Thunderbird Club

[dukeorock]

My bow is a cheap plastic one. If anybody will rehair it, I would be surprised. It is holding up pretty well, considering that I have been abusing it for about four years now. Messing with the bow was a whim at first, but it was one of the best things I ever did for intonation and left hand technique.

It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to get better at, but never have

 

[BklynKen]

I put the fDeck back on my pedalboard last night. It doesn't fit very well with the big ass EXH deluxe bass muff. The EXH pedal is the size of a bus. It will go somewhere else, and I'll put a smaller fuzz pedal in its place. I had way too much fun with the fuzz recently to pull it off. There hasn't been an opportunity to use fuzz with the upright recently. That's the next experiment in messy sound - fuzz bow. It might be great. It might be just flat awful. Not knowing until you try it is half the fun.

I think your stage name for the band should be Fuzz Bow.

 

[dukeorock]

I think your stage name for the band should be Fuzz Bow.

I just assumed it was

 

[Larry V]

My bow is a cheap plastic one. If anybody will rehair it, I would be surprised. It is holding up pretty well, considering that I have been abusing it for about four years now. Messing with the bow was a whim at first, but it was one of the best things I ever did for intonation and left hand technique.

Do you have any music recorded where you’re using your bow? I’m really interested in hearing how that sounds in a non classical setting.

 

[Gaolee]

Do you have any music recorded where you’re using your bow? I’m really interested in hearing how that sounds For in a non classical setting.

Not that I can think of right now. It's funny how audiences react to it, though. People who watch bar bands aren't used to seeing an upright, let alone a bowed upright. All the jokes about bass players having no groupies disappear when you whip out the bow. The groupies you attract might not be the ones you want, but you gotta start somewhere.

 

[Gaolee]

It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to get better at, but never have

That's a good description of nearly everything I do. When you wander off in too many directions, you are can achieve lousiness many, many times over.

 

[Gaolee]

I think your stage name for the band should be Fuzz Bow.

That's one for Kat to add to the list.

 

[dukeorock]

That's a good description of nearly everything I do. When you wander off in too many directions, you are can achieve lousiness many, many times over.

You just described my career

 

[kat888]

MC Escher meets speaker design. I'm going to have to speak with my wife about where we put a pair of those. No self-respecting house should be without. She may disagree, but facts are facts.

Those are Yamamura Churchill speakers. Frighteningly esoteric and almost certainly cost telephone numbers. This review suggests they lack deep bass(!)

yamamura

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

Those are Yamamura Churchill speakers. Frighteningly esoteric and almost certainly cost telephone numbers. This review suggests they lack deep bass(!)

yamamura

Solid copper!!
The material cost alone would be astronomical!

 

[kat888]

Haha! Clean is definitely overrated. I take it on a gig to gig basis. I play regularly in about 6 bands at the moment. Some are doubling gigs, so the upright and electric have to sound right. Those wouldn’t be good gigs for the Traynor. There are a few gigs where I’d like to have more cabs out for sure. Still working on these 212 prototypes, but a 218 rig with some mid drivers would be really cool. The Faital 18” I use in my 1822’s is just such a great sounding speaker. Muscular and punchy, but nice articulation

A pair of 8Ω 212s is what you need ... let's call it a 'stack'.

 

[Gaolee]

You just described my career

Dayum! My respect for you just went through the roof!

 

[kat888]

That's one for Kat to add to the list.

Ha! Already done.

 

[Gaolee]

Those are Yamamura Churchill speakers. Frighteningly esoteric and almost certainly cost telephone numbers. This review suggests they lack deep bass(!)

yamamura

You don't acquire anything like that for it's sound. You place those in your collection for the looks and bragging rights when Sir Lawton Smythe-Wallerford's maid comes over for a cup of Grey Poupon.

 

[Gaolee]

Ha! Already done.

Good thing you are on it. I'll never remember any of those.

 

[kat888]

You don't acquire anything like that for it's sound. You place those in your collection for the looks and bragging rights when Sir Lawton Smythe-Wallerford's maid comes over for a cup of Grey Poupon.

The other things is that people who have those sorts of setups 1. usually have terrible taste in music 2. need special (terrible) records to appreciate them.

 

[Gaolee]

True. And the rest of us don't much care what Sir Lawton Smythe-Wallerford thinks one way or another. We buy sh!t. We do not acquire pieces.

 

[kat888]

True. And the rest of us don't much care what Sir Lawton Smythe-Wallerford thinks one way or another.

...or even his maid.

 

[Gaolee]

Well, now that depends.






ehem

 

[StraffordMike]

A 371 through two 301 cabinets? That's one way to be heard.

I believe he had a line on the 8x10 MK II.