lemmywinks

Sweet bass mate, my favourite colour of the $$ Warwicks. Definitely on the want list! Cute cat too!

I have my main rig and a little Hartke A70 practice amp (which can actually go pretty darn loud). Currently putting together a mini rig comprising a Superfly and a small homebuild cab for something lighter for EUB jams, also can leave it in practice rooms with no worries about security Nothing wrong with having multiple rigs!

[quote name='Linus27' post='647318' date='Nov 6 2009, 03:25 PM']I found myself in Guildford this afternoon and so I popped into Andertons to have a try of some Warwicks and hopefully a Corvette. They only really had a Bubinga Corvette Double Buck but it was better than nothing and it was more the neck and how it felt on a strap rather than the sound. The assistant handed it to me and my first thought was how heavy it was but in reality, it was no heavier than my Stingray. He plugged it in to a Mark Bass combo thing and I started to play and it sounded amazing. Now I know what the Warwick growl is and I loved it. It was also really tight and punchy. No idea what settings I had as it had two switches but how ever I set them it still sounded great. Next I tried it with a strap and again it felt fine. I played for about 20 mins and then I realised, the lack of dot markers on the face of the frets and realised not having them there is not going to be a problem. The bass was really well balanced and did not feel heavy or neck dived at all. My only concern was due to the long neck or shape of the bass, the frets are a little further away and I did feel I had to stretch a little to play further down the neck closer to the headstock. I'm sure I would get used to it but it was a noticable difference. I now wonder how different a Corvette Standard in Ash would be considering it has a bolt on neck, lighter body, different pickups and passive circuitry. I am so very tempted to go for one.[/quote] Converted! Time to get the credit card out methinks.... I didn't know Warwick still made passive basses, they didn't do the passive Corvette when i bought mine years ago.

I use a little case from B&Q, they were £16 for two different sized cases. They're £20 now so not such a good deal: [url="http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9676728&fh_view_size=10&fh_eds=%3f&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB%2fcategories%3C{9392071}&fh_search=case&fh_refview=search&ts=1257527124136&isSearch=false"]http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav.jsp?acti...;isSearch=false[/url] I use one for my LMII and the other is good for leads and the odd pedal

The recent active MIM one i played was noisy but sounded good. Had to be careful with the treble as it sounded brittle but the bass had tons of thud and was a slap beast. In fact it was one of the best slap sounds i've heard recently! Might benefit from some shielding too as it had a very prominent hum Seemed well built and played great though

[quote name='tauzero' post='645240' date='Nov 4 2009, 01:49 PM']Et viola, not a conversion but an innovative piece of construction, only let down by the fact that it's hideous.[/quote] Makes you wonder why someone bothered to think all that up for such a horrible bass!

[quote name='Beedster' post='644699' date='Nov 3 2009, 08:48 PM']Looks like another ebay vintage Fender with suspicioulsy light and unwaxy/ungreasy bare wood to me?[/quote] That's what i was thinking, the wood looks days old! The headstock looks lush though

[quote name='captain black' post='644743' date='Nov 3 2009, 09:33 PM']In a similar situation myself just now where you're a bit obligated to someone, normally a drummer it has to be said, but things don't appear to be progressing. [b]our drummer just decided he wanted a 3-4 month break to sort out his extension!!!![/b] left us in the lurch as we were just getting regular gigs. had enough of things now and even though we're still doing a couple of gigs which we're committed to I'm calling it a day. Pastures new. Don't know how old you are but I'm 40 in a couple of days and I don't want to mess around.[/quote] You can get pills to help with that nowadays!

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bass-Electric-Guitar_W0QQitemZ200401660189QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item2ea8dea91d"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bass-Electric-Guitar...=item2ea8dea91d[/url] Worth it for the neck and tuners!

[quote name='MythSte' post='643914' date='Nov 2 2009, 09:45 PM']Ahh, I do miss my Schroeder, the one Lemmywinks has now and Dave tried. But the problems outlined are just unacceptable. Even my barefaced vintage is well put together and that was made by some bloke in brighton [/quote] Nice Warwick btw!

