The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Gibson Basses => Topic started by: Dr Eagle on March 12, 2011, 04:02:18 PM
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With Nav Lights!
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg123/sixbass55/2011-03-11_20-14-36_674.jpg)
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg123/sixbass55/2011-03-11_20-11-39_220.jpg)
And my new Epi Pro V with the new shiny Stainless Steel Pickguard!
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg123/sixbass55/2011-03-11_19-27-10_341.jpg)
einige sehr coole Bässe
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Sehr schone Donnervogel!
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nichts, wie Ihr äußerst vielfältig Herde
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:D :D Very cool!
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Nice flock of birds! Love the cherry studio.
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I think a brief explaination is in order Herr Doctor, ze lights, tell us about ze lights ;)
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I think a brief explaination is in order Herr Doctor, ze lights, tell us about ze lights ;)
Jawol! when we get older we start losing our visual acuity (our eyes fossilize). It is particularly bad in dark places (like a stage) so I bought these LED fret position markers for just that situation. Now I can't imagine playing a gig without them, they double as a cool part of the show kind of visual candy with my 3 basses (I usually have 3 at a show) all with fret markers on. www.fretfx.com
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AAAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHH....! (chronic gadget phobia)
Welcome aboard...
(but how can any self respecting WHO trib outfit not have a bassist with a FenderBird in the flock...?) ;D
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AAAAAARRRRGHHHHHHHHH....! (chronic gadget phobia)
Welcome aboard...
(but how can any self respecting WHO trib outfit not have a bassist with a FenderBird in the flock...?) ;D
Thanks for the welcome, I appreciate it!
I love gadgets... just one of those things. Drives the other half nuts. :o
I'd love a Fenderbird, but have limits to the budget for such things. I kind of skipped from P bass (which John signed for me) to Thunderbird and then to Buzzard, missing the Fenderbird and Alembic basses John was famous for. I may end up getting or building a Fenderbird in the future, but it is very unlikely i could ever afford one of the Alembics (Gosh those are friggin beautiful). Perhaps next year when the annual bonus comes at my day job I'll be able to get a Fenderbird... but the wife will probably have something to say about that (less than supportive i suspect).
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I know where you are coming from, Rob, but I could present you with an alternative...
Carlo has a thread running re his own (pretty high standard but suprisingly good value) JAEBirds - he was/is willing to supply a body, loaded or unloaded, fin'd or unfin'd and you have a P... (I'll discuss sales fees later, Carlo... ;))
I have a (brutalised but resurected) Peter Cook Thunderbird but no band at the moment to use it in... :sad:
I also have a very bad reputation for caring for my little herd... :vader:
Oh yeah, do post some vids in the own music thread... we have a resident JAE fan in Curt/DC10bass that has his own regular trib...
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It's nice to see that German is being advanced as ze längwich of zis förüm. Schöne Bässe übrigens!
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very nice basses! Can't imagine somebody buying a Buzzard though....;)
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BTW: My collection is/was also JAE inspired:
- '76 Bird
- Dano Longhorn
- Epi Rivoli
- Fiesta P
- Buzzard ;)
- BaCH Nonrev Bird
- Hiwatt
I sold my 4005. Some people hate me for that, but I never played it. Now I have a Gretsch Billy-Bo and I play it every day. So no regrets at all... And JAE had one of the original Jupiter Thunderbird guitars in his collection, so still a link:)
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Nice Collection... a Buzzard? I do like mine but have struggled a bit with the tone from it. I ripped out the Warwick electronics and installed EMG. It did improve it some but not quite where I want it. So its a work in progress...
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I have a Warwick one, neck through and with passive MEC-vintage humbuckers and passive electronics. Neck is maple and it has a mahogany top and sidewings. It has a very long neck and not much body so that affects the sound. Not in a very good way, acoustically. But played in the studio it's very modern and tight and with a tubeamp it comes alive and it cuts through the mix as the Germans through Holland in may '40. Love it.
Because of the long neck you have to play it high on your body like Entwistle or beside you like BB King. I always keep a bass beside my body, so I got used to it very fast. I'l; have to eat now, but I'll post some pics later!
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My eyes had begun to fossilize by the time I was in 4th grade. I still remember taking the eye test - There were various sizes of the letter "E" and you had to point which direction they were facing, I could see the top, largest one, after that everything was a gigantic blur! At least I knew why I was so crappy at baseball and shooting marbles!
I'm close to being legally blind and don't see very well at night, the LEDS are cool and I'm thinking a little that a set of those might be fun on one of my 'Birds. - Cool stuff!
