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Post by geoff738 on Aug 19, 2024 12:16:52 GMT -6
I need another guitar like I need another hole in the head.
I have not checked it out yet.
Anybody love them for recording?
Talk me out of it!
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by jeremygillespie on Aug 20, 2024 14:36:46 GMT -6
They feel weird to me. Where the neck joint sits when you’re sitting or standing with a strap is just odd. I feel the same way about an SG.
I’m sure it’s something you get used to with time though.
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 20, 2024 14:53:52 GMT -6
They feel weird to me. Where the neck joint sits when you’re sitting or standing with a strap is just odd. I feel the same way about an SG. I’m sure it’s something you get used to with time though. Les Pauls sitting also feel weird to me. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by robschnapf on Aug 22, 2024 10:57:06 GMT -6
Firebird pickups are cool.
And a great looking geetar.
I kinda like the non reverse body more.
Just a slab of wood and better balanced.
Without the crazy banjo tuners and headstock dive.
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Post by theshea on Aug 24, 2024 2:45:18 GMT -6
had the epi firebird but with the gibson minihumbuckers innit. cool looking guitar with headdive yeah. i sold it be ause the sound was not „special“ enough to me. although it does the classic r n r thing really well.
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Post by robschnapf on Aug 24, 2024 5:35:54 GMT -6
Mini humbuckers or firebird pickups?
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 24, 2024 18:15:11 GMT -6
Well you guys were lousy at dissuading me lol. It is a tad heavy, but they had a 76 and this one, a 2016, was I would guess a pound or so lighter. Its your standard sunburst, bound fingerboard, Steinberger tuners. A bit of neck dive but once you put your forearm on the body, problem solved.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by anders on Aug 27, 2024 11:50:16 GMT -6
There's a guy in Australia who makes vintage spec Firebird pickups, if anybody wants to upgrade their more modern Gibsons: mrfabulous.com.au/product/firebird-mini-humbuckers/I installed a pair of his in an an old Fender Coronado, and they're rather great. And quite unlike mini humbuckers. |
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 27, 2024 16:04:34 GMT -6
Looks like in 2016 Gibson was overwinding these and using ceramic magnets. So I may do something I have never done, and that is do a pickup swap. Gonna live with them for a while first though.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by ninworks on Aug 28, 2024 7:00:28 GMT -6
I need another guitar like I need another hole in the head. I have not checked it out yet. Anybody love them for recording? Talk me out of it! Cheers, Geoff That's just crazy talk. Guitars are like microphones and compressors. There's always room for another one. You are asking the wrong people to change your mind. You need to go to the WIVESLOVEDIAMONDS.com forum for that kind of ridiculous encouragement.  I have 20 guitars and just as many microphones but I look to see what's available every single day. If I had empty rack space I wouldn't hesitate to get more compressors as well. Hell, I might anyway. |
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 28, 2024 10:23:25 GMT -6
I need another guitar like I need another hole in the head. I have not checked it out yet. Anybody love them for recording? Talk me out of it! Cheers, Geoff That's just crazy talk. Guitars are like microphones and compressors. There's always room for another one. You are asking the wrong people to change your mind. You need to go to the WIVESLOVEDIAMONDS.com forum for that kind of ridiculous encouragement. I have 20 guitars and just as many microphones but I look to see what's available every single day. If I had empty rack space I wouldn't hesitate to get more compressors as well. Hell, I might anyway. Are we related?  Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by ninworks on Aug 28, 2024 12:59:06 GMT -6
The solution for Gibson neck dive is a big wide leather strap that will grip your shirt. Having been primarily an SG player since the mid 70's, that has always worked for me. If you're doing the bare-chested-rock-star thing, you're on your own.
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 28, 2024 13:42:25 GMT -6
The solution for Gibson neck dive is a big wide leather strap that will grip your shirt. Having been primarily an SG player since the mid 70's, that has always worked for me. If you're doing the bare-chested-rock-star thing, you're on your own. Belive me, nobody wants to see me with my shirt off! Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by Johnkenn on Aug 31, 2024 13:04:22 GMT -6
I’ve had an Epi Firebird…but the pickups weren’t FB pickups. Love to have a real one - nothing sounds like it.
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Post by geoff738 on Aug 31, 2024 13:22:34 GMT -6
I’ve had an Epi Firebird…but the pickups weren’t FB pickups. Love to have a real one - nothing sounds like it. My understanding is that for quite a while the Epi FB were pretty close to the OG Firebird 60s pickups and much more accurate than what Gibson was using. Not sure if that is still true though. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by theshea on Sept 1, 2024 0:11:34 GMT -6
Mini humbuckers or firebird pickups? the firebirds are minihumbuckers. i had installed the original gibson minihumbuckers from around 2008 in my epi firebird. |
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Post by robschnapf on Sept 1, 2024 17:44:23 GMT -6
So for the sake of clarity and apologies If this is already understood.
Minihumbuckers are made like regular humbuckers where you have a bobbin wrapped in wire sitting on top of magnets and with screw/slugs going into the magnet thru the center of the bobbins.
Firebird pickups are a bobbin wrapped in wire with the alnico magnet in the center of the bobbin.
Two different sounds.
So are these Epi Firebirds armed with mini humbuckers with a firebird cover or are they actual firebird pickups?
And if they’re firebird construction do they use ceramic magnets like the 90s (which don’t sound like a firebird to me)
Or the proper alnico II magnets?
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Post by geoff738 on Sept 2, 2024 15:36:53 GMT -6
I saw a post somewhere that clearly showed the differences in construction between what is considered a minihumbucker, and the original Firebird design. As stated above they are very different. But I cant for the life of me find the link.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by gwlee7 on Sept 2, 2024 16:01:20 GMT -6
I had an old beat up firebird that had P90s in it. I talked about it in the shit you regret selling thread. 😢
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Post by robschnapf on Sept 2, 2024 17:08:41 GMT -6
I had an old beat up firebird that had P90s in it. I talked about it in the shit you regret selling thread. 😢 I had a 66 3 P90 non reverse firebird that was a sonic rock machine. Unfortunately it suffered from the mid 60s Gibson pinner neck. It was so thin it was like a mandolin at the first fret. 5th fret and higher the rock existed. I traded it for a hiwatt combo an electric banjo and a maestro drum machine. Weird trade |
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Post by geoff738 on Sept 2, 2024 17:26:18 GMT -6
Yeah those mid to late 60s Gibson necks are way too skinny. I don’t have particularly large hands and I just don’t get on with them at all. I would have preferred a chunkier neck on the FB I just picked up but I can live with it.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by robschnapf on Sept 6, 2024 13:31:01 GMT -6
Almost as bad as an old rickenbacker
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Post by geoff738 on Sept 6, 2024 14:39:42 GMT -6
Ricks look cool. But as a playing experience? Ugh.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by sean on Sept 6, 2024 14:47:38 GMT -6
Almost as bad as an old rickenbacker I have a 450/12 and its neck is so small most people can't play it. Slept on a Gibson 335/12 I should've got to swap it out for...as much as I love the idea of a Rickenbacker this one definitely isn't any musicians favorite to play. |
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Post by robschnapf on Sept 6, 2024 19:38:27 GMT -6
For 12 string duty I have a ‘66 epi riviera with pyramid flats.
Sounds great
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