Thunderbird Club

[Count Bassie]

Not all of us men are all that difficult to play music with.

Hmm...

 

[Count Bassie]

I can't show this pic to my drummer - his dream kit would be blue sparkle...

Cool piece.

 

[GonePlaid]

View attachment 3358512 Happy St Patty’s Day, Bird Lovers!!

Beverage of choice:

 

[JIO]

Wow, I love that bass so much. I don't remember seeing it before. Thanks for the later explanation. I did also always love the regular Kubicki body style.

Thanks Ken - at one time I only owned one bass, my '64 II. I started playing live after moving to SF in '90 and wanted a bass I didn't have to worry about in the trenches. I found a very used Ex-Factor ($700 w/HSC!) and loved everything about it. As headless basses were out-of-fashion by the mid 90's, I bought a couple more Factors for around the same price over the years. The Factorbird was the marriage of the two basses I loved. I don't own a Kubicki now, they were sold at times when rent was more important. But I will never sell the Factorbird and have the 9v Fender/Kubicki pre in my Saudersbird so the "Factor-force" is still with me.

 

[bylar13]

One question, one comment...


Windmills?


Don't believe you. Pics or it didn't happen.

No & No!

 

[bylar13]

Jimmy, you've played one with the strap pin at the neck heel? When I first got my Gibson, I was surprised that the way it hangs actually pulled the neck in towards me, requiring less of a reach for the first fret compared to my Carvin, by about two frets.


Wow, I love that bass so much. I don't remember seeing it before. Thanks for the later explanation. I did also always love the regular Kubicki body style.


That would've been interested, but this was about 10 years after Smith's time in the band! Imagine Smith doing double duty on that tour.


Wow, that's so excellent that you guys play together, and she on a Les Paul! No bloodshed I hope?


Where's What?

No bloodshed! Success!

 

[GBassNorth]

@GBassNorth Hope you're ok man. The only bad news we wanna hear is the Jizzmaster showed up and not the Bird.
I think even the trombone would be ok.

Thanks to everyone for all the well wishes! I'm fine, in relatively good shape and just dealing with high blood pressure, which seems to be kept in check with meds. Maxed out the stress test treadmill and never even broke a sweat. I do a 5k walk every day except when I'm golfing (but I probably put in the same excercise chasing my errant drives LOL).

Anyway, looks like the bird/guitar won't be here until Monday now.

 

[JJR58]

Thanks to everyone for all the well wishes! I'm fine, in relatively good shape and just dealing with high blood pressure, which seems to be kept in check with meds. Maxed out the stress test treadmill and never even broke a sweat. I do a 5k walk every day except when I'm golfing (but I probably put in the same excercise chasing my errant drives LOL).

Anyway, looks like the bird/guitar won't be here until Monday now.

That's all good to hear except for the hold up on the bird/guitar. Any news on why?

 

[GonePlaid]

That's all good to hear except for the hold up on the bird/guitar. Any news on why?

1)Agreed. 2) 'cos they can.

 

[TBird1958]

Some Green things, because I can.

 

[RedVee]

Slightly embarrassed* but I recognised Eric Singer immediately.


* not embarrassed at all really. Loved Kiss as a youngun. Well the first 5 or 6 albums anyway. They lost me for a couple of decades afterwards.

 

[fasterpussycat]

through a cab with mixed drivers (oh the horror).

My 1510 sounds fantastic with my PF350. It makes me happy because:
3. The heads of the mixed driver police would explode.

Hold on a minute. Even without looking inside the Traynor cabs, I'd expect there to be some sort of passive crossover, as there is in a home hifi speaker, dividing the signal into different ranges tailored to the frequency response and power handling of the various drivers. That's entirely different to pushing a full bandwidth signal through a bunch of different drivers and expecting a good result.

 

[Engle]

Hold on a minute. Even without looking inside the Traynor cabs, I'd expect there to be some sort of passive crossover, as there is in a home hifi speaker, dividing the signal into different ranges tailored to the frequency response and power handling of the various drivers. That's entirely different to pushing a full bandwidth signal through a bunch of different drivers and expecting a good result.

For sure. They have designed it to work, which is different than random cabs.

 

[PillO]

Hold on a minute. Even without looking inside the Traynor cabs, I'd expect there to be some sort of passive crossover, as there is in a home hifi speaker, dividing the signal into different ranges tailored to the frequency response and power handling of the various drivers. That's entirely different to pushing a full bandwidth signal through a bunch of different drivers and expecting a good result.

For sure. They have designed it to work, which is different than random cabs.

Specs/Schematics show no x-over except for the horn. However, as I recall, it is not all one big box; it is effectively two stacked cabinets, so each is tuned to work with the other.

Edit - still will make heads explode.

 

[JJR58]

Specs/Schematics show no x-over except for the horn. However, as I recall, it is not all one big box; it is effectively two stacked cabinets, so each is tuned to work with the other.

Edit - still will make heads explode.

I good cabinet maker with the proper design can get good results with mixed drivers in one box.
Hence your Traynor, and my Berg.

 

[GBassNorth]

That's all good to hear except for the hold up on the bird/guitar. Any news on why?

Probably just to build suspense.

1)Agreed. 2) 'cos they can.

Big brown strikes again. Much prefer FexEx.

I good cabinet maker with the proper design can get good results with mixed drivers in one box.
Hence your Traynor, and my Berg.

Amen on the Berg.

 

[GBassNorth]

Some Green things, because I can.

I think my Spector has a wee bit of the Irish in him...

...Éirinn go Brách!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Specs/Schematics show no x-over except for the horn. However, as I recall, it is not all one big box; it is effectively two stacked cabinets, so each is tuned to work with the other.

Edit - still will make heads explode.

prolly set up for biamping?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I think my Spector has a wee bit of the Irish in him...
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...Éirinn go Brách!

sorry Guys....all I could find......

 

[dukeorock]

I good cabinet maker with the proper design can get good results with mixed drivers in one box.
Hence your Traynor, and my Berg.

Basically, all my cabs are ‘mixed driver’ cabs. No ones ‘head will fly off’ at the thought of it. If some folks here find it amusing to act as though a designed system is the same thing as randomly selecting different cab pairings or doing the DIY shoving various drivers with no knowledge of how this stuff actually works, I won’t be arguing the point.