Never understood how a two pickup bass could be a one-trick-pony??
Nice work on those songs too!!
Nice work on those songs too!!
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Thunderbird Club
- Thread starter TBird1958
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- Mar 13, 2008
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- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
Liam was *gutted* about that too, if you guys have any suggestions I'm certainly open.
What the Spector guys have been doing is doing the "In with pics" posts every 1000 posts. Allows us to keep seeing everyone's awesome basses.
- Mar 13, 2008
- 18,894
- 142,211
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups, The Bass Shop, Seattle WA.
What the Spector guys have been doing is doing the "In with pics" posts every 1000 posts. Allows us to keep seeing everyone's awesome basses.
Works for me, I love seeing everybody's Thunderbirds!
I'll have to try to take some new pics this Summer, the Subaru is all cleaned up
I'll take some pics once i get my heavy gauge strings on it. Took the old ones off and strung my "precision bass build" with them. Needless to say, i'm going to be one happy bassist xD!!!
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
What the Spector guys have been doing is doing the "In with pics" posts every 1000 posts. Allows us to keep seeing everyone's awesome basses.
"In with pics"..?
Do you mean, we should all post pictures of all our basses for every 1000 posts?
Works for me, I love seeing everybody's Thunderbirds!
I'll have to try to take some new pics this Summer, the Subaru is all cleaned up
Subaru, huh? Speaking of Subarus...I'm waiting on a new rear window for my 98 legacy. Shattered it the other day closing the hatch on my 4x10 cab.
Exactly.
Subaru, huh? Speaking of Subarus...I'm waiting on a new rear window for my 98 legacy. Shattered it the other day closing the hatch on my 4x10 cab.
But how's the cab?!?
Seriously, sorry to hear about the window.
The cab's fine. Honestly, I'm perplexed as to how it even made contact. The cab was 2" away from the window!
The window's currently covered in plastic & a new one is on order. Should get here wed or thurs.
Question for you guys. I took my T-bird to my jam & played it through my PF-500 w/ 410HLF.
While my other basses are clear & defined, my T-bird sounds boomy...like a P-bass with the tone rolled off...and this is with all the knobs on full. To clean it up, I have to roll off the neck volume to about 6 or 7. Is this normal?
While my other basses are clear & defined, my T-bird sounds boomy...like a P-bass with the tone rolled off...and this is with all the knobs on full. To clean it up, I have to roll off the neck volume to about 6 or 7. Is this normal?
Maybe you just need to set the EQ on the amp. I tried one in store and it sounded fine through the amp i was using (ampeg stack svt.) as boomy as it may have been, it was still very clear and defined.
By default, I play with my bass rolled off, my mids turned up, the mid freq selector set to 5, and the treble turned up.
hillerup
There are basses, and there are Thunderbirds!
Hopefully I'll get a special dispensation as this bass isn't a Thunderbird. Built by John Diggens of Jaydee Guitars it is a exact replica of Jim Lea's John Birch bass. John Diggens built the original while working at Birch in the '70s. John Diggens got Jimmy to put his bass up as a pattern. It seems Jimmy a know recluse these days was pretty chuffed that someone in the USA was paying attention. Online UK friends Ian Edmonson and Stu Rutter gave me invaluable information and history about Jimmy's bass, Stu even sent off a 70's Birch bridge and other bits to JD help with the project. The bass features 70's John Birch pickups kindly supplied by Diggen's, built in distortion circuit, the volume knob for the distortion circuit is from Jim's bass and is signed by Jimmy. It was a thrill of a life time to get this bass made. I'm a Slade fanatic I suppose I also have one of their Hiwatt DR201s and Jimmy's flight case.
I know this is a bit late in the conversation and completely off-topic, but I think these old pictures of Slade performing in Denmark in 1978 would be of special interest to Scott and Mark:
