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Mine was the 740. Surprisingly nimble. Great seats. Great AC (I live in Bako). Great stereo. The late 80’s cars were their best. The first version of the circa 2000 S80 was stellar with the biturbos as was the 2nd iteration and the original XC 90 with the Yamaha V8s. Sadly, Ford bled them dry and sold them to Geely. The cars are pretty sad these days. I gave up and drive Subarus these days.
Brooks did a 12 string Alumitone bird IIRC, so I’m less inclined to go that route. Looking for something that probably hasn’t been done on a bird. I’ve listened to a lot of Alumitone equipped basses and most seemed to lack the thick bottom end I like. That’s why I was considering an active preamp, but I have to admit I’ve never heard an active Alumitone set up before, so it might be really cool.
Interesting pickups. I haven’t researched them at all but the cream ones with cream trim rings might be an interesting look on a blonde bird. I’ll have to try and find some sound clips.I'm very curious about Serek's LZN-B90 pickups, which he sells separately. They're his bass version of the P-100, which is a humbucker version of the P-90.
Adjustable B90 Single Bass Pickups - Serek Basses
Full and warm with a touch of single-coil bite, the B90 will hold its own in any single-pickup bass.serekbasses.com
Never played a Grabber before but the concept always seemed interesting. Not sure if the Grabber pup positions have a major impact on the sound or if its just more nuance. Unfortunately it’ll eat up a lot of flame top real estate on the bass and may be better suited to the flat top NR vs the raised center reverse.
If I went grabber that’s the route I’d go.
I agree. I’d have to double check the dimensions on the Ric horseshoe pickup to see if it would even fit on the raised center section of the reverse. The Outlaw tribute was my original plan but the more I look into it the more I think the MPC cartridges could get pretty finicky, they don’t seem like a particularly robust design. But as a non pedal player it looks kinda fun to be able access flanger, overdrive, octave and other effects without being tied to a pedal board. The stingray/mudbucker arrangement would offer some very interesting opposing sounds the might be very cool blended through a two or three band preamp.
I agree, and as I noted, it’s already been done, so I’m less likely to go this route.
Nordy has some great stuff. I have their Zen blades in my pink sparkle NR. Sounds great with the East preamp.
And an Alumitone bird as well. Both came out great.
Love the sound of a Mudbucker. Love the sound of a Stingray. Combining the two might be too much of a good thing or it might be pure bliss. I have a test mule and a spare stingray pickup and preamps, I’d just need to buy a vintage Mudbucker to see how the combo sounds. I know the Mudbucker can be pretty overpowering so it would be interesting to find out how well it blends with the Ray pup, an active preamp would be essential for the loading or possibly a dedicated volume and bass treble stack for each pickup. Years ago I worked with John East to build a similar custom preamp for a stingray/P bass build I did. It came out great.
wicked fast!....more of a track/Trans Am kinda guy...
They were also a great car. GM bought them and killed them.
Agree. No telling how many albums he played on.
Talk about a wild guess.Blue.
Thunderbird Thursday, jeez I miss the Sun.
That goes without saying. It’ll definitely be a Thunderbird shape. Most likely a ‘32 scale Reverse. Probably with an Ebony board.Blue.
Damn that looks sweet! Dual Volumes or Volume & Tone?Thunderbird Thursday!!
That’s a PITA.I'm getting really pist(sp?) I can't watch videos y'all put up.
