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But it’s not all bad 😂

Sting and Shaggy? That was an April fool thing, right?

Surely they’ve hit their peak though, can’t keep going up?

Aren’t those Simms pickups passive? I thought I’d read the battery was just for the leds? What preamp was in it?

That is an interesting bass. You have fine taste Mr Hellzero!

Post on the bass arena unofficial Warwick forum. I know a few guys have been through this process there.

Just came across this on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2413094311/permalink/10156090120594312/ Copied from the post by Joe Climan, list of basses In attached file Hi everyone, I do not post much but have, or had, I suppose, one of the larger collections of wal basses. This week, 10 of them were stolen from a storage unit they were in temporarily here in Santa Monica. I am attaching the most specific itemized list of the guitars that I have. If you see or hear of ANYTHING even closely matching this description, please let me know immediately. It goes without saying I am totally gutted mostly by the loss of such history. One of them, noted at the bottom, was among the first 10 Wals ever produced. EDIT: two serial numbers I have: 1. Tangerine orange (custom, one of a kind) mk2 - 3423 2. Mk1 with hand-tooled flower leather pick guard - JG1114 (4th wal ever produced I believe) Thank you so much.

I smell GAS 😄 Personally I would buy something second hand, if it’s for use at home not something you will be relying on to gig with. The great thing about used gear is generally you can sell it on for what you paid. I got a Markbass 121 P combo in a trade a few years ago. Small, light, sounded great, flexible tonally. Ultimately overkill for my needs at home so I sold it for what it owed me. Basically a free rental for 12 + months. I knew I wouldn’t need anything to gig with. I wanted something very small light portable and sounded good. After looking around for a while i decided a Phil Jones Double4 was exactly what I needed. I was lucky and got a really good deal on one. My advice would be decide what you can realistically afford, avoid credit, define what you need from it now and then start looking. You can always trade up if you decide to take it further in future.

@discreet sounds lovely on that clip. Only just had a chance to listen to it. Noisy feckers in Costa! What strings were you using and any effects on the recording? @kodiakblair at last, proper dimensions! Thank you !

Welcome the ActionMike household!

Hello and welcome Nobby!

Thanks Mark, a glowing recommendation there. Let’s not go putting ideas in Mr E’s head just yet! Can I ask what did they replace? The thing with pickups/mods /upgrades is its often hard to see the difference, especially in isolation without a comparison between the two The bass I'm thinking of modding isn’t a jazz bass as such, it just happens to have a pair of jazz pickups, and the bridge one is stupidly close to the bridge so is very nasal and thin. I’m looking to somehow thicken it up, so a bit darker sounding without too much top.

Cheers Harry. I’ve just had a listen to that vid. They sound pretty aggressive! Not sure if that’s exactly what I’m after, but for the outlay there isn’t much to lose.

Gas is inexplicable and seems to defy logic. At least in my case. I would say I’m off jazz basses, at least the fender shaped variety. I have no intention of again owning a heavyweight cab or head again. I should probably add fretless basses to this list. Four is four more than I actually need, having not touched any of them for a long time. Damn I need to have a clear out!!

Interesting. Thank you. Do they still sound like single coil jazz pickups? They are single coils right?