Thunderbird Club

[Gaolee]

Hey, several-page-back reference here... when installing EB Cobalt Flats, do you just start with the whole string, i.e., no trimming first?

I cut strings about three or four finger widths past the peg after making a sharp bend back a little for where the cut will be. Stuff the end into the peg and tighten. Yank on it a bit and tighten again. Then play and check tuning a lot for however long it takes for tuning to stay stable. That is usually not long at all. All strings get the same treatment. Which plane of hell does this lead to?

 

[JJR58]

Hey, several-page-back reference here... when installing EB Cobalt Flats, do you just start with the whole string, i.e., no trimming first?

Trim to taste. Uh, ok.....

 

[Gaolee]

I can only get into nothing but trouble by saying this, but, handy little box.
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Do not leave home without one of those.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Yep.

thanks..
JIO 1-0 CS..

 

[GonePlaid]

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"Get this thing outta there so I can have the box!"

 

[fasterpussycat]

Do not leave home without one of those.

Or you can always go for the always on HPF only version for ~half the price.

https://www.broughtonaudio.com/product-page/always-on-high-pass-filter

 

[RedVee]

It's really great. Here's another one with great playing.

I’m bookmarking these suggestions
Thank you

 

[RedVee]

It’s like nobody works any more. What are they going to do, fire me?I've figured out that I need to check in the morning while I’m dosing on caffeine and waiting for my computer to connect and log in. Check again at lunchtime and in the evening while watching the ballgame. It’s the only way to keep up.

Ha! Guess what I’m doing at lunchtime (ie. right now) ?

 

[Count Bassie]

Or you can alwys go for the always on HP only version for ~half the price.

https://www.broughtonaudio.com/product-page/always-on-high-pass-filter

Thanks for posting!

 

[JJR58]

Ha! Guess what I’m doing at lunchtime (is right now) ?

That question is such a bad wager....

 

[Count Bassie]

I put the Cobalt Flats, 55-110, into the '80s MIJ Fender Pbass. I liked Black Beauties on the Epi Blackbird I used to have, so I'm going to try those again for the Classic 'Bird.
I think I do like those Cobalts though.

Oh, my brain is back.

 

[GonePlaid]

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Shore iz purdy.

 

[JJR58]

I put the Cobalt Flats, 55-110, into the '80s MIJ Fender Pbass. I liked Black Beauties on the Epi Blackbird I used to have, so I'm going to try those again for the Classic 'Bird.
I think I do like those Cobalts though.

Oh, my brain is back.

45-100.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

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Looks like a Thundercat to me.

 

[RedVee]

Huh. Thain was from NZ. Not surprising giving how clueless record company marketing was and still is clueless.

I knew of them, just never <knowingly> heard their stuff. I’m sure some will be familiar when I get to listen. Ok, cool but I’m not sure anyone would have made anything out of that (him being a Kiwi) back in the day. Unless he was a racehorse of course.

Gotta get in my TBT pic. Still that day here.

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It’s taken me all day to twig what TBT is... mind you I’m in the future also. Friday.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

THUNDERBIRD!

 

[GBassNorth]

Hey, several-page-back reference here... when installing EB Cobalt Flats, do you just start with the whole string, i.e., no trimming first?

Trim if you need to.

Ok I know this sounds incredibly dumb. Nevermind, been doing this rodeo since 1979. Head is like a flat tire is all.

Take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

I cut strings about three or four finger widths past the peg after making a sharp bend back a little for where the cut will be. Stuff the end into the peg and tighten. Yank on it a bit and tighten again. Then play and check tuning a lot for however long it takes for tuning to stay stable. That is usually not long at all. All strings get the same treatment. Which plane of hell does this lead to?

Yep - bend it, cut it, stuff it, wrap it, yank it, then play with it. Pretty much a day in the life if the average male. Oh, and the money quote - "That is usually not long at all" a thought that has run through many a partners mind.

 

[dukeorock]

I can only get into nothing but trouble by saying this, but, handy little box.
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I love mine! HPF is a no brainer, but I think the magic is in the LPF, on upright. I can crank the highs for the slap stuff, but tame back the ice pick stuff way up high. Great design

 

[Miles_ONeal]

As I posted above somewhere, buried by now as it was this morning, this may be the best live album ever recorded.

I can never pick a best, but I would put this in the top ten. Although the EQ on this version is killing me (or the ripping, I'm not sure which).

 

[GBassNorth]

You are short a few. Get with it! You need three or four more for a complete set.

LOL - as far as I can tell, I just need one more - a NR. I don't care if it's a Vintage Gibby or an off brand or a modern Gibby or Eppi, just has to be a Non Reverse, even if I have to build it myself.