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Thunderbird Club

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Well...My venue for tonight is one of the VERY few places that did not cancel entertainment for this weekend.I'm loaded up to go but will be taking every precaution.
Taking the 2013 NR Bird that is know to have protective powers.
Can you imagine a waitress that handles everyone's used drink glass in the house bringing up a drink without washing hands?..I'm going with my own Gatorade tonight
 
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GBassNorth said:
My observation on hollow body basses equipped with round wounds is there's a tendency for the bass to have a bit more finger noise on slides than I like to hear while playing. It took about a week of playing for my Silver Stars to quiet down a tad on the glossy top end. They sound very nice now. Very solid mids, warm but with punch, deep bottom end, clarity in top but smooth not harsh.

Likewise I have Cobalt flats on my Gibby LP Memphis bass and they are a relatively bright sounding flat. I still want flats on that bass so I'll probably switch over to Rotosound flats vs waiting forever for the Cobalts to warm up. I'm looking for more if a dub tone from this bass, kind of in the same ballpark as my SG bass with flats.

All your (and others) raving here about the Eppi JC has me very gassed up to try one someday. Are they a short scale (32" or less) as well? Have you found a good string match for it? I'd be looking for a nice bump and grind tone from the JC, more agressive than the other two basses mentioned above, kind of along the lines of the TBird VP.
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Thanks for the info.

The JC is a 34. I still haven't managed to order strings for it but I'll be trying a set of the Silver Stars (haven't a working amp to plug it in to -- I dropped it off on Friday). The JC is plenty aggressive on the 'full fat' setting (already forgotten what the numbers were -- they are unimportant).
 
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Engle said:
Only a few pages in, but I can see it is very well written. You just don’t get 260 page printed manuals with gear anymore.
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yeah his name is Riley Smith, took his job very seriously. he would post toaster oven pics on pre-rel docs lol..
amazing guitarist as well and co-founder of Trance Audio...love their preamps..
 
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GBassNorth said:
Thx!


...or the time we lit a spool of magnesium wire on fire... talk about an insanely bright flame, and an insanely not so bright student. :rollno:
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In secondary school, science teachers would place a lump of sodium or whatever on a round of filter paper and then sit it in a bowl of water at the front of the class. As the water soaked through the paper, the reaction would start and the metal would go fizzing around the bowl until it burst into flames and finally exploded.

I suspect science teachers no longer do that.
 
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JIO said:
The same year Jazz Plus with Kubicki 9v pre had no pg and came in the reverse-bursts as well as a few metallics. They were top of the line then - really nice sounding/playing basses.

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That's just all around a gorgeous bass. Even the bridge.
 
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GBassNorth said:
I have to admit that I probably play my Gibby SG basses as much as I play my thunderbird basses. That short scale sure makes playing fun. I'm also really liking my short scale Fender Starcaster hollow body these days now that the Silver Star strings have broken in a bit. Haven't warmed up to the short scale Gibby Memphis as much, I don't think the Cobalt flats are a good match for it, needs some Roto flats I suspect. Wouldn't mind trying a short scale TBird but they are pretty hard to come buy in the used market.
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Yep. If SS Birds were a normal tying, I'd most likely have two of those instead of what I have. But since they aren't, I'm content, even if my left little finger feels abused at times.
 
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fasterpussycat said:
In secondary school, science teachers would place a lump of sodium or whatever on a round of filter paper and then sit it in a bowl of water at the front of the class. As the water soaked through the paper, the reaction would start and the metal would go fizzing around the bowl until it burst into flames and finally exploded.

I suspect science teachers no longer do that.
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It is an exceedingly bad idea to take a sizeable piece of either sodium or potassium and flush it down a toilet. I hear.

I admit nothing.
 
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fasterpussycat said:
In secondary school, science teachers would place a lump of sodium or whatever on a round of filter paper and then sit it in a bowl of water at the front of the class. As the water soaked through the paper, the reaction would start and the metal would go fizzing around the bowl until it burst into flames and finally exploded.

I suspect science teachers no longer do that.
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In yr 7 a ‘brand new’ science teacher attempted that... and nearly blew his own head off.

Unfortunately? I was in the other science class and only heard about it.
 
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