Ha! Remember Carol Burnett?I've always wondered how those serious actors did those lines-and how many takes were necessary.
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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- Jun 30, 2010
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Only kinda related to Gibson basses, but I'm bringing all three ('Bird, SG, and EB17) with me tonight for my Orange amp shootout where I'm going to figure out what will hopefully be my main bass and amp for my post-rock project.
The contenders are the Terror Bass (reissue), OB1 500, and the 4 Stroke 500. My gut tells me that I'm probably going to find the 4 Stroke as the winner, but that largely intersects with the bass I ultimately choose. I'm keeping all the basses, so it's not like I can't change my mind later, though I will be returning/selling at least one amp.
My hope is that the SG bass will win, as that one is the most fun for me to play, though my newfound love of 'Birds makes a convincing argument as well.
I think I have one of the best kinds of problems. Which awesome thing will I like the most? Hopefully I get to cycle through all the various combinations at practice tonight. My bandmates are going to hate me
The contenders are the Terror Bass (reissue), OB1 500, and the 4 Stroke 500. My gut tells me that I'm probably going to find the 4 Stroke as the winner, but that largely intersects with the bass I ultimately choose. I'm keeping all the basses, so it's not like I can't change my mind later, though I will be returning/selling at least one amp.
My hope is that the SG bass will win, as that one is the most fun for me to play, though my newfound love of 'Birds makes a convincing argument as well.
I think I have one of the best kinds of problems. Which awesome thing will I like the most? Hopefully I get to cycle through all the various combinations at practice tonight. My bandmates are going to hate me
Supertone bridge!!!!!!! Beautiful bass, sweet Ampeg head! Awesome cab. There’s a lot of love in that room!
How anyone could work with Tim Conway......Ha! Remember Carol Burnett?
Lol! Dorf does golf is one of my all time favorites. I’ll, never forget The Apple Dumpling Gang either, I got to see it in the theatre.How anyone could work with Tim Conway......
Don’t forget an egg sunny side up!
Woo Hoo!
I just scored tickets for Dream Theater in Toronto - front row balcony!
I just scored tickets for Dream Theater in Toronto - front row balcony!
grits while you're at it..
Only kinda related to Gibson basses, but I'm bringing all three ('Bird, SG, and EB17) with me tonight for my Orange amp shootout where I'm going to figure out what will hopefully be my main bass and amp for my post-rock project.
The contenders are the Terror Bass (reissue), OB1 500, and the 4 Stroke 500. My gut tells me that I'm probably going to find the 4 Stroke as the winner, but that largely intersects with the bass I ultimately choose. I'm keeping all the basses, so it's not like I can't change my mind later, though I will be returning/selling at least one amp.
My hope is that the SG bass will win, as that one is the most fun for me to play, though my newfound love of 'Birds makes a convincing argument as well.
I think I have one of the best kinds of problems. Which awesome thing will I like the most? Hopefully I get to cycle through all the various combinations at practice tonight. My bandmates are going to hate me
I use the OB-1 500 with a 3x12 Cabinet set-up. I have 2014 T-Bird with Lollar replacement pickups. It is a killer combination. When we gig, I have had other bands bass players contact me and ask if I will provide the bass rig for the show. Another liked it so much, she went and got her own Orange.
I dig the simplicity and the built-in dirty channel on the OB. Gives you a lot of options. Good luck!
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Oh, right! Yeah, I forgot to mention that the OB1 is definitely not going anywhere anytime soon, as I played with my stoner metal band over the weekend, and it was essentially perfect.
The question still remains if it's a good enough fit for my primary post-rock band. While it sounded a bit brighter than I normally like, I really didn't have much time at all to really dial anything in at the time, so I'm hoping that a "tone practice" as we call them will allow me to sort things out. Obviously, the OB1 would be the simplest solution, but I have a feeling that the 4 Stroke is going to win in this band. Don't really know anything yet, as it's all still pretty new to me.
Pulled the trigger on a Cataldo build... 16 weeks can't come soon enough
I remember you said you use the bridge pickup full on the TB. Have you tried having both full on - then back the bridge pickup back to the 80-90% range ?
Not yet. Normally I tend to back off the neck pup on any humbucker bass/guitar to get rid of some of the inherent low end that sometimes muddies things up for me. I tend to associate the bridge pup with higher frequencies, but fully admit that I'm fairly new to the TB ecosystem.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
'Birds are a little different. Surprise! The neck pickup is fairly close to the P sweet spot. It is a bucker, so it has the heft, but one of the best P sounds I have gotten is with the neck pickup at about 9 and the bridge rolled off. Then about 5 with tone. It is string dependent. 'Birds change character a bit with different strings. My usual sound is neck at about 9 and bridge at about 5. Then I roll the tone on and off to match how bright it should be. Where you play makes a big difference as well. I don't use a pick much at all, so there is a point of reference.
Lollar's Thunderbird pickups are. The. Best.
I'll take yer word for it. I'm kinda partial to the originals in my '67 Gibby'Bird(which is All original 'cept the pickguard).
Got back from my Gibson/Orange session. Good times! And yeah, playing around with the 'Bird, I found it was capable of all kinds of tones depending on where my V/V/T was set, the amp, and switching between pick and fingers. While I'm primarily a pick player, I can understand why fingerstyle players would call this a THUNDERbird. There's just so much mass in these basses that it becomes something you feel rather than hear. Sure, other basses are capable of doing this, but this bass seems like that's where its home lies.
Oh, and after a good session with both the basses and amps, I'm thinking that my post-rock project will probably use the SG bass and 4 Stroke, and the stoner metal band will be the TB and OB1. EB bass is for home practice and gigs. I really thought that I'd end up keeping the Terror Bass, but it lacks the versatility of the 4 Stroke, and I prefer the dirt of the OB1. But I know a lot of that comes down to the people I'm playing with as well, as their tone and playing complements what I'm looking for in a bass/amp more than just standing in room soloing different tones on my own.
