Thunderbird Club

[theFixer]

i'm sorry?

Sorry man... bad cuppa joe...

 

[RedVee]

It amuses me to no end that when Canada went metric in the 70s, it was decided that a Canadian football field would be changed from 100 yards to 100 metres. The Canadian football league then also decided to continue to measure in yards, so the field is 110 yards long with a 55 yard line in the center.

I remember the change doing high school athletics. 100 y to 100 m but for a while there were random sightings of 110 y races. I didn't like them.

 

[ubernator]

Sick bird sighting on my Facebook feed.

Perry Giordano of Agent Orange. I complimented it, and he informed me it is a 2007 limited run zebrawood.

 

[Count Bassie]

So then what's a tad?

A Tad is a unit of subjectivity, relevant to the relative weight of import of the moment, as compared to when one is not engaged with that particular context. See "Skosh", "Smidgeon" (thanks Kat).

 

[PillO]

So then what's a tad?

A tad more than a smidgeon.

I thought Tad was the name of an American frat boy.

Oh, an iota?

Iota is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

 

[Count Bassie]

I thought Tad was the name of an American frat boy.

Brad. You meant Brad.

 

[Gaolee]

The staff probably had a little sit down with @TBird1958, they explained that they're to afraid to come here and mod.

They should embrace coming in here. People who wander in find out truth, reality, and how to make a bass sound like it should.

 

[PillO]

Brad. You meant Brad.

There is a bunch of them - Tad, Brad, Trey

 

[PillO]

They should embrace coming in here. People who wander in find out truth, reality, and how to make a bass sound like it should.

People should exercise, have regular check-ups, change their oil regularly... Lots of people don't do the things that they should.

 

[JJR58]

Photo please ... then prepare thyself for the ritual with the wet lettuce and the tightly furled umbrella.

Furled umbrella, have to write that one down. That's new to the list of devices used for our rituals, at least as far as I know.

 

[Gaolee]

@Cardinal Fang -- there's absolutely nothing stopping you from adding a tone pot to your Bird should you want one, however a Thunderbird is such a full range sounding bass (not muddy) it's unlikely you'd ever use it. Perhaps on a brighter, thinner sounding bass with less bottom end you might need something to tame the gank.

With the amp turned up a bit, both my single pickup Birds can go from warm to snarly big-angry-piano™ just by varying the attack. They don't really do 'thumpy' -- for that you should try an Epi EB3L 'SG' or one of the Jack Casady basses.

Birds

• kat888
• Aug 25, 2017
• thunderbird bass

Birds

I can get fairly thumpy out of the 2015 by rolling off the tone, keeping the neck at about 9 and the bridge at about 2. Neck full humbucker mode and bridge tapped. That gets about as close to thumpy as possible with a 'Bird. It's not P with dead flats thumpy, but then the strings aren't dead flats. They are HiBeams, which are non-thumpy. Point being, don't sell a 'Bird short. They can do a whole lot more than they get credit for.

For what it's worth, I played a show in front of a room full of dancing lawyers on Thursday night. (A few were complete distractions, but I digress.) The 2015 needed a bit of midrange boost and bass cut to dial out boom problems in the room. There's recording sound and then there's useful sound out in the wild. Playing in the wild is where the versatility really comes into its own. I haven't made it to an exalted state where I can rely on a real sound man very often. So, that means wandering around the room with the wireless and listening to what the bass does. It's sometimes pretty tough to find a good compromise between stage volume and room volume. It sure is fun, though.

 

[Gaolee]

... well. Does the US system include units such as the rod, perch and chain?

Only after too many pints.

 

[Gaolee]

Less than, unless US yards are different

Only in Texas. Everything's big in Texas. I'm in Texas at the moment. And, I'm bigger. That's just how it works.

 

[Count Bassie]

Someone mentioned a Seymor Duncan T-Bird p'up a tad back...

 

[GBassNorth]

Someone mentioned a Seymor Duncan T-Bird p'up a tad back...

I'm not aware of a stock Seymour Duncan drop in replacement for a TBird pickup. They do make custom pups. I'd assume a custom would cost a skosh more, in which case it might be worth it. But if it's Boo-Coo bucks more then probably not worth it.

 

[kat888]

A Tad is a unit of subjectivity, relevant to the relative weight of import of the moment, as compared to when one is not engaged with that particular context. See "Skosh", "Smidgeon" (thanks Kat).

It’s ‘smidgen’ too, no idea why I spelled it like ‘pigeon’.

 

[JJR58]

Someone mentioned a Seymor Duncan T-Bird p'up a tad back...

Ubenator and myself. Related to a Bird for sale on Reverb with Duncan's.

 

[JJR58]

I'm not aware of a stock Seymour Duncan drop in replacement for a TBird pickup, but for a skosh more money I'd bet they would do a custom pup.

They do, from the custom shop if I'm not mistaken.

 

[Zoobiedood]

They do, from the custom shop if I'm not mistaken.

Yes, it is just called the Thunderbird bass pickup. You have your choice of neck or bridge, and they are single conductor Alnico V, with wax potting.

 

[JJR58]

Now back out to NJ, but stopping at the shop first to have, what I hope is only a bad pot replaced. May have them do a mod or two. I'll see how far I want to go and what it will cost.