Detail of Sunn rig, with setting markings. And I put Fender necks on because the Thunderbird necks were too thin on top.Ĭlick to view larger version. The bridge is positioned a sixteenth of an inch forward of where it is on the stock Thunderbird. I had bodies made with the Thunderbird pickup and bridge. Either Thunderbird or Fender/Thunderbird hybrids. Even now, when I find myself in a corner, I force myself to change equipment or play in a different way.” From October 1994, Guitar World interviewĪlso, around Quadrophenia was when I changed to Gibson Thunderbird basses. I then went back to using treble and my style changed yet again. ![]() Sunn amps had a pretty solid sound to them and all this combined helped me out of this rut I was in as a player. I started using the Thunderbird which had a much bassier sound, in fact no treble at all! I felt like I’d got stuck in a rut and the only way I could get out of it was by changing my playing style, my technique and all my gear. I’ve never been fully comfortable with my bass sound, and it doesn’t seem to transfer to tape very well unless it’s live. But I basically set the Sunn amps completely flat. I used a very straight bass sound in the studio, although later for the tours I started to use more treble and got a bit raunchier. “It was a Gibson Thunderbird bass and Sunn amps. From December 1996 Total Guitar magazine interview What gear were you using on the sessions? Selected quotes from John EntwistleĪll quotes and references are copyright their original owners and are included for reference only. Power: solid state, 320 RMS (880 watts peak) in a 2ohm load. Rear panel: Circuit breaker, two speaker jacks, preamp out jack, mixer input jack. Front panel: Line in jack/line out jack, input sensitivity (off/.5volt/1volt/2volt), audio/117v switch, lighted VU meter, polarity switch, power switch. A lot of versatility - you could turn the midrange off or turn the bass off or the treble, it used active filters. You could turn it all the way off, so you had ultimate control. But John largely remained with the one Coliseum Lead/one Coliseum Bass each on one Sunn 4×12/1×18 stack through December 1971.Ĭonrad Sundholm (of Sunn), on the Sunn Coliseum bass amp ( from the Sunn Shack ( archived):īut the Coliseum series, that included the bass amp used by the Who, was a unique preamp circuit because each of the tone controls was a separate preamp. 1971, an additional Coliseum Bass amp was used.
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