Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

My preference is the neck pickup at full volume, and the bridge at about half volume. Neck pickup only doesn't sound quite right to my ears. It may have something to do with the rest of the signal chain.

For what its worth, I played the EB last night. It's got the same DiCola pickups as the '15 Thunderbird, but it sounds quite different. It sustains forever in a way that none of my 'Birds do. That's neither good nor bad. I assume it's a reflection of the wood properties, because the Fenderbird sustains for a long time, too.

Back to pickups - fiddling with the EB settings led to the same basic setting. I guess we all have what we are listening for.

 

[GBassNorth]

IME and according to my taste, the bridge pup adds nothing, and may in fact take something away. There are others around here of the same mind.

Absolutely the case on electric guitars. Probably true to a lesser degree on basses. But if you're a purist, perfection is the goal. I suspect you have similar perfectionist preferences when it comes to making tea. And just looking at the Mods orderly shoe collection I'd guess he's like minded.

 

[GonePlaid]

My preference is the neck pickup at full volume, and the bridge at about half volume. Neck pickup only doesn't sound quite right to my ears. It may have something to do with the rest of the signal chain.

For what its worth, I played the EB last night. It's got the same DiCola pickups as the '15 Thunderbird, but it sounds quite different. It sustains forever in a way that none of my 'Birds do. That's neither good nor bad. I assume it's a reflection of the wood properties, because the Fenderbird sustains for a long time, too.

Back to pickups - fiddling with the EB settings led to the same basic setting. I guess we all have what we are listening for.

On both EB-3s I've had, the neck pup was against the neck(as is my Ibanez AGB200). Ps,Js,and TBirds it's back a few inches. It's very bottom-y against the neck-which is fine for what I do.

 

[GBassNorth]

I find truth to this as well. Might not totally apply to my other bass. But on a Thunderbird....
To me, what the bridge pup adds, (which i find very little, just me) is if you go beyond the sweet spot of blending the two, it's pointless having the bridge pup in there.

My preference is the neck pickup at full volume, and the bridge at about half volume. Neck pickup only doesn't sound quite right to my ears. It may have something to do with the rest of the signal chain.

For what its worth, I played the EB last night. It's got the same DiCola pickups as the '15 Thunderbird, but it sounds quite different. It sustains forever in a way that none of my 'Birds do. That's neither good nor bad. I assume it's a reflection of the wood properties, because the Fenderbird sustains for a long time, too.

Back to pickups - fiddling with the EB settings led to the same basic setting. I guess we all have what we are listening for.

More often than not I can get nearly everything I want out of just the neck pup. I really kind of use the bridge pup control as a tone or timbre knob and dial in just what's needed to fine tune the sound of the neck pup. I normally set the tone knob on about midway and don't mess with it much at all.

 

[D.M.N.]

NO GODS, NO BRIDGE PICKUPS

 

[Gaolee]

NO GODS, NO BRIDGE PICKUPS

Tell us how you really feel!

 

[theFixer]

NO GODS, NO BRIDGE PICKUPS

 

[GBassNorth]

NO GODS, NO BRIDGE PICKUPS

You mean like this...

 

[theFixer]

You mean like this...
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OOOooo… GBaaaass… goin' fer the gold with that swanky new avatar

 

[JJR58]

OOOooo… GBaaaass… goin' fer the gold with that swanky new avatar

It's Shameless!!!, and beautiful.

 

[GBassNorth]

OOOooo… GBaaaass… goin' fer the gold with that swanky new avatar

It's Shameless!!!, and beautiful.

I did it to torque up the GenPop clan on another thread.

 

[JJR58]

I did it to torque up the GenPop clan on another thread.

Oh, which one?

 

[GonePlaid]

You mean like this...
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I'd love to have heard THAT explanation.

 

[GBassNorth]

Oh, which one?

Why no love?

 

[hillerup]

I suspect an avalanche of addias shoes.

Love your new avatar!

 

[GBassNorth]

I'd love to have heard THAT explanation.

I suspect the story starts with something like this... "Hold muh beer, hey ya'll watch this..."

 

[GBassNorth]

Love your new avatar!

If I were only worthy of an ultra cool stage shot like yours my day would be complete. Thx

 

[TBird1958]

OOOooo… GBaaaass… goin' fer the gold with that swanky new avatar

OMG it's a two pick up bass!

I'm really happy to have some single pickup Thunderbirds, they're easy to use live and of course have their own tone going on, however I tend to lay my hand across the top of the bridge cover and play on top of the bridge pickup, so I tend to use them and like what they contribute to my tone. Certain 'Birds like '76s produce a lot more bass as part of what they do ( I eq them differently)and winding off the bridge pickup doesn't generate the same result as conventionally wired basses. Anywhooo, I'd love all your extra pickups, especially the originals from that rare as a White Rhino Orville

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

IME and according to my taste, the bridge pup adds nothing, and may in fact take something away. There are others around here of the same mind.[/

I Find the same thing. It's annoying having to adjust both volumes every time. Someone told me that wiring them (Birds) up like a jazz bass would solve this. How else would you wire a 2 pickup, vol, vol, tone configuration? I can't think of many other ways.

 

[JJR58]

I Find the same thing. It's annoying having to adjust both volumes every time. Someone told me that wiring them (Birds) up like a jazz bass would solve this. How else would you wire a 2 pickup, vol, vol, tone configuration? I can't think of many other ways.

No tone control.