Thunderbird Club

[JIO]

The BYOS (Bring Yer Own Shades) Room.

86 the overheads -

 

[Engle]

New Bass Day!
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Got this from eBay thinking I would salvage the pickups and the bridge for another project.

When I received it, I realized it was like new (aside from the detached headstock), it still had the protective plastic on the pickups and guard. So, I whipped out my Sawzall and cut the rest of the neck off, first time I've done that. Then I proceeded to route a neck pocket to fit a G&L neck I had for another project, painted the headstock black in keeping with the Epi theme, installed some cloverleaf tuners and some straploks and came up with this.
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I just finished it up in time for a gig tomorrow night. Plays great and sounds....well y'all know how it sounds.
So, for the price of an entry level Squier, I got me a Funderbird!

Great rescue! I was the other guy bidding. Hoped it might have gone to somebody here.

 

[dukeorock]

@dukeorock -- IOS13 on my iPad absolutely suxxxxxx, apart from the new stealth mode.

I haven’t checked my iPad yet, but it’s not so good on my phone...I don’t care for it anyway

Probably the Neo-X 212 for lightweight prior to the Uber series. 212 XB was the heavier/standard version.

Neo-X 212...that’s it! I used to be a Genz endorser. They hooked me up with a couple amps and two cabs. The Uber 212, which was...ok, but not great, and an Uber 410. Wishing I would’ve gotten either 2 Uber 410’s, or probably better still, two Neo-X 212’s. Jeff Genzler is a really cool dude though. His head designer at the time now works for Mesa, who I’m an endorsing artist for now.

Yup. It’s no better on the phone. I hate having to research how to use my devices every time there’s a software update.

Right?! They’ve created a bunch of solutions looking for problems

 

[BklynKen]

Yup. It’s no better on the phone. I hate having to research how to use my devices every time there’s a software update.

Welcome to technology. MS Office is the same way.

I've been running iOS 13 since the first betas and it's been pretty bad, but as of 13.1 I've found it fine. The one persistent problem with it for me was autocorrect being completely drunk, but resetting the keyboard dictionary seems to have fixed that.

 

[GBassNorth]

I haven’t checked my iPad yet, but it’s not so good on my phone...I don’t care for it anyway

Right?! They’ve created a bunch of solutions looking for problems

Welcome to technology. MS Office is the same way.

This is exactly why I was looking for a NON PC based stand alone recording method. I've been burned too many times in the past with computer crashes, glitches, brain dead work arounds, non intuitive commands and forced operating system upgrades that impact the operation or performance of the recording program being run.

I'm still looking, but it's gotta be dead stand alone and non PC based. If I can record direct to it with several different instrument inputs and then be able to edit it and save the final recording into a file format like sound cloud that can be shared here or elsewhere it would be perfect.

This is about as promising as anything I've found so far but I think it still runs off an app on the phone or iPad which isn't ideal...

 

[PillO]

18”? That’s the full scale version, right?
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Yes, keep these same contours and colours...

 

[PillO]

Actually drunken badminton is fairly safe as it's most usually played on a thick lawn. Might end up with grass-stains on your white polo shirt but that's about the extent of it. Also, throwing up would require moving the net but would only require breaking out the hose later for clean-up. As long as you set up the net down wind...

The voice of experience?

 

[dagrev]

You're always welcome here brother!

Thanks!

 

[dagrev]

And that was the point. By learning how things escalate when you are a kid, as an adult you understand escalation and so seek to deescalate.

Indeed.

This means a lot of "adults" are really still children in big bodies, as far as reasoning goes....

 

[Count Bassie]

I remember some talk of the BBE Sonic Stomp around here recently, in the context of High-Pass filters. Is the consensus that it's more or less a "poor man's hpf"?

Edit... I'm mulling over a BWS midrange para pedal and one of these BBE boxes to get my signal a little more forward sounding, esp at stage range. Sometimes I, and the guitarist on the other side of the drummer, don't hear my bass very well. Makes me quietly crazy...

 

[PillO]

Heat is an issue, but I'm not talking about the heaters. I'm talking about how much wattage (power) the plates (and screen grids) can handle. Wattage is a function of both voltage and current, not just voltage.



Yes, my point was simply that to get anything more than 12W out of two EL84s, never mind 20W or more, the circuit would have to be push-pull.



Quite possibly.

I need to get one of these on the bench and scope it out.

Yes, power is an issue. The power going through a tube is primarily a function of the plate voltage. The number of milliamps you can push through a tube is generally a function of the physical size of the plate so voltage is the parameter you can push for more power.

