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Thunderbird Club
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godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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oh, didn't know that would be top posted. I was just responding to coments on the previous page that an NR bird is comparable in size to a fender style body. NR thunderbirds are long!
the guitar player on the right is trying to seduce me!View attachment 628617 Did someone say gigging Thunderbirds?
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
Yes they are! I have long gibbon like arms so it's not a problem for me.
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
No one was asserting that Gibson NR's weren't long. Leaving the lower body design the same and changing the top horn on Dark Horse's design to more resemble that of an NR would not increase the length one iota.
After longing to learn to play for a while I decided to go ahead and get an Epiphone TV silver Thunderbird for my very first bass guitar. For a very inexpensive instrument I have no complaints whatsoever after having it professionally setup with new strings. The only problem I have is people assume I am a good bass player since I have such a nice looking bass, haha.
I have also experienced that problem. It doesn't take me too long to straighten them out.
I'm taking the Silverbird for it's maiden voyage tomorrow night. And since my wife has buried my other Goth Bird somewhere in the guest bedroom, I'll be taking the Sunburst T-Bird along instead. Can't wait to hear the Birds through my new Veyron amp. Hoping there will be someone there taking some pictures.
So, I'm second guessing myself on getting emgs for my gothic mod... Has anyone shielded the stock goth pickups and in return gotten no hum?
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
I forgot to add, I also would not have any second thoughts about putting EMGs in a T-bird. I lurve me some EMGs
I like emgs but I'm not prepared to drop 200$ into pickups.. And that's weird mine hummed like crazy
electronics - Guitar produces hum due to poor soldering - Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange
From the link:
"Hum is produced in a couple of ways, and can indeed be related to a cold solder joint. If the hum goes away when you touch the grounding jacket of your guitar cable or a pickup case, then a cold solder joint or incomplete grounding is likely the problem.
To fix this, you are going to need to localize the issue by identifying the cold joint. One way you can do this is to employ a small alligator jumper and use it to bridge connections at the bare wire to the grounding lug on your output jack. Using this method, here's how I would find the cold joint:
First and foremost visually verify that everything is indeed grounded, and make sure that every component has a single path to ground. This includes pickups and potentiometers. One problem I often see on guitars with DIY wiring jobs is that the users often accidentally create a ground loop--which can create hum or even mute the guitar entirely--or they miss a component and wind up with incomplete grounding.
Once you have verified that the ground wiring is conceptually correct, using your alligator clip systematically connect the bare wire before each solder joint in the ground path of your wiring directly to the ground lug on your guitar's output jack. Pay special attention to joints soldered on the back assembly of volume and tone potentiometers--most ground leads converge there because it's an easy place to make a connection of two or more wires. It could be very different in your application however--especially since you rewired everything by yourself.
I usually test each joint with the guitar plugged in to a cheap-o practice amp at the lowest possible volume levels, that way I can listen for the hum and dynamically troubleshoot the problem. If you hear the hum go away after connection, then the lug associated to the bare wire you are testing likely has a cold solder joint. You can also look at the joint and tell if it's soldered correctly. A good joint should be clean and shiny, not dull, grey, or globular.
Another less interactive but more scientific way of fixing the problem is to fire up a voltmeter/multimeter. Most decent models have a mode that will measure if the two points you are touching are connected (a diode test). You can use this instead of an alligator clip and achieve the same results, but instead of audibly verifying that the hum has gone away at each connection you can scientifically prove that something is likely wrong with the path to ground between the two points you are measuring. It works (especially for assembling patch cables
), but I prefer instant gratification when I'm hum busting.If you make it through every joint in the ground path and still can't kill the hum then I'd drop by a guitar tech and get them to give it a look see."
Finally got caught up this morning. Been crazy bussy with work, family, practicing and my lessons. Oh and the Blackhawks games. Hope they hirry up and winn the first four so I can get just a little more time...
