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Thunderbird Club

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RedVee said:
I've seen 'angry piano' a lot through this thread.

Has anyone got a clip that they can point me to?
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Turn this up through some good speakers :)
It's fun little ditty from your countrymen.




Lots more clank here.....
 
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Mikaelbass said:
Swapped my thuderbuckers out for some TB+ and boom! The soun I was after. Deeper thicker and less plinky plonky.

Huge low end...bridge pickup is much darker in comparison, more burp than honk. Anyone know the pickup height recommendations for TB+?
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Now is there a difference between the epiphone and Gibson tb+'s?
And where do you buy them?
(Besides classified's, etc)
 
#16,325
Thunderbucker said:
L is inductance, the resistance to a change in current flow. It is affected by number of turns squared, and any permeable (iron-like) materials in the magnetic circuit. In this case, mostly the recoil permeability of the alnico magnets (how much they act like iron to a magnetic field)(ferrite magnets don't act like iron at all, they act like air). Q is the ratio of the inductive reactance to the pure DC resistance of the coil. A perfect inductor would have no resistance at all and an infinite Q. Q is also affected by losses in the magnetic circuit, which is mainly eddy current losses in the alnico magnets.

In this case, the CBs seem to be getting less L for equivalent resistance, which is turns basically. Maybe the coils aren't wound as tightly (that would raise R per turn) or their magnets have higher eddy current losses. Either way the differences aren't large. Mainly what I offer is different winds and some customization.
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Hmmm....

Thanks for the technical explanation, which unfortunately went totally over my head... ;)

I'll stick to just knowing what resistance is... :)
 
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Mikaelbass said:
Swapped my thuderbuckers out for some TB+ and boom! The soun I was after. Deeper thicker and less plinky plonky.

Huge low end...bridge pickup is much darker in comparison, more burp than honk. Anyone know the pickup height recommendations for TB+?
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Do you still have the thunderbuckers?

Mike A said:

That's what comes to mind for me.
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Hell yeah. Tone goals.
 
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#16,331
Korladis said:
I may have asked this before, but are there any bass tuners that look like Grover Imperials?

Also what chrome bridges are there that would fit my Epiphone?
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An exact match I haven't seen yet - But Hagstrom basses uses some very similar looking tuners... Maybe these can be ordered through a retailer?
 
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hillerup said:
An exact match I haven't seen yet - But Hagstrom basses uses some very similar looking tuners... Maybe these can be ordered through a retailer?
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I just looked at Hagstrom's site... you're right, their tuners look very similar. I'd love to have a set of those. Not sure how to get them, though, doesn't seem they offer spare parts.

Seems the only Hagstrom dealer in California is down in SoCal.
 
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Lull T4. Custom shell pink and all gold hardware
 
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