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Thunderbird Club

#154,821
11th Street Kid said:
I have an Epiphone Thunderbird and if I dial all the knobs to max, the highs are very bright and that’s not my preferred sound.

My “at home” standard is to set the neck pickup to 8. That’s the first point where the low end doesn’t make my amp buzz at me like an angry wasp, so I leave it there, which is the perfect balance point for my sound. Bridge pick up is dial in at 6, which just gives my ear the most pleasing results and I blend it all together with the tone at 3. I get the sound I’m shooting for from the bass and the amp EQ is generally flat, maybe a tiny bass boost to 12:30 but I like what I’m hearing.
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And there ya go. If we all wanted the same sound, there'd be no knobs, just on/off.
 
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#154,828
Gaolee said:
It is very professional. I'm actually wearing shoes and socks. My son gave them to me one year. He suffers from a similar sense of humor.
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I'd say more like "blessed". My daughter 'inherited' my side of the family's sense of humor; my 'bitter half' is generally not amused. Oh, well, as they say in Russia, "tuffski sh1tski".
 
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#154,829
11th Street Kid said:
I have an Epiphone Thunderbird and if I dial all the knobs to max, the highs are very bright and that’s not my preferred sound.

My “at home” standard is to set the neck pickup to 8. That’s the first point where the low end doesn’t make my amp buzz at me like an angry wasp, so I leave it there, which is the perfect balance point for my sound. Bridge pick up is dial in at 6, which just gives my ear the most pleasing results and I blend it all together with the tone at 3. I get the sound I’m shooting for from the bass and the amp EQ is generally flat, maybe a tiny bass boost to 12:30 but I like what I’m hearing.
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The room/space has a big effect on how an amp & bass sounds. The same amp with the same settings and a bass with a 'known' controlled sound will change dramatically in a different room/space. Not only because of the room/space, but also temperature & humidity in that room/space - the molecules in the air that sound has to travel through. I recently moved and my new bass/amp set-up space is experiencing this very issue. I need to install some strategic wall baffles to corral boomy-ness and tame/eq the active-ness of the room. But it can be frustrating because under certain 'ideal' atmospheric conditions, the room/space that gives you problems on one day can be perfect on another day, with nothing different. Then there's playing live in many different rooms/spaces with a varying number of audience/participants...
 
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#154,831
Chucky Stiletti said:
Coupling to the floor is a big factor too.... my SVT rig weighs over 260 lbs....that amount of downward force has to count for something....
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I put the 360 on a piece of playground matting. The matting is about four inches thick, with a rubber top surface and rubber cylinders on the bottom to support the top surface. Without that, the cabinet will get into all kinds of boomy resonance issues. Especially with a hollow stage. I find it sometimes necessary to turn down the lower frequencies to deal with a boomy, muddy room. I doubt this is a surprise to most here.

Your SVT is actually heavier than my 360.
 
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Gaolee said:
I put the 360 on a piece of playground matting. The matting is about four inches thick, with a rubber top surface and rubber cylinders on the bottom to support the top surface. Without that, the cabinet will get into all kinds of boomy resonance issues. Especially with a hollow stage. I find it sometimes necessary to turn down the lower frequencies to deal with a boomy, muddy room. I doubt this is a surprise to most here.

Your SVT is actually heavier than my 360.
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can't think of two more radically different design philosophies than that of a 360 and an SVT for a bass amp...
 
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Gaolee said:
It is very professional. I'm actually wearing shoes and socks. My son gave them to me one year. He suffers from a similar sense of humor.
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As funny as they are, in today's corporate environment that pair of socks in the workplace would be a career ender at best.

I'll just stick to my Jerry Garcia ties, only another Dead Head would even know what they are....
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GBassNorth said:
As funny as they are, in today's corporate environment that pair of socks in the workplace would be a career ender at best.

I'll just stick to my Gerry Garcia ties, only another Dead Head would even know what they are....
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Along with "Ben & Jerry's" Cherry Garcia?
 
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Gaolee said:
I put the 360 on a piece of playground matting. The matting is about four inches thick, with a rubber top surface and rubber cylinders on the bottom to support the top surface. Without that, the cabinet will get into all kinds of boomy resonance issues. Especially with a hollow stage. I find it sometimes necessary to turn down the lower frequencies to deal with a boomy, muddy room. I doubt this is a surprise to most here.

Your SVT is actually heavier than my 360.
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Chucky Stiletti said:
can't think of two more radically different design philosophies than that of a 360 and an SVT for a bass amp...
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Kinda related. There was this rehearsal studio this band i was in back in the late 70's would rehearse at.
Rocket something or other. We'd usually rent their showcase room, which was huge, low ceilings and very well padded.
Pretty dead sounding room. Had a stage that sat up from the floor. Hollow at that. But sturdy.
They had 2 bass rigs in there, A 70's SVT and an Acoustic 370. Of course they never let me run the 2 together, so i'd mix and match cabs and heads. What a tone, all i had to really do was roll off a little bass.

I miss those days.
 
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Gaolee said:
I put the 360 on a piece of playground matting. The matting is about four inches thick, with a rubber top surface and rubber cylinders on the bottom to support the top surface. Without that, the cabinet will get into all kinds of boomy resonance issues. Especially with a hollow stage. I find it sometimes necessary to turn down the lower frequencies to deal with a boomy, muddy room. I doubt this is a surprise to most here.

Your SVT is actually heavier than my 360.
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I'm going to try some simple burlap fabric on stretcher frames that I can build to size to break up the walls. I made platforms for all my cabs that lift them off the floor about 6". I use them live/on stage as well.
 
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