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Thunderbird Club
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- Jul 1, 2005
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He says '64 in the video.67 reverse?.......
couldn't get past the distortion...
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Every time I hear a TBird solo played with a pick I just drool. I'd love to be able to get that sound, but no matter how hard I try I just can't get past the fact that the learning curve for that style of playing throws my bass playing ability back decades. It's like starting all over again.
(In my best Mr. Mom voice) ... 426, 427, whatever it takes.
Looks like a great way to heat your house!I whipped up a quick prototype for you! It's 35W and 3945 12AU7's in the power section and 55 12AX7's in the pre-amp section
Do it! Would sell like hot cakes and might revive the vacuum tube market.yawn....
these will run on 120Vdc and have REALLY low output Z....16 of these could potentially create an all tube power/output transformerless bass amp that on paper could put out over 300 Watts and weigh 20lbs or less...
patent pending..(In my best Mr. Mom voice) ... 426, 427, whatever it takes.
Looks like a great way to heat your house!
Do it! Would sell like hot cakes and might revive the vacuum tube market.
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Put it in a molded carbon fiber box. Classy and modern.With chrome, of course.patent pending..
Steve Harris doesn't use a pick... Not that it has any bearing on your decision to use/not use a pick.
I whipped up a quick prototype for you! It's 35W and 3945 12AU7's in the power section and 55 12AX7's in the pre-amp section
I don't want digital in the amp and what you whipped up looks an awful lot like the workings of a Univac1
Damn. I’d like to hear him A/B with a VP through that rig. Any idea re strings?
Keep sending her to statistics courses until she agrees.
But I'm familiar with 12A?7s... And the goal isn't simple, the goal is stupid with huge redundancy and stupid. And the transformer is integral to the 'tubey' sound.yawn....
these will run on 120Vdc and have REALLY low output Z....16 of these could potentially create an all tube power/output transformerless bass amp that on paper could put out over 300 Watts and weigh 20lbs or less...
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But feel free to forward that suggestion to Ampeg and Traynor. You never know and there could be a nice consulting fee in it for you.
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More is always gooderSimple solution. If it doesn't work. Add more tubes. More tubes is better than fewer! Does that apply?
Helps with using the bass like a gun.
He might be actually singing, just can't hear over the band. And he does do back up vocals with a mic.
Which makes me think maybe I should do a trial of RS77s on the 'bird (ahem).
And he wears shorts on stage. Show the rest of TB and wear the shorts!
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Yeah, I'm not a computer guy. Univac1 was the tubey computer I could pull off the top of my head. If memory serves (and it might not), it was the first commercially available computer. Also if I remember correctly, It was Thomas Watson of IBM that estimated that the world wide market for computers was "perhaps six".
