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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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Less high end. Lows snd low mids for days, with just enough above that for slap & pop to work well. No crackle.
Copy on the office shelf.
Listened to the casette version decades ago.
- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
is that a modified Bicen?One of many, Friday's IV
On my credenza since the 80s.
You guys and your tone fascination & flats!
Just buy a set of nickel rounds and turn the tone down. Instant flats!
you got ballz.....You guys and your tone fascination & flats!
Just buy a set of nickel rounds and turn the tone down. Instant flats!
- Jun 30, 2010
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golden slumbers...
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- Jun 30, 2010
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I have to agree with you, primarily with rounds like the D'Addario's I use. You can cop a "close enough for Jazz" 'flats sound' using nickel rounds before you could ever cop a chimey/grindy/angry piano 'rounds-sound' using flats. Now if you are playing a concert-style gig with mega volume from your over-the-top amps/cabs and goosed FOH... any strings will sound... loud. (aka.., not for nuanced/subtle music)You guys and your tone fascination & flats!
Just buy a set of nickel rounds and turn the tone down. Instant flats!
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If I can’t have 810’s, I’ll take 2.
Might not be an HT322.
But it is 210’s and 112.
Stopped into Goodwill and they had this little 210 AV for 70 bucks.
Works perfectly and blends just right with the 112.
I don’t even dare try and run the sub with these 2 cabs.
Plenty of umph as is.
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Nope, modified Orville. The overlooked best starting place for Thunderbird fun. This one should get stripped, have the bridge rout filled along with the middle knob hole, thus becoming a II, Burgandy Mist, anyone?
mona napping
not to underestimate the feel of flats...yes one can EQ away but one cannot change the tactile sensation.....
- Jun 30, 2010
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Sleeping critters are so damn cute! I love hearing Mona snore!
Granted - I use both (flats & rounds) specifically for what they both bring to the table - but... I do not have bright clang-y rounds on any of my basses. I appreciate that sound in certain genre's of music - but that's not the music I play or wish to emulate. And trust me, by our Mike's (and others) neck-pu/phat bass only standards - my sound is pretty mid-centric comparably. In fact, I'd have to say the sound I want to hear is usually achieved by a more MM Stingray single pu position. (like my Teiscobird) But.., I also like a 2-pu bass to add enough N-pu to fatten the mid-centric tone. We all spend our whole lives honing a tone that speaks to us right? (and we are all individuals with different versions of that)
Unleash the sound that defines you, whatever it is and however you get there.
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