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Trade in your Gibson Thunderbird Bass 2018, Vintage Sunburst with Gear4music. This model, celebrated for its robust sound and iconic design, is a favourite among bassists seeking depth and clarity in their performance. If you're looking to tweak your sound or update your gear, trading it in offers a fantastic opportunity. Consider exploring bass guitars with modern playability features or alternative tonewoods to inject new life into your music. Switching to an instrument with a fresh aesthetic or innovative electronics could significantly enhance your musical journey and performance.
Product Ref: 293839
Originally designed by car designer Ray Dietrich in the 1960s, who based the design on 1950's car tail-fins, the classic Thunderbird body shape provided the ultimate comfort and created a renowned style icon. The 2018 Thunderbird follows the classic lines of the original "reverse-body" Thunderbirds of 1960s, offering the iconic elongated offset lower horn and shorter, rounded upper horn to create its memorable "flipped over" appearance. The body is beautifully crafted from solid mahogany, delivering excellent resonance and superior sustain for a beautifully rich, warm tone with plenty of high-end sheen and midrange presence.
As well as offering a comfortable lightweight mahogany body, the Thunderbird also features a mahogany/walnut neck with a rounded profile, offering the ultimate comfort and a smooth play. As well as providing fluid hand flexibility, the mahogany and walnut combination enhances the natural warmth of the body, creating a high-end saturated in sparkling sweetness and a thick low-end response. The addition of a rosewood fingerboard helps enhance the natural characteristics of the neck, adding extra sparkle to the high end and opening up the midrange.
The Thunderbird Bass Guitar was an icon in the underground scene for years before becoming popular in the hard rock and metal scenes, and the T-Bird pickups recapture those iconic tones for the players of today. With the Lead T-Bird at the bridge and the Rhythm T-Bird at the neck, players can deliver the Thunderbird’s signature tone and a crushing bass soundscape. Suitable for almost any musical style, the Gibson Bass Guitar delivers plenty of output and low-end punch thanks to its ceramic magnets, while the independent volume and master tone controls provide excellent tone shaping.
Along with its stunning tonewoods and powerful pickups, the Gibson Thunderbird also features a BABICZ Full Contact bridge, which offers full contact between the vibrating string and the body of the instrument. Jeff Babicz designed this innovative bridge with the intent of gaining the maximum amount of direct string coupling to the instrument's body, with over 50 times more contact surface per saddle compared to conventional saddle designs. Overall, this cleverly designed bridge delivers an improved tone and sustain.
The addition of a TekToid graphite nut offers increased harmonics in the middle and upper frequency range, perfect for creating a rich and detailed tone. TekToid Graphite is the best high-tech cure for eliminating undesirable friction within the nut, which can cause tuning problems. It is the ideal choice for a guitar nut, as it has excellent conductive qualities which overall benefit a guitar’s tone and sustain.