If Memory serves (and it might not) rated plate dissipation for an EL84 is about 10W. If you push voltage up you can get more, but at the expense of tube life. Again, from memory, rated plate voltage is about 300V, but if you push to 400V you can get greater power. I think most power amps are push pull because it is a cost effective.

Tubes are far more fault tolerant than solid state. Whereas if you run a tube over spec, it will reduce service life. Run a transistor over of spec and you release the magic smoke. That doesn't mean you should abuse your tubes, but it is an option.

 

[dukeorock]

This is exactly why I was looking for a NON PC based stand alone recording method. I've been burned too many times in the past with computer crashes, glitches, brain dead work arounds, non intuitive commands and forced operating system upgrades that impact the operation or performance of the recording program being run.

I'm still looking, but it's gotta be dead stand alone and non PC based. If I can record direct to it with several different instrument inputs and then be able to edit it and save the final recording into a file format like sound cloud that can be shared here or elsewhere it would be perfect.

This is about as promising as anything I've found so far but I think it still runs off an app on the phone or iPad which isn't ideal...
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Our road manager bought one and has used it on us...for me, there’s a reason it’s so inexpensive and yes, you need an app :/

 

[PillO]

This is exactly why I was looking for a NON PC based stand alone recording method. I've been burned too many times in the past with computer crashes, glitches, brain dead work arounds, non intuitive commands and forced operating system upgrades that impact the operation or performance of the recording program being run.

I'm still looking, but it's gotta be dead stand alone and non PC based. If I can record direct to it with several different instrument inputs and then be able to edit it and save the final recording into a file format like sound cloud that can be shared here or elsewhere it would be perfect.

This is about as promising as anything I've found so far but I think it still runs off an app on the phone or iPad which isn't ideal...
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At the risk of offering a luddite solution to a computer problem...

For an important function, where everything is working, leave it alone, turn off automagic updating, and unplug it from the internet. Then your stable working platform will remain a stable working platform. Of course, if you want to use that machine for other things, the solution doesn't work as well.

 

[PillO]

Indeed.

This means a lot of "adults" are really still children in big bodies, as far as reasoning goes....

You noticed that too...

 

[PillO]

Our road manager bought one and has used it on us...for me, there’s a reason it’s so inexpensive and yes, you need an app :/

You get what you pay for? When did that become a thing?

2 input interfaces are relatively cheap - less than C$150. that gets the instruments into the computer cost effectively. But, then you deal with all computer things with updates and so on, thus my recommendation of turning off automagic updates and unplugging from the internet.

 

[PillO]

I had some time to try out the Road Ready Boogie yesterday evening. It sounds good. Not as loud as the Traynor 1510 I already have, but it does sound good. No faults that I could find. It has had 2 drivers replaced. But I think I will have to buy it because it is a good cab and at C$250 very hard to go wrong.

 

[dagrev]

You noticed that too...

For some time now. An unfortunate and all too common problem.

 

[PillO]

For some time now. An unfortunate and all too common problem.

I suspect they are the same people that stop their shopping cart in the middle of the aisle so that you can't get past on either side.

Now you long-haired hippy kids GET OFF MY LAWN!. Go down to the recruiting station; a couple of years in the Army will straighten you kids out.

 

[fasterpussycat]

I remember some talk of the BBE Sonic Stomp around here recently, in the context of High-Pass filters. Is the consensus that it's more or less a "poor man's hpf"?

Edit... I'm mulling over a BWS midrange para pedal and one of these BBE boxes to get my signal a little more forward sounding, esp at stage range. Sometimes I, and the guitarist on the other side of the drummer, don't hear my bass very well. Makes me quietly crazy...

Can't tell you anything about the BBE ... but it doesn't sound like you need an hpf. Some sort of pre/parametric maybe. Something like the EHX Battalion may be useful and IIRC thry are quite cheap.

 

[PillO]

Can't tell you anything about the BBE ... but it doesn't sound like you need an hpf. Some sort of pre/parametric maybe. Something like the EHX Battalion may be useful and IIRC thry are quite cheap.

Something that has been rattling around in my head

No Kat, not the two marbles...

Everyone seems to be so hot on high pass/low pass filters and parametric EQs. Why not a 10 band graphic EQ if you know the frequencies where you have issues? IIRC, the MXR one the sliders are all Bs and the Whirlwind one is all Es (which kind of makes it easy because you can play those notes...).