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Thunderbird Club
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Well said. I'm glad you're really digging the ABM. We've all been there when what we bought turned out to be less than satisfactory.I'm so much happier with my tone and everything else that goes with playing a show using my 300W Ashdown. The GK's I used to have were 780 and 480 watts, way too much for any show we were going to play ( We always have FOH). An amp with that much power barely opened up just doesn't sound all that good and your sound crew will not like you or put you in the FOH mix if you're too loud, and being too loud is great way to get rid of your audience - people will simply leave your show if it's too loud. We played outside a bunch of times last year and will again this summer, you CAN turn your amp up under that circumstance, I got the Ashdown to almost halfway on the pier in Pt. Angeles, there were plenty of horses left if I had needed them.
There's no place I would be playing (even if I got a rock band together), that the ABM 300 wouldn't do the trick and do it well. Even my 300 is barely on. I really wish they currently made a 150, or 100w version as I would have bought one. Any would work for me. But the more I use the 300, the more I love it. If I began doing gigs again I would almost certainly use that and leave the heavy and clunky tube heads sitting. In fact, I know I would.
The is a great amp.
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I see your zero string backup bass over by the drums. Belated WBW?I'm so much happier with my tone and everything else that goes with playing a show using my 300W Ashdown. The GK's I used to have were 780 and 480 watts, way too much for any show we were going to play ( We always have FOH). An amp with that much power barely opened up just doesn't sound all that good and your sound crew will not like you or put you in the FOH mix if you're too loud, and being too loud is great way to get rid of your audience - people will simply leave your show if it's too loud. We played outside a bunch of times last year and will again this summer, you CAN turn your amp up under that circumstance, I got the Ashdown to almost halfway on the pier in Pt. Angeles, there were plenty of horses left if I had needed them.
It was definitely not that circuit. I'll dig around when I have a chance and see if I can find what I was thinking of, and if I remembered correctly.
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Chucky is currently repairing my 550 Spyder so I found the 330 on Reverb and bought it as a stand-in. When it arrived I realized it was NOS in its original boxes - it was a dealer model and was never turned on! Same tone as the 550 and plenty of watts for the gigs we play. The bass I recently made with the same specs as my Teiscobird, my mainstay TSC bass. The Teiscobird now has a brother -
don't think it's as much that as the PA systems those bass rigs were meant for are now obsolete...
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I see your zero string backup bass over by the drums. Belated WBW?
Solid nope.
Belonged to this girl.
No, the Thunderbirds can't come out and play...
Our mash up of All Along the Watchtower from last night. Think Hendrix/U2...this was our first take on this song.
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How are you recording this? Sounds good!
Interesting stutter guitar 3:14 - 3:30
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Nice. I like the lead work.
working on this for tonight....smooth, nifty bass line...
Thanks. All the instruments and vocals go straight into a digital mixer that sends the signal to a computer to store the individual audio tracks (.aif). Those files are then imported into MixPad for the final mixing (mostly volume balancing since we don't try to do that more than roughly at rehearsal) and then export to .mp3. I think the stuttering is just fast pick playing. I didn't notice any changes to his pedal board other than the occasional use of the Wah pedal.How are you recording this? Sounds good!
digging the timbre of the vocals...
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Always liked that song, did you (or anyone else here) know that 3 of the guys went on to be in a band called Starz.
From Wiki
- Genre Shift: Unlike the soft rock of Looking Glass, Starz was a hard rock/power pop band often compared to a mix of Aerosmith and KISS.
- Management: They were managed by Bill Aucoin (who also managed KISS) and signed to Capitol Records.
- Major Hits: Their most recognizable radio hit was 1977's "Cherry Baby".
- Legacy: Despite never reaching "superstar" status, they are cited as a major influence on 80s glam metal bands like Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Guns N' Roses.
Nobody knows it, but this a fun song from them, still good bass playing too.
