Thunderbird Club

[bylar13]

So this is close enough for me to get:

For Sale - Acoustic 371 Rig!

Deal or No Deal? (I don't have $550 laying around...)

 

[StraffordMike]

So this is close enough for me to get:

For Sale - Acoustic 371 Rig!

Deal or No Deal? (I don't have $550 laying around...)

I don't know if it's a deal or not but I'm digging the one in our rehearsal space. Super loud and with my Classic Pro some really nice dirt.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

So this is close enough for me to get:

For Sale - Acoustic 371 Rig!

Deal or No Deal? (I don't have $550 laying around...)

Fantastic deal!

 

[kat888]

Clean is over rated. True story, this has happened to me on more than one occasion at sound check. Soundman says " that's great now let me hear your clean signal", me "that is my clean signal"

Yep, exactly. What is this 'dirty tone' and 'clean tone' whereof you speak, oh most esteemed sound person? I simply have 'my tone'.

 

[Gaolee]

So this is close enough for me to get:

For Sale - Acoustic 371 Rig!

Deal or No Deal? (I don't have $550 laying around...)

I think it's a very good price if it works as it should. They can be spectacularly loud, but if you use the bright switch and don't crank them up, they are also really good at reasonable volumes. Reasonable being a relative term. The little Carvin rig was somewhere else a while ago, I don't remember why. We had a rehearsal in the music room, so I plugged into the original 360. It reminded me why I like it so much. The sound from that amp is just this big, warm, blossom.

 

[Gaolee]

Yep, exactly. What is this 'dirty tone' and 'clean tone' whereof you speak, oh most esteemed sound person? I simply have 'my tone'.

I have an archtop that needs a neck reset. It's my favorite guitar for the time being, partly because when the bridge is down low enough to get a really good low action, the tail is right where it can rattle on the top of the guitar just a little. It's an acoustic guitar, but the quirk of it's tail on the top, it sounds distorted.

 

[Dr_Feelgoood212]

I think it's a very good price if it works as it should. They can be spectacularly loud, but if you use the bright switch and don't crank them up, they are also really good at reasonable volumes. Reasonable being a relative term. The little Carvin rig was somewhere else a while ago, I don't remember why. We had a rehearsal in the music room, so I plugged into the original 360. It reminded me why I like it so much. The sound from that amp is just this big, warm, blossom.

My 371 is currently my bedroom rig.

 

[Gaolee]

My 371 is currently my bedroom rig.

I understand how that works. The reason I let the 320/408 stack go was that it was my practice rig. It was next to impossible for me to avoid having just a little too much fun with it. That and I got some kind of special edition 4003 in trade. The 4003 fetched enough to buy a 'Bird and have about half again more cash left over.

So, that gives an idea of what the top end price for an Acoustic Control stack goes for. A 360 is even more out of control when it comes to price. I think the prices are nuts, but what do I know.

 

[dukeorock]

Yep, exactly. What is this 'dirty tone' and 'clean tone' whereof you speak, oh most esteemed sound person? I simply have 'my tone'.

Play live with a half dozen or more different artist with wildly different styles, on electric and upright. Ones definition of ‘my tone’ can become a bit more elastic

 

[JJR58]

My 371 is currently my bedroom rig.

YES!!!!

 

[kat888]

Play live with a half dozen or more different artist with wildly different styles, on electric and upright. Ones definition of ‘my tone’ can become a bit more elastic

It's still your tone, even if (out of necessity) it differs from gig to gig, eg your DH tone, your EB tone, your PF tone. I assume once you set up and plug in, it's pretty much set and forget?

 

[BklynKen]

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.

So you're not recommending I get a set of these? Maybe if I get a polyester leisure suit to go along with them? And a case of Grey Poupon?

 

[Gaolee]

So you're not recommending I get a set of these? Maybe if I get a polyester leisure suit to go along with them? And a case of Grey Poupon?

You need a tux, silk ascot, and butler to have those.

 

[BklynKen]

You need a tux, silk ascot, and butler to have those.

Polyester tux?

 

[Gaolee]

It's still your tone, even if (out of necessity) it differs from gig to gig, eg your DH tone, your EB tone, your PF tone. I assume once you set up and plug in, it's pretty much set and forget?

There's always some little fiddling around. Beats me why, but even the same room, with the same equipment sounds a little different from night to night. Which means adjusting. Plus there's the different instruments that I plug in. They are all different and should sound different. More fiddling around. Once it's dialed in, then the only thing that changes is making sure I'm in tune or kicking in whatever minimal effects I might use. Usually none. But lately a bit of fuzz here and there.

 

[kat888]

So you're not recommending I get a set of these? Maybe if I get a polyester leisure suit to go along with them? And a case of Grey Poupon?

Why do Americans got a thing about mustard? We buy Maille, it's from Dijon. It's sold on the shelf in our local supermarkets ... all three of them. It's not posh at all. We also occasionally have Thomy (German) and wouldn't be keeping our end up if we didn't have Colmans English mustard in the house.

 

[dukeorock]

It's still your tone, even if (out of necessity) it differs from gig to gig, eg your DH tone, your EB tone, your PF tone. I assume once you set up and plug in, it's pretty much set and forget?

Pretty much, yes. The only problem I’ll occasionally have is a sound person who feels they have a signature bass sound. Then I have to figure out how to politely point out that I have no interest in their ideal bass sound. I want mine for better or worse. I’ve caught so many engineers trying to take out the ‘click’ sound on the upright because they don’t really like the slap upright sound. We will have words when that happens. I’ve also had them try to scoop my electric sound, which will get a negative response from me every time. I don’t want a smiley face, I want an Elvis face

 

[BklynKen]

Why do Americans got a thing about mustard? We buy Maille, it's from Dijon. It's sold on the shelf in our local supermarkets ... all three of them. It's not posh at all. We also occasionally have Thomy (German) and wouldn't be keeping our end up if we didn't have Colmans English mustard in the house.

Because of this.

 

[dukeorock]

Why do Americans got a thing about mustard? We buy Maille, it's from Dijon. It's sold on the shelf in our local supermarkets ... all three of them. It's not posh at all. We also occasionally have Thomy (German) and wouldn't be keeping our end up if we didn't have Colmans English mustard in the house.

I think it’s a reference to the old Grey Poupon tv ads they used to run here a lot. They were over the top, posh adverts

*Ken beat me to it!

 

[kat888]

There's always some little fiddling around. Beats me why, but even the same room, with the same equipment sounds a little different from night to night. Which means adjusting. Plus there's the different instruments that I plug in. They are all different and should sound different. More fiddling around. Once it's dialed in, then the only thing that changes is making sure I'm in tune or kicking in whatever minimal effects I might use. Usually none. But lately a bit of fuzz here and there.

Set and forget. We are bass players.