Thunderbird Club

[PillO]

take it you got your Christmas shopping done?...

Nope. Still feeling grumpy.

 

[Count Bassie]

a bit à propos...the seller of one of these complains that the mudbucker is way too plummy and that it saturates passive amp inputs (shocker) and wants to change that. he doesn't want anything altered in the bass so i made him a 1/4" to 1/4" 20ft guitar cable with a series cap in both ends to high pass the signal...
using the common 10kOhm input Z of most modern amps the cutoff works out to Fc = wRC..
works well but i need to revisit the cap values since i used 2kHz as the ref freq and it should maybe be higher..
now he has the standard full bw cable and a modified one...not a novel idea...many folks use series resistors in cables to limit PA volumes..

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A cable as a high-pass filter? At what freq does it roll off?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

A cable as a high-pass filter? At what freq does it roll off?

200 Hz but still playing with values. (corrected earlier post that said 2kHz)

 

[MCF]

I refuse to believe until you do some vector math.

Count me out on that one.

 

[MCF]

Picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.

Yeah. Glad I poured a drink before I sat down.

 

[Count Bassie]

200 Hz but still playing with values. (corrected earlier post that said 2kHz)

Man, if yog could get it down to 50-60 I'd buy a couple!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Man, if yog could get it down to 50-60 I'd buy a couple!

easy. PM me.

 

[JJR58]

And your Bird can sing....

 

[JIO]

There are no pictures of sheep with watermelon helmets. Maybe this will help?
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[Gaolee]

If the neck side of the bridge is too low, the forces in the string tension can be such that they pull up on the other two bolts as well as toward the nut, lifting the posts with them. As you raise the neck bolt (relative to the string peaks over the saddles), the forces change so that the long parts of the string pull toward the nut (lateral and even down down). Not sure what the short ends do, but I suspect they are inconsequential in the equation.

For an equilibrium condition, the forces have to zero out. The short ends are consequential in that regard. The vertical forces have to add to zero, which means that the break angle isn't an issue as far as the inserts pulling out. It's a moment arm. The downward force on the front insert has to be equal to the upward force on the rear inserts. The break angle has more to do with string behavior than whether the inserts pull out. All things being equal, of course. And of course, they have to be. It's euclidean physics. Ask PillO. I'm sure he will tell you.

 

[Gaolee]

And your Bird can sing....

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That song is a whole lot of fun to play. And I don't even like playing Beatles songs all that much for the most part.

 

[Gaolee]

Because I think it looks more complete. Purely cosmetic.

Shallow is good! I approve 100%.

 

[WillyW]

I take back my defense of the 3 point bridge...

Since I last posted, the 3 point bridges from my Thunderbird and SG have banded together and pillaged a neighboring village, stealing their winter grain stores, and keying their cars.

I cannot begin to describe what they did to the helpless little kittens....

 

[Gaolee]

I take back my defense of the 3 point bridge...

Since I last posted, the 3 point bridges from my Thunderbird and SG have banded together and pillaged a neighboring village, stealing their winter grain stores, and keying their cars.

I cannot begin to describe what they did to the helpless little kittens....

Coulda been worse. They could have got together with a Precision and beat up the neighbor's guitar, stolen its strings, and started smoking behind the shed.

 

[WillyW]

Coulda been worse. They could have got together with a Precision and beat up the neighbor's guitar, stolen its strings, and started smoking behind the shed.

There was pot metal saddles and body inserts in the ashtray of my car.

 

[GonePlaid]

my bad then, thought 0s were single and 3s were dual pickup

I think it's an EB-3 with an EB-0 TRC. 2 holes for pups but also too many holes in the body, including one for the 4* position switch by the PG. edit-through the PG.

* the older ones had 4 positions-which I never did figure out-like my 66. My 00's Epi had a 3 position switch: neck, both, bridge.

Addendum: 1-neck, 2-bridge, 3-?, 4-??

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was asked about Aussie bands. Well most bands I like have broken up but my favourite current Aussie band is The Living End.





People like Jimmy Barnes are still getting out and about.
His latest album is very good and is his 12th to go no 1 on Aussie charts.



A record, besting U2 & Madonna at 11 apiece. Diesel is still around. I like some of the Snowdroppers (the band in the Red Dog movie) stuff.

I also like Ash Grunwald. I think I may have mentioned him previously?

That's a heapa cool stuff!
I want a metamorphabass like The Living End player has in the first video.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Amen. Amen.

Have two, they're small and there are plenty to go around.

Far too many in some cases, though not here.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

if I understand your post correctly; an increasing force B will augment force C enough to pull out the (over 1" long) inserts from the body if dimension A is shortened?....I think the neck will warp before that..

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All I know is there are people who swear it happened to them, and the forces add up. I think you need more of an angle for it to happen, though.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Being a Gibson/Epiphone product, I assumed the headstock would fly off.

That's the equal but opposite reaction when the bridge inserts fly out. Kind of like having explosive diarrhea and vomiting at the same time.