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The Epiphone Thunderbird Pro IV has a seven-piece (walnut-maple-walnut-maple-walnut-maple-walnut) neck with neck-through construction. It also has the Epiphone T-Pro bass humbucking pickups with custom active electronics and EQ. The Epiphone Thunderbird Pro V is the five-string version of the Thunderbird Pro IV.
The Epiphone Blackbird is the Epiphone Company's variant of the Gibson Thunderbird bass with a couple of differences. It still has the black hardware, a single on/off switch with no volume or tone knobs, a mahogany body with a flat-black finish, the normal Gibson Thunderbird bridge with an "opti grab" handle added, a 1.5" wide nut, and a similar (if not exactly the same) pickguard.
Fox also left his endorsement deal as an artist endorsing the GHS company, and currently has switched to promoting the DR brand of bass strings, and, has although finally become the owner of a white neck-thru-body Epiphone Thunderbird-IV™ bass, Fox has signed a deal to endorse the Esola Custom Guitar Company which will be making his own ...
The Epiphone model still kept the 'opti-grab,' designed and made first by his bass technician Tim Luzzi, and single on/off switch of the Gibson original. In 2008, Gibson announced a 'limited run' new Nikki Sixx signature bass. Like the original it features a neck through design made of mahogany and walnut, with maple 'wings' to form the body.
This is a List of Epiphone players (musicians) who have made notable use of Epiphone Guitar models in live performances or studio recordings.Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of these instruments was especially significant – that is, they are musicians with long careers who have a history of faithful Epiphone use, or the particular ...
Epiphone (/ ˌ ɛ. p ə. f oʊ n /) is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in İzmir, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908.
I really wish there was a citation for the statement, "Due to the large amount of wood under the strings and pickups, this bass has a very high output volume, even more so than many active basses such as the Fender Deluxe Jazz Bass," as I'm pretty sure the high output of a thunderbird bass is due to the TB+ pickups, and has nothing to do with the amount of wood under the strings.
Lead vocalist/bassist Tyson Ritter uses two models of Fender; one is a Black Precision Bass, and the other model is the then-discontinued Jaguar Bass. Ritter also uses Gibson models, including the Gibson Thunderbird and the Epiphone Flying V. [54] Lead guitarist Nick Wheeler, primarily uses Gibson guitars. Wheeler's main guitar is the Gibson ...