Thunderbird Club

[Kriegs]

you mean the Stanley Cup right?

The Support Cup?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Ours either.
Oh...wait...it's me.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The guy that's doing our sound now has a lot of technical knowledge but doesn't seem to understand what music sounds like or should sound like (I realize there are some subjectivity here). And doesn't seem interested in what the musicians playing it think they should sound like. My bass has a very small thin sound in the mains. This is why I won't give up my Ampeg head and 410 Heritage cabinet! I'm waiting for an opportunity to have somebody else play bass and I can go out and listen for a minute. I am looking for an opportunity to ask the sound guy, "Is there a reason my bass doesn't sound like my bass in the FOH?"

yeah, we’re test subjects for their audio experiments that know 0 about sound to them...that said, i’d prefer a “thin” sounding bass that is punchy, cuts through and generally works best for the overall band sound than an indiscernible ocean of wobble..

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I dunno if that's such a great idea, but then when you consider that @godofthunder59 is on his way to owning every NR ever made, there are candidates for that around here.

GOT knows what’s up...

 

[Glenn Johnson]

It needs a Bigsby.

That puppy can fit TWO Bigsbys - one on the left and one on the right. Then it could be a 12 string and you could choose which 6 strings you could apply tremolo to. Am I on to something?

 

[Glenn Johnson]

We're not all the same. I'm a native Miamian so of course my favorite spectator sport is hockey.

Not pickleball?

 

[Engle]

Ours either.
Oh...wait...it's me.

Same here! Not sure how the bass player makes sense being the sound guy. I mean we are the ones that have to be playing throughout most of every song.

 

[Engle]

Yeah thanks. One about 1 km from my house. I can only see about 400 metres towards it then just smoke.
It seems the whole country is on fire.

Yikes. We had a summer of smoke in 2018. Stay safe!

 

[Engle]

Any opinion here on using GHS Heavy Boomers on a Gibby TB?

Will the neck be good with the heavy gauge? I still got a set araound at home but am kinda turned off by the general comments on boomers (short life, mehh tone)

You’ll probably just have to adjust the truss rod and set intonation. Lots of help here if you need it. Just ask.

 

[Engle]

The guy that's doing our sound now has a lot of technical knowledge but doesn't seem to understand what music sounds like or should sound like (I realize there are some subjectivity here). And doesn't seem interested in what the musicians playing it think they should sound like. My bass has a very small thin sound in the mains. This is why I won't give up my Ampeg head and 410 Heritage cabinet! I'm waiting for an opportunity to have somebody else play bass and I can go out and listen for a minute. I am looking for an opportunity to ask the sound guy, "Is there a reason my bass doesn't sound like my bass in the FOH?"

Get a wireless. Then you can really hear FOH and how your bass sits in the mix in that particular room.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Any opinion here on using GHS Heavy Boomers on a Gibby TB?

Will the neck be good with the heavy gauge? I still got a set araound at home but am kinda turned off by the general comments on boomers (short life, mehh tone)

So they aren’t OK Boomers?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

you mean the Stanley Cup right?

No, Stanley, I don’t.

 

[Shannon]

I am looking for an opportunity to ask the sound guy, "Is there a reason my bass doesn't sound like my bass in the FOH?"

Sound Guy: "Wait, there's a bass being played?"

 

[MCF]

Yeah thanks. One about 1 km from my house. I can only see about 400 metres towards it then just smoke.
It seems the whole country is on fire.

Certainly understand the angst. We just went through several weeks of it. Finally got rain two days ago.

OZ fascinates me. I’ve wanted to take a trip there since seeing The Last Wave decades ago.

 

[MCF]

Granted, these aren't matched to size & scale, and there could be somewhat of an optical illusion due to camera angle, etc. But man, there just seems like a TON more lumber there than there needs to be on the green one vs. my Firebird (which doesn't suffer from neck dive... remembuh, it's a gitah, kehd

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That’s a Firebeast!

 

[Shannon]

So they aren’t OK Boomers?

 

[MCF]

The guy that's doing our sound now has a lot of technical knowledge but doesn't seem to understand what music sounds like or should sound like (I realize there are some subjectivity here). And doesn't seem interested in what the musicians playing it think they should sound like. My bass has a very small thin sound in the mains. This is why I won't give up my Ampeg head and 410 Heritage cabinet! I'm waiting for an opportunity to have somebody else play bass and I can go out and listen for a minute. I am looking for an opportunity to ask the sound guy, "Is there a reason my bass doesn't sound like my bass in the FOH?"

Go wireless, walk out, stand by him and stare at his board. Maybe he’ll get a clue.

 

[dagrev]

yeah, we’re test subjects for their audio experiments that know 0 about sound to them...that said, i’d prefer a “thin” sounding bass that is punchy, cuts through and generally works best for the overall band sound than an indiscernible ocean of wobble..

I prefer her not to try to cut through anything. I like the sound of a thick bottom that surrounds everything else that's going on. In my settings there is enough of everything else cutting through so I want to surround it with a thick punchy sound. Think Leon Wilkinson. That's kind of what I shoot for most of the time. A blur of lows, no--thick foundation, yes for me personally!

 

[JIO]

The guy that's doing our sound now has a lot of technical knowledge but doesn't seem to understand what music sounds like or should sound like (I realize there are some subjectivity here). And doesn't seem interested in what the musicians playing it think they should sound like. My bass has a very small thin sound in the mains. This is why I won't give up my Ampeg head and 410 Heritage cabinet! I'm waiting for an opportunity to have somebody else play bass and I can go out and listen for a minute. I am looking for an opportunity to ask the sound guy, "Is there a reason my bass doesn't sound like my bass in the FOH?"

Those inexpensive wireless units (under $100) allow you to do just that.

 

[GonePlaid]

Same here! Not sure how the bass player makes sense being the sound guy. I mean we are the ones that have to be playing throughout most of every song.

We take levels b4 we start(PA is voices only). After the first song[we usually open with 2-3 instrumentals], I make adjustments, usually volume only, occasionally EQ. If necessary during a song, I'll play a few measures left hand only hammering and tweak a knob insert 'ahem' here with my right-a technique I developed early on so I could keep the bass line going and have a drink with the other hand, easy to do playing bossa novas.