I can eat some damn wings, he'd go broke...
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Thunderbird Club
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I can eat some damn wings, he'd go broke...
- Nov 27, 2003
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Well I started building myself a bass today.
I had this five string P-bass neck and an alder body shaped like a Music man Stingray and today I decided to marry the two together... ...and promptly screwed it up.
Well what you see here is the result of my routing template shifting when I was routing the neck pocket, so taping off the butt end of the neck and using the neck as a template itself, I poured the epoxy in there and let it set. This bass will get a solid color so you won't see it after I sanded it all smooth.
Here's what I'm planning with the pickups.
That's an eighties EMG P-6, which I had lying around, it actually gives the bass Yamaha BB-series vibes.
I had this five string P-bass neck and an alder body shaped like a Music man Stingray and today I decided to marry the two together... ...and promptly screwed it up.
Well what you see here is the result of my routing template shifting when I was routing the neck pocket, so taping off the butt end of the neck and using the neck as a template itself, I poured the epoxy in there and let it set. This bass will get a solid color so you won't see it after I sanded it all smooth.
Here's what I'm planning with the pickups.
Love that band, I really need to hit one of their concerts. Looks like Anaheim will be my next opportunity.The Warning are scheduled to play there on 2/4 for their 2022 tour.....I just happened to remember seeing it on their tour poster....
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Fantastic question. To be honest I haven’t found a genre that it can’t pull off well.
Like Jazz, Tbirds do come in different flavors with a slight bias in one direction or another. All birds are very reactive to different string types that can take the tone, grind, attack, sustain and decay even further into a specific direction.
Keeping that in mind if you play frantic Jazz (Spyro Gyra type stuff) I’d steer towards an Epiphone VP it typically sits more forward in the mix than most birds, or maybe even the active Epiphone Tbird Pro for a wide array of tones. For more mainstream Jazz I’d look more towards a Gibson Thunderbird IV or for less money an Epiphone CP (now discontinued) these are the current traditional sound of a Thunderbird. The Thunderbird Studio is hard to find but I suspect would work good as well. For vintage Jazz or Dixieland Jazz and swing I really like the sound of my 2015 Tbird with LaBella Black tapes, played softly at the neck it gives a reasonable upright flavor to the Tbird sound. For smooth Jazz or some Blues where you might want a more laid back foundation type tone a Goth Tbird with cobalt flats works nicely.
All that said, in general just about any Tbird will fit just about any music genre, the info above is really just fine tuning.
So you're back on the Peavey head thing as a treatment?
So you're back on the Peavey head thing as a treatment?
Just depress the "brown note" button in the back...
I need to update my head shots, there’s several birds missing from this photo…
More current but does not include the SpectorBird, the FrankenGoth or the soon to be completed BlingBird.
More current but does not include the SpectorBird, the FrankenGoth or the soon to be completed BlingBird.
Gaolee
Official leathers tester and crash dummy
I need to make a flock shot. There are seven including the P-Bird.
Lovely family gathering!
I have an Epiphone Vintage Pro. I have used it for jazz. You can get a nasally tone (similar to a Jbass) if that’s what you want, by favouring the bridge pickup.
Thx. It wasn’t intentional, just kinda happened over the last 10 years, buying one or two really good priced used ones a year.
Interestingly, they are as different as they are alike. All Tbirds, but each with different strings and pups that takes each bird in a slightly different direction, sure there’s tonal overlap but none are a complete duplicate in sound, some of them sound much better than others on a given song or mix, it’s a blessing to have this many choices. Love em all and continue to look for more unique ones that bring an additional sound to the flock.
Band practice tonight, but here's a family shot.
Greetings from California! Had to take the day off to go up to meet internet installer and a couple other service people at our new place. Having a bit of weather.
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The snow looks beautiful in a photo. But when you have to shovel it, you feel the cold and damp and curse the weatherman that delivered it.
Canadians for global warming.