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Doc - you're a bad influence ;) My last trip to Autozone produced this:
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/199378_10150174039815625_564825624_8333312_370387_n.jpg)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/bluebirdLEDS008.jpg)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/bluebirdLEDS009.jpg)
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Doc - you're a bad influence ;) My last trip to Autozone produced this:
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/199378_10150174039815625_564825624_8333312_370387_n.jpg)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/bluebirdLEDS008.jpg)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/bluebirdLEDS009.jpg)
DAMN YOU AUTOZONE!!!!!!!!!!
Thats cool... but I don't have the pickup covering hardware.
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My eyes had begun to fossilize by the time I was in 4th grade. I still remember taking the eye test - There were various sizes of the letter "E" and you had to point which direction they were facing, I could see the top, largest one, after that everything was a gigantic blur! At least I knew why I was so crappy at baseball and shooting marbles!
I'm close to being legally blind and don't see very well at night, the LEDS are cool and I'm thinking a little that a set of those might be fun on one of my 'Birds. - Cool stuff!
I have one more bass to purchase them for... one of my Carvin LB76s. I haven't been playing that one a lot but its such a sweet bass... I plan to order them this week!
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It's nice to see that German is being advanced as ze längwich of zis förüm. Schöne Bässe übrigens!
So the Outpost joins the swelling ranks of successful dual language cultures: Canada, Belgium and Wales.
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Doc - you're a bad influence ;) My last trip to Autozone produced this:
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/199378_10150174039815625_564825624_8333312_370387_n.jpg)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/bluebirdLEDS008.jpg)
(http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj401/stiles72/Bluebird/bluebirdLEDS009.jpg)
Darth Vader Bird! :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader:
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Darth Vader Bird! :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader: :vader:
Search your feelings, or Feel Your Searchings or something like that!
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I AM YOUR FATHER!
(http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/4005ls/4005lson2.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK-IEzw&feature=related
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO
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From last nights show in Auburn, CA. Played the Epiphone Thunderbird Pro V all night long, left my Gibson Studio V feeling lonely!
(http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg123/sixbass55/photo1.jpg)
Its a little grainy because it was shot by our guitarist with his iPhone.
This show almost didn't happen as for the first time in this bands almost 6 year history, our guitarist got snowed OUT of his house in the foothills near Colfax, CA. He, driving a Prius couldn't make it up the steep driveway to his house which was covered (very suddenly I might add) with about 7" of Snow. I loaded up my 4x4 Suburban lickety split and took off to our singers house to get his guitar amp and then off to the snowing foothills. On the way finding out in near blizzard conditions that the highway to his house was closed about 5 miles short got off the freeway before the closure and backtracked on 2 lane roads in about 6" of snow and slush. I managed to get to his location, picked him up and next had to negotiate a three point turn where there were only a single set of tracks. We got turned around and headed to the gig. What an adventure it was last night. Actually a very enjoyable evening and one of those "remember when" stories!
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Great story, Doc! I'm glad you were able to get through to the gig.
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Dedication to the cause... highly admirable... ;)
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Are you using a Line 6 pedal set there? Looks like it - I have one and love it!
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Are you using a Line 6 pedal set there? Looks like it - I have one and love it!
Yes it is my Line 6 Bass Podxt LIVE. I like it too, building the patches takes some patience but worth it when done! I pretty much run my amp and basses flat tweaking slightly for the venue when needed.
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I use the Acoustic 360 model and copy it over for each of my basses giving them their own individual preset that's eq'd (I run my amp flat too) with the parametric, I also set the output levels the same so if I want to switch basses at a show I don't throw the FOH guy a curve ball.
I think it's a fantastic tool if you own and use many different basses, too bad it's virtually unknown in the bass community.
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Yeah, couldn't find a patch that worked on the pedal even with major modification for Entwistle. I have downloaded patches from the line 6 site and just haven't found one that sounded right to me, not that there is a lack of patches on there supposedly like JAE. I tried starting with a basic tube preamp patch and gave up on that right away because the model is a bit too farty.
I then went with a clean slate and built a piece at a time, never using too much of anything after reviewing the signal path documentation on The Who's web site. There is some chorus, reverb, distortion, and flange on the patch plus both parametric and graphic EQ, and it gets it pretty close IMHO. Took me a long time to get the basic patch done to my satisfaction. Blew the band away... Once I had the basic one down, i copied it and customized it for the basses i usually use for the Who Tribute. Next project is to build the lead patch for " My Generation" but its not that all fired important.
I have also normalized the output levels using my own board to check the levels so they are all the same. And I guess I also need to update a patch for the epi T Bird... its a lot brighter than the Studio which I have a fair amount of top end in. I really like the pedal, it has been persnikerty at times when playing live. I have had issues where there was a lot of RF energy (close to an AM radio tower) where it just didn't want to work normally and got noisy. it is also easy to drag a cord on the control knobs and change the parameters or output volume and not notice it. It will drive you nuts trying to figure out why you have no volume.