Thunderbird Club

[Stevis]

Looks like an interesting head, but for roughly $3100.00 I won't be trying one out.

I was curious if anyone was producing "boutique" bass amps these days, as there are so many high end tube options on the guitar side: Swart, Dr. Z, 65amps, Suhr (and pricey relaunch of vintage brands such as Magnatone and Supro). They are spendy but not $3100 (for a head only).

 

[hillerup]

All this Rig talk reminds me that I still have to sell my barely gigged SVT-VR and Bergantino NV610 rig. It's just too much for anything I'm doing these days. I haven't even plugged it in more than once in the last 4 years. If I could figure out how to set my paypal account up to accept payments it would have already be sold.

Great music room... But isn't there something fundamentally wrong with this picture...?

 

[kat888]

Great music room... But isn't there something fundamentally wrong with this picture...?

I was too polite to mention it.

 

[kat888]

Sorry but that Audio Kitchen amp looks like £3300 worth of 'authenticity' designed for hipsters by hipsters. For Brits and ex-Brits, this video is full of cultural signifiers.

 

[Klondike]

Sorry but that Audio Kitchen amp looks like £3300 worth of 'authenticity' designed for hipsters by hipsters. For Brits and ex-Brits, this video is full of cultural signifiers.

Not a hipster by any means but I rather like that amp.

 

[Haji]

That amp sounds good...like a well used Ampeg...

 

[Count Bassie]

Sorry but that Audio Kitchen amp looks like £3300 worth of 'authenticity' designed for hipsters by hipsters. For Brits and ex-Brits, this video is full of cultural signifiers.

Finally. A bass amp that sounds good (insert string of adjectives here). So important.

Not going to get riffing on it! You think I'm a bore now...

 

[Count Bassie]

Finally. A bass amp that sounds good (insert string of adjectives here). So important.

Not going to get riffing on it! You think I'm a bore now...

It's listening to the guy go on about it that nicks me. Boring.

I'm putting myself outside here, probably. I'm ok with it, And I get the search for tone, and the endeavor to optimize the voicing of a circuit so the eq you use is more efficient, true-to-life, what have you.

But Kat888s "hipster" remark just hits home for me. I live next to Providence, RI, the hipster capital of our great country... *yawn*...

 

[kat888]

I live next to Providence, RI, the hipster capital of our great country... *yawn*...

And there was me thinking it was Portland OR. They've invaded my little part of Sydney as well, drinking their beer out of jam jars...

 

[Larry V]

I have a cool story to share but I want to do it with pictures and I want it to be a story with a beginning and an end. So I'm going to have to wait till I have seen this really cool thing through.

Yes, I'm being vague and totally aloof but I can't wait to tie this one up with a big red bow!!!!

 

[DerekW]

I see where old school folk don't dig the hipster vibe.
And I'm 48, so don't get me wrong, I'm not a kid (though I suppose my beard and haircut make me hipster-ish, and I've always presented myself in whatever is fashionable for the time, not to the extreme, but I like to stay current).

But if you don't like something because it's marketed to the popular culture of the day, then you fall into the "get off my lawn" mentality.

Seems like a super cool, well thought out amp.
I wouldn't spend that kind of money for it, but I don't hate it simply because they are marketing it in a way that is exactly the way cool, new things are marketed in whatever today's cool, new market is.

 

[Stevis]

Sorry but that Audio Kitchen amp looks like £3300 worth of 'authenticity' designed for hipsters by hipsters. For Brits and ex-Brits, this video is full of cultural signifiers.

"Cultural Signifiers"? Kat, are you bust'n out some semiotics on TalkBass?

 

[Nocturnal]

I see where old school folk don't dig the hipster vibe.
And I'm 48, so don't get me wrong, I'm not a kid (though I suppose my beard and haircut make me hipster-ish, and I've always presented myself in whatever is fashionable for the time, not to the extreme, but I like to stay current).

But if you don't like something because it's marketed to the popular culture of the day, then you fall into the "get off my lawn" mentality.

Seems like a super cool, well thought out amp.
I wouldn't spend that kind of money for it, but I don't hate it simply because they are marketing it in a way that is exactly the way cool, new things are marketed in whatever today's cool, new market is.

I don't have an issue with the marketing, hipsters, or anything else beyond the price. It seems like a nice, well thought out amp just with boutique pricing which will leave a lot of people (including me) out of the market.

I too try to stay current but age appropriate with my wardrobe. It always cracks me up when I see someone my age that is dressed like a 20-something. It also cracks me up when I see someone my age dressed like an old man.

 

[Haji]

I'm sure they'll sell a good sized pile of them, but I wonder how much damage to potential sales that price will do since the economy has been sputtering for quite a while now. It's not like the 80s anymore when everybody had disposable income for gear. That'll be interesting to watch.

Who knows? Maybe they blow up huge overnight and end up being bought out by Bumper or Gibson...and languish for obscenely long periods of time.

 

[GBassNorth]

Great music room... But isn't there something fundamentally wrong with this picture...?

It was taken in my pre Gibson TBird era but at the time I was already a club member because of the Rex Spector hanging on the wall.

 

[Stevis]

Are these Audio Kitchen heads made mostly for studio/recording? The product page for the head states: "It addresses the perennial goal of producers and engineers – how to get the bass to sit further forward in the mix." Unless I misinterpreted the specs page, it is a 60 lb head that puts out 120W: Invalid Link Removed. Could something that size, with 7 tubes, only put out that little power? Wouldn't it be hard to gig it at a venue larger than a small pub? Or is the idea that you run these heads into a much larger power amp? Otherwise, it seems like a guitarist (or two) using their [Invalid or Expired Link Removed] guitar amp head (30 watts), into a 2 X 12 cab, might be louder on stage, no? And then add a drummer. Yet, they also offer a 8 X 10 bass cabinet.

 

[hillerup]

And there was me thinking it was Portland OR. They've invaded my little part of Sydney as well, drinking their beer out of jam jars...

Apparently it's a wide-spread problem... We have parts of Copenhagen, where this hipster pandemic has been showing it's ugly (bearded) face for quite a while... Urgh...

 

[hillerup]

I have a cool story to share but I want to do it with pictures and I want it to be a story with a beginning and an end. So I'm going to have to wait till I have seen this really cool thing through.

Yes, I'm being vague and totally aloof but I can't wait to tie this one up with a big red bow!!!!

You're tying us all up in suspense, Larry!

 

[hillerup]

I don't have an issue with the marketing, hipsters, or anything else beyond the price. It seems like a nice, well thought out amp just with boutique pricing which will leave a lot of people (including me) out of the market.

I too try to stay current but age appropriate with my wardrobe. It always cracks me up when I see someone my age that is dressed like a 20-something. It also cracks me up when I see someone my age dressed like an old man.

...Or women for that sake...

 

[hillerup]

It was taken in my pre Gibson TBird era but at the time I was already a club member because of the Rex Spector hanging on the wall.

Maybe it's time for an updated pictures with all the glorious T-Birds hanging on display?