setting delivering the following nominal values…
All off - .0001uf
1 - .0022uf
2 - .0047uf
3 - .010uf
4 - .022uf
5 - .047uf

A quick guitar clip highlighting each setting (note the typo on the 3rd setting, it should read .010uf vs .001uf)


A great and cheap way to fine tune the tone palette on your bass.

 

[ectoflanger]

Nice rig!
I was lucky enough to see Robin Trower in '75 when James Dewar was the voice of the band, that man had an incredible, beautiful voice................

Still one of my faves.




This song.........

Dewar on an EB, that voice of his! Some people really know how to make a Strat sound good, Trower is one of them.

For sure, for sure...




What a luscious bass line! And Trower's superb phrasing- not quite rock, not quite R&B- Love that album cover by Hipgnosis too!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

and of course....WW.....

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

More on that flexible tone cap that I’m now putting in all my builds…

Selectable Tone Cap

Upgrade your tone cap with the Mythos Selectable Tone Cap Kit. This simple PCB gives you 5 different capacitor values that you can mix and match to give your guitar the perfect tone knob sound.

mythospedals.com

Runs about $15 and goes in the place of your normal tone cap. It has five toggles that you can use in any combination (it’s all additive) with each setting delivering the following nominal values…
All off - .0001uf
1 - .0022uf
2 - .0047uf
3 - .010uf
4 - .022uf
5 - .047uf

A quick guitar clip highlighting each setting (note the typo on the 3rd setting, it should read .010uf vs .001uf)


A great and cheap way to fine tune the tone palette on your bass.

Interesting...

 

[GBassNorth]

Gotta love White Wednesday…

 

[JIO]

Yep! I was there starting in 83.
Built many of those while there. The neck on the white mongrel I posted was originally on a cobalt blue Interceptor with a kahler trem.

Once the hoopla settles down, and the IP rights are determined, I am planning on making “inspired by” basses with “inspired by” MFD type pickups.

Very cool - the '80s were a heady time for guitars like G&L, Kubicki, Steinberger etc. I was turned on to G&L by my good friend Reid back in the '90s. He's a hard-core G&L guy who owns a number of their vintage guitars & an L-1000 bass. The L-2000 9v pre is my favorite active harness. There's not a bad setting on it.

My Tele L2K is one bass that can do it all. It started out as an '06 Fender '51P RI that was one of the few basses I've bought new.

 

[ectoflanger]

More on that flexible tone cap that I’m now putting in all my builds…

Selectable Tone Cap

Upgrade your tone cap with the Mythos Selectable Tone Cap Kit. This simple PCB gives you 5 different capacitor values that you can mix and match to give your guitar the perfect tone knob sound.

mythospedals.com

Runs about $15 and goes in the place of your normal tone cap. It has five toggles that you can use in any combination (it’s all additive) with each setting delivering the following nominal values…
All off - .0001uf
1 - .0022uf
2 - .0047uf
3 - .010uf
4 - .022uf
5 - .047uf

A quick guitar clip highlighting each setting (note the typo on the 3rd setting, it should read .010uf vs .001uf)


A great and cheap way to fine tune the tone palette on your bass.

Thanks for sharing- will pass it on to a guitarist friend as well-- he's all doing things to tweak his tone.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Heck with it. Go series!


Seriously love series wiring.
The boost in overall output is a big plus, employing 500k pots, balances the bass boost that comes with 4 coils in series, which can be DARK !!
More resistance in the circuit = shunting less high frequency to ground.

loading the pickup less hence less attenuation on the output...,not just high frequencies but ALL frequencies...resistors (pots) are not frequency dependent....,

 

[JIO]

More on that flexible tone cap that I’m now putting in all my builds…

Selectable Tone Cap

Upgrade your tone cap with the Mythos Selectable Tone Cap Kit. This simple PCB gives you 5 different capacitor values that you can mix and match to give your guitar the perfect tone knob sound.

mythospedals.com

Runs about $15 and goes in the place of your normal tone cap. It has five toggles that you can use in any combination (it’s all additive) with each setting delivering the following nominal values…
All off - .0001uf
1 - .0022uf
2 - .0047uf
3 - .010uf
4 - .022uf
5 - .047uf

A quick guitar clip highlighting each setting (note the typo on the 3rd setting, it should read .010uf vs .001uf)


A great and cheap way to fine tune the tone palette on your bass.

I have a Santellan Sounds Elek-Trix (passive) harness with a push-pull series/parallel pot and a similar cap-switch option in my '66 J. Unfortunately they aren't made anymore. It has 4 cap options - I use .047uf. That unit looks like it could be mounted on a pg so it can be accessed easily.

 

[MCF]

Lawyers pay me to mess with other lawyers. People like me are one of the reasons your job was awful. I get all the fun, none of the stress.

Expert stuff wasn’t really an issue. I could hold my own. I guess that’s the product of growing up in a houseful of engineers. And haveing good experts on my side. I usually laid in the weeds and then messed them up on cross at trial. They rarely saw it coming.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

More on that flexible tone cap that I’m now putting in all my builds…

Selectable Tone Cap

Upgrade your tone cap with the Mythos Selectable Tone Cap Kit. This simple PCB gives you 5 different capacitor values that you can mix and match to give your guitar the perfect tone knob sound.

mythospedals.com

Runs about $15 and goes in the place of your normal tone cap. It has five toggles that you can use in any combination (it’s all additive) with each setting delivering the following nominal values…
All off - .0001uf
1 - .0022uf
2 - .0047uf
3 - .010uf
4 - .022uf
5 - .047uf

A quick guitar clip highlighting each setting (note the typo on the 3rd setting, it should read .010uf vs .001uf)


A great and cheap way to fine tune the tone palette on your bass.

Definitely thanks for sharing real world experience!

 

[MCF]

650.00....
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Damn! Cool pawn shop find. And it has the decent headstock. You should get it!

 

[JIO]

Damn! Cool pawn shop find. And it has the decent headstock. You should get it!

That pic is from a while ago - most likely that ship has long sailed.

 

[MCF]

IF
This Does work out: West Coast GTG has a hosting spot !!!!

It’ll take some talking to get V to go all the way out there. But I’m certainly game! We have five or six within a few hours, and we could maybe get Andy over from AZ. Get Chucky, Dave, and Geo down from NoCal and it could work. And I think Ontario may have flights to Vancouver so we can get Irv down? And Will is a Jet Jockey, so we could maybe entice him to join? Who knows about Jeff; he might just decide to pop in as well.

 

[Ringhammer]

https://reverb.com/item/92425935-20...are&utm_campaign=listing&utm_content=92425935

 

[MCF]

I realize this is way belated but sometimes unwanted sounds from a tube amp are a result of a loose tube connection. Way back after disuse on my sailboat on the Gulf Coast of Texas, I got this whooshy, hissing sound from my Genz-Benz 6.0 T. Turned out that the preamp tube connection was a little loose. It's an odd arrangement with am aluminum arm with a rubber grommet that pushed down on the top of the 12AX7 tube. So I removed it and bent the retainer down a bit to add more downward force and also slightly bent some of the tube prongs to provide physical tension. Then I sprayed some high-end contact cleaner in there. Problem solved!

Never too late around here. And BTW, it’s great to have you back on the thread. We missed you.