I’ve played it. It’s a very cool bass. Need to get one one of these days.
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Thunderbird Club
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I played a Hondo "version" for fun in a store once way, way back when they were a thing. That I played it was all I recall.
Then Hondo shifted to making "Thunderbirds." Like Dave's, come to think of it.
Well, the earthquake swarm decided to start up again. This time with some minor damage to items on shelves. The blue dot was 4.3. Not huge, but when just a few hundred yards away, it moves the house. The others were 2.5-3.9.
Sweet, I want to try one of those. I would've had Carlo build me one with a 33"-scale if I'd have been flush, but the new Gibsons look cool.
Maybe I missed something. Some Ruby tubes are actually rebranded JJ? And you can tell by the sticker?
That is, I'm not ignoring.... @GBassNorth
more expensive than toe fetish....tube fetish...(I get it!)
I hope all is well. That's considered an real earthquake here. Anything in the 4s is considered a big deal. There a 5.2 about 80 miles from Louisville about 2008 that caused damage in houses. Mostly the brick veneer. There were two. One while we were laying in bed before the alarm and we woke up feeling like the bed was shaking (and it wasn't us). Sure enough it was and we weren't dreaming. A couple hours later I was in the living room and the dog started looking out the back french doors and acting like someone was out there. Then the a rumble and the house felt like it went forward and backward a 3-4 times. We had no damage but things rattled in cabinets.
I should probably get your Hondo for safe keeping.
exactly my point, provenance of tubes is not white or black, more interesting (to me) is that JJ recommissioned some old NOS plants (Czech Republic) to restart manufacturing of some of the complete assembly of some tube types and partial assembly of other types and if I'm not mistaken, old Tung-Sol machines have been recommissioned in China by another manufacturer......been working on tube amps since before any of those novelty brands including GT....beautiful demand creation exercise all the way around....for better or for worse, my ears are not that critical.....
Stay safe Dave!
If you haven’t already done so, you might want to consider putting any valuable basses that are on hangers or stands in their cases for a while.
I have a number of basses on Hercules wall hangers that have a captive neck system, so I’m not worried about them falling to the floor. However, with enough seismic movement they could swing pretty hard into each other or the wall. So while in the hangers I put a guitar (not bass) gig bag on each one that should protect it from hard bumps and unplanned collisions, plus it keeps the dust and sun off most of the bass…
Hopefully none of us experience this…
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Every bass is ground level and the 64 is only ever out of its case when I am playing it. Just for days like today.
Yes. Below is one that came in the new Ashdown. I sold it and another tube in the classifieds.
My understanding is Ruby defines HG as: “High Grade”
“Hand-selected, low-noise, low-microphonics tubes for use in sensitive input stages.” (Some seem to think it means “high gain,” but this does not seem to be the case from what I can tell.)
That means they’re screened for quality and each tube is tested and selected based on:
-Noise and microphonics
-Section balance (both triodes closely matched)
-Consistency under vibration
In other words they are extra good JJ tubes you might say.
May I respectfully suggest NOT DOING THAT?
Now you tell me.... Where were you.... (Clearly only the title of the song it relevant here.)
