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And here the pictures of my heavily modified BB5000A in Purple Pearl :
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Why would you buy this new for £116.70 ...
Hellzero replied to Happy Jack's topic in eBay - Weird and Wonderful
But you could play A Night in Langney. Here it is, for those who don't know it yet, live from the studio : -
Will post some pictures tomorrow...
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Tim, If I remember correctly, this is a bolt on neck, so simply put a decently madenout of very dry maple wood shim in the neck pocket. This will lower the action, add some useful tilting to the neck, but please use the truss rod for what it's meant for : adjusting the neck relief and not the action.
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For the moment, being more a 6 strings (fretless) bass player, I have a TRB-6P fretless (defretted) in the herd, but it's not for this thread. 🤔 But I still have the pictures of my heavily modified BB5000A in the rare Purple Pearl finish.
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I think it's a Schweinberger. 😎
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Especially the wide neck BB5000A editions of the late 80's, early 90's. That said the BB5000A has been available in Silver Pearl in 1988.
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Hell no. 😂
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Nope, only colours available for the BB3000A were Candy Apple Red, Cream White and Metallic Black. The BB3000AF was also available in Natural and Pearl White instead of the Cream White.
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Hope this helps :
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Look closer, this is a badly done relic job. There is a DVD talking about it (I have it somewhere) and every step has been over respected just like staining the neck. Awful !!!
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Tried a friend's BB2025X today : impressive bass, I must admit. It reminded me of that Nathan East first edition I had many many many years ago. Too bad they don't make these BB2025X's anymore and that there were no fretless 6 strings model.
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Bought back my Aries Senes VS 6 Tomek to Russ : another perfect deal, what else could I say !
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It says available within one week, strange, so I didn't hit the button...
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Thanks for the clarification. I will order the preamp right now.
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Unbeatable deal still at the delirious prices elsewhere and by Warwick themselves !?! I need a new rack preamp, I think I know which one I'm going to buy. That said a complete rig is very tempting.
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Emptying the drawers, so selling the stuff I don't use. FOR SALE OR (PARTIAL) TRADE BASED ON THE NEW RETAIL PRICE (£400 GBP because of the $100 USD remote PCB, plus €55 EUR for the 3 sets of metal knobs) : Michael POPE Flex Core 2stk.1stk + Kill Switch with remote bass and treble PCB made especially for me by Mike himself (costed me $100 USD : I can send the emails exchanged and the PayPal invoice to prove it) ! Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £220 GBP !!! In fully working condition and only used in one bass, so almost new. And remember that it's really the most tranparent onboard preamp ever. Here are the specifications : Flex Core 2stk.1stk Internal Preamplifier includes the following components : Master Vol/Tone stack pot, Pickup Blend control, Active/passive toggle switch, Separate Bass & Treble control with remote PCB, Stacked Lo Mid/Hi Mid control, Kill switch. Mike Pope preamps offer the Flexcore onboard preamp for your onboard active EQ needs. The Flexcore is a 1-to-4 band preamp that is extremely nimble in its configuration options, allowing you to decide which configuration best fits you. Originally offered only on Fodera instruments, these preamps are now available for any instrument that can handle the installation. Since these are prewired in-house and utilize a unique and custom modular connection between components, certain components can be omitted or included if less or more EQ bands are required. There is NO soldering required for most installations. The Flexcore also does not require impedence matching of the controls for active or passive Pickups. It can accept input of both active pickups like EMG, and passive pickups including Bartolini, Aguilar, Nordstrand, Lindy Fralin, Delano, Seymour Duncan, and DiMarzio. Pickups, bridge ground, and power for active pickups is available input via screw terminals. These preamps are supplied in 18v power configuration but can easily be modified to run 9v, though it is strongly recommend to use 18v power if active pickups like EMG are being used. The basis of the Flexcore is in Michael Pope's philosophy on music. Being a bass player himself, his preamp design is intended to support the bass player in a musically inspiring fashion. Not content with equipment that imparted its own personality or did not offer enough features to sculpt his own unique sound, he set about building the Flexcore with its own unique approach and circuitry. The circuitry in the Flexcore is designed to assist and not harm nor overly contour your sound. When the EQ sections are set flat in active mode, they are as close to a straight line of the pickup's signal with a small presence of gain adjustment. The ability to create this transparency stems from the unique EQ staging. Each stage of the tone shaping circuit is independently isolated from the others. The ICs (Integrated Circuits) are 10 times more expensive and infinitely more responsive than what you would commonly find in a run-of-the-mill preamp. There are also frequency switching options available in the tone circuit to allow you to dial in any character imaginable. Anything from up front in-your-face crisp slap tones, to darker "What is Hip" style finger style tones, to deep hollow rock tones, or the edgy Rickenbacker style edge, the circuit is there to assist without injecting its own personality in your tone. The Flexcore requires a control cavity depth of 1¼" for installation of the controls. Each standard non stacked control accepts a 6mm set screw knob, while the stacked controls accept an 8mm lower, and 6mm upper set screw style knob. The switchable frequencies can be adjusted on treble and bass using the supplied jumpers, where the mid controls can utilize the supplied jumpers or accessory mid Switches to allow the ultimate tonal shaping of the midrange frequency spectrum. We carry a wide array of accessory switches including mid Switches, kill Switches, active/passive switches, and coil tap switches in chrome and black finishes. Technical Specifications Treble: +/- 15dB @ 6kHz or 10kHz Hi Mid: +/- 15dB @ 1kHz or 1.8kHz Lo Mid: +/-12dB @ 330Hz or 473Hz Bass: +/- 12dB @ 46Hz or 90Hz Will come with the user manual and the 3 sets of metal knobs as it was first intended for a gold hardware bass, then a chrome one and eventually ended up in a black hardware bass, so you get the whole 3 sets for the same price. Non-smoking environment as usual. Link to the Flex Core preamp : http://michaelpopedesign.com/flexcore.html Link to the easy 9 Volts (18 Volts preamp by default) modification : What you see is what you get ! Look at the pictures to see the almost new condition. Don't hesitate to ask for more photos or details. Dust is offered.
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If @LukeFRC has one of these MEC preamp in a drawer, that would be the best fit.
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Why not putting in what makes the Warwick sound, their MEC preamp ? This is the one you need : https://shop.warwick.de/en/Parts+for+Instruments/Parts+for+Basses/Electronics/MEC+Active+BEC+2+Electronics+for+active+Pickups+-+_Vol+PP+_+Bal+_+T+_+B_ Otherwise, a Glockenklang 2 bands would be fine, very transparent. The Mike Pope Flex Core is certainly the best onboard preamp, the most transparent and the most expensive too...
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If it's like this, it's a MEC preamp :
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Very nice bass indeed, but if it's a Japanese model, which surely is, it's a TWXT-6 model : http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~tune/tune/twxt/twxt.html Read this notice, since there are two different Tune companies, a Korean one and the original Japanese one ; the Korean one being somehow illegal : http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~tune/basic/important/important.html In fact, the Korean company "acquired" the license after the original Tune Kobe factory was destroyed by the 1995 earthquake, but "forgot" to pay for this... Also, yours is not an early 90's model as they had no serial numbers, reversed mounted Gotoh (Tune branded) tuners and the "Tune Guitar Technology Made in Japan" logo "stamped" under the lacquer at the back of the neck (see pictures).