Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

Well... you just had it done today... and here you are telling us about it today... so... I guess it coulda been worse

There are so many interesting ways it could be worse. The surgeon I have is very skilled.

As an aside, surgery is one of those things that you just shouldn't buy on price (although not in Canada, as it is one of only 3 countries in which it is illegal to buy healthcare).

 

[JJR58]

Darkglass Alpha-Omega (or Omicron).

Been eyeing that as well.

 

[theFixer]

The Traynor is rarely seen in these parts. Would love to hear one as well.

+1

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Put it up to full power and Jeff can audition it from Queens!

I was going to be plugging it in soon, the coyotes are howlin' and they need to be taught a lesson

Darkglass Alpha-Omega (or Omicron).

I was gonna suggest a Darkglass pedal. I've used quite a few different dirt pedals, most of them have a bit too much fuzz/drive for the hybrids (tube pre's) and tube amps, but my B7K Ultra adds just enough push to keep it tube like. And the full out face melting overdrive on it is still a LOT smoother than all the pedals I've tried and used.

 

[JJR58]

Nice thing about the Mesa Strategy, even the Prodigy, you can run it at "low power" which is roughly 125W so you can drive it quite a bit without demolishing a city block.

So expensive though, but i love Mesa gear, had the M6, M9. A Titan V12 would be interesting.

 

[JJR58]

I was going to be plugging it in soon, the coyotes are howlin' and they need to be taught a lesson


I was gonna suggest a Darkglass pedal. I've used quite a few different dirt pedals, most of them have a bit too much fuzz/drive for the hybrids (tube pre's) and tube amps, but my B7K Ultra adds just enough push to keep it tube like. And the full out face melting overdrive on it is still a LOT smoother than all the pedals I've tried and used.

I had the B7K. maybe user error on my part, but i couldn't get on with it.
Although, the Ultra has some cool frequency switching options that the original doesn't have.

 

[BklynKen]

I was going to be plugging it in soon, the coyotes are howlin' and they need to be taught a lesson


I was gonna suggest a Darkglass pedal. I've used quite a few different dirt pedals, most of them have a bit too much fuzz/drive for the hybrids (tube pre's) and tube amps, but my B7K Ultra adds just enough push to keep it tube like. And the full out face melting overdrive on it is still a LOT smoother than all the pedals I've tried and used.

My AO feels much nicer with the Thunderbird than my B3K.

 

[PillO]

The Traynor is rarely seen in these parts. Would love to hear one as well.

Really? They are made in Ontario (Peterborough if memory serves), so they are locally made. Closer than Mesa Boogie for you...

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

My AO feels much nicer with the Thunderbird than my B3K.

I wanted a AO but I couldn't say no to the price I paid for my new B7K Ultra, it was the same price as a used one, and at the time AO's weren't popular on the used market. The B7K Ultra is worlds apart from the B3K though.

 

[JJR58]

Really? They are made in Ontario (Peterborough if memory serves), so they are locally made. Closer than Mesa Boogie for you...

I know, but i think there is only one dealer here in NYC, going to have to research this.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Really? They are made in Ontario (Peterborough if memory serves), so they are locally made. Closer than Mesa Boogie for you...

Pickering, and they (Yorkville, the parent company) was founded in the "backroom" of a Long & McQuade store. So they're all tied together.

 

[PillO]

I was gonna suggest a Darkglass pedal. I've used quite a few different dirt pedals, most of them have a bit too much fuzz/drive for the hybrids (tube pre's) and tube amps, but my B7K Ultra adds just enough push to keep it tube like. And the full out face melting overdrive on it is still a LOT smoother than all the pedals I've tried and used.

I wonder if it is worth checking the Tech 21 products. The technical material I have read is encouraging. They have operationalized a number of ideas I had in highschool for using MOSFETs and JFETs to accomplish the character you get from tubes (what Kat would call valves). Then I decided my future was in health sciences rather than electrical engineering, so I didn't pursue those ideas.

 

[kat888]

Oh I agree 100%... but in Kat's case, a small outboard unit is the right tool for the job.

Well occasionally it's the right tool for the job. I have been practicing through the VTBDI/headphones to keep environmental noise down and also just to get used to it/work it out so I can drop a bass track on something for my mate in Toronto.

 

[JJR58]

I'm gonna have to mosey on over to Sam Ash and try the B7K Ultra, not sure they have the Omega in stock.
Who knows, it might wow me, maybe sell the SVP CL as much as i like it.

 

[JJR58]

I wonder if it is worth checking the Tech 21 products. The technical material I have read is encouraging. They have operationalized a number of ideas I had in highschool for using MOSFETs and JFETs to accomplish the character you get from tubes (what Kat would call valves). Then I decided my future was in health sciences rather than electrical engineering, so I didn't pursue those ideas.

Tech 21 gear is great, and they have two new things out i'd love to demo, that Geddy RPM and The Q Strip, two completely different pieces..................
Had an RPM, loved it, pretty transparent, great for clean tone shaping, gotta love the semi para eq on it.

 

[PillO]

Pickering, and they (Yorkville, the parent company) was founded in the "backroom" of a Long & McQuade store. So they're all tied together.

Pete Traynor was working in a backroom of L&M Yorkville (which is long gone) building and repairing amps. Long & McQuade (the guys, not the store) financed setting up Traynor. Yorkville came about as a result of L&M needing accessories and setting up a company out of the Yorkville store to produce them.

 

[PillO]

I know, but i think there is only one dealer here in NYC, going to have to research this.

Then it is boutique!

 

[JJR58]

Then it is boutique!

Ha!, More so then people realize.

 

[PillO]

Pickering, and they (Yorkville, the parent company) was founded in the "backroom" of a Long & McQuade store. So they're all tied together.

If memory serves, head office is Pickering because that is L&M headoffice who now own it. But I think production is still Peterborough.

 

[Dadagoboi]

IDK, i believe really good overdrive comes from an all tube amp.

And Big Iron.

Plenty of knobs, two completely different tone circuits, and 70 watts of power for less than the cost of two boutique whatchamajiggers.