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Thunderbird Club

another great source of info is the guys at Ashdown. Mark Gooday (one of the coolest cats in the industry) now heads this company but was chief engineer and part owner at Trace. Recently they helped me with obsoleted parts for a Trace guitar amp I was servicing. Guy Morel is the guy to contact..
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Mark at NAMM 2018..
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Guy is the guy?
 
Thanks. Yeah, it was just a general question. I have no preconceived ideas about any of this. Mostly curious because I wouldn't have equated rock music (or sounds) with church music, but likely there's a whole world I don't know about. I've seen discussions of using distortion, etc.
It varies greatly from church to church. Some are piano and organ to platforms having three guitars as well as other instruments. Some are soft sounding and other are pretty edgy. Those are fewer in number. We have acoustic guitar, piano, keyboard, drums and bass. No electric guitar at present, but when we do have one distortion is very often used--as subtle texture not a melt your face kind of thing. I won't post a clip of an example because what is on the Internet is either super produced if not over produced and what the typical Church does is not online. So you have overproduced examples and horrible examples some of which would be better not posted on youbube.
 
Yeah I've spoken w/ British Audio. The folks at Peavey were kind and honest enough to admit that Shane knows more & has more info about UK made Trace stuff than they do. Shane hooked me up with manuals and diagrams for the amp, preamp and cabinet. Invaluable resource those cats are!

Is Mk V & Series 6 just what they call the units when the amps are paired with the preamp/eq?
I think it's pretty much preamp changes...
 
That'll learn ya!
There was a reason to use the 5er-a new tune in Dm-coulda used the low D. Tune got changed to Cm-:banghead:. Low C too low for the R100 to produce cleanly.
EDIT: I've found that D is as low as is produced audibly and as low as I need to go. Once in a while, I'll use a C or Db on the last hold, but usually in octaves.
 
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LOL - while you're missing let us know if you run across member #62. :D


Ok @TBird1958, I'll go stand in a corner now. :(

I have ways of dealing with you as well! :laugh:
 
Ah, come on, flash us a pic of those spurs one more time:rolleyes:
Ya forgot this:
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Spurs.......

I've worn them on stage before - carefully!
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Carefully is the key word there, one misstep into a speaker cab or instrument line or power cord or band member could be disastrous. I frequently wore these on stage...
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.... unfortunately I wasn't playing a TBird at the time.
 
Carefully is the key word there, one misstep into a speaker cab or instrument line or power cord or band member could be disastrous. I frequently wore these on stage...
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.... unfortunately I wasn't playing a TBird at the time.

Those don't even have a heel!

Here, boots with heels and spurs, on stage.

No Boots, no Glam!

 

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