He left an Aguilar at mine so it was a temporary trade really! The Aggie was much lighter but i couldn't go back to using 2 cabs again, i've been spoilt with the Schroeder!

He left an Aguilar at mine so it was a temporary trade really! The Aggie was much lighter but i couldn't go back to using 2 cabs again, i've been spoilt with the Schroeder!

[quote name='GreeneKing' post='643836' date='Nov 2 2009, 09:45 PM']I personally wouldn't touch a Schroeder. A friend of mine who has built some really extremely high quality BFM cabs recently tried out a Schroeder and sold his Aguilar GS112's as he was so impressed with the sound. He ordered a new Schroeder and the build quality and wiring was so bad (like the tweeter was not properly connected) that he immediately sent it back.[/quote] Mr. Perry by any chance? If so it was my 1212r he tried, made long before any QC issues. I love my Schroeder but would be a bit wary of buying one new. Two folk near me have bought Schroeder cabs and both have had issues with them, one was the dust-cap problem and the other was a faulty driver, both had to go back Does sound awesome though and goes silly loud. I think if i was in the market for bass cab and had around £600 to spend Mr. Claber would be getting a rather nice pm

Love it! It's not often you can genuinely say "I've never heard anything like that" in a good way!

If anyone's interested and can get to Warrington there's a Vintage Ray copy with an amp for £50 BIN on eBay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELECTRIC-VINTAGE-BASS-GUITAR-AND-AMPLIFIER_W0QQitemZ170401713557QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item27acbbcd95"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELECTRIC-VINTAGE-BAS...=item27acbbcd95[/url] If i could get there i'd have had it!

[quote name='hubrad' post='642696' date='Nov 1 2009, 06:41 PM']Why would anyone bother to put the tuners at the bottom and still put a head at the top?[/quote] There's holes on the back, for through body stringing? Also the headstock looks like it's had a piece of wood glued over it. Looke like it might have originally been a normal bass, poorly converted to it's current state leaving the through body string anchors redundant? Either way, it's butt ugly and i don't want it!

Good score, that's a nice looking bass. Keep meaning to get a tortie scratchplate for my Aria Jazz

Excellent. Always loved the Mac, McVie is a criminally underrated player and always has the right line for the song Lindsey Buckingham is one of my favourite guitarists too, what made him annoying?

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='639030' date='Oct 28 2009, 01:06 PM']That's interesting but not the one I had in mind. It was video of Jemmott and Pastorius chatting.[/quote] That's it, 9min 20sec in. According to Jaco it's harder to play a fretted because of fret noise! But yeah, he says he always played over the fret as it's clearer

Warmoth do indeed make TBird parts, very nice ones too: [url="http://www.warmoth.com/Bass/VintageShapes/ThunderbirdBass.aspx"]http://www.warmoth.com/Bass/VintageShapes/...erbirdBass.aspx[/url] The Epi TBirds come up on eBay around £150+

This is an edited down (i think) version of the interview i remember: [url="http://www.jacopastorius.com/features/interviews/portrait.asp"]http://www.jacopastorius.com/features/inte...ws/portrait.asp[/url] No mention of the fretting technique though It was from an old bass special of Total Guitar i think, it had a big feature oin Jaco IIRC. It's knocking around in the attic somewhere so i'll try to fish it out tonight

[quote name='EssentialTension' post='638622' date='Oct 27 2009, 11:24 PM']I'm sure in an interview of Jaco Pastorius by Jerry Jemmott I heard Pastorius say that he never practiced on fretless. He always practiced on fretted with his left hand fingers dead on the fret so that his muscle memory was perfect - or something to that effect. The idea being that playing fretted, played 'correctly', will help you to play fretless. Anyone else seen that or am I imagining it? For me, playing fretless made me listen differently and more carefully to what I was playing and I would say that now slips over into my fretted playing.[/quote] Aye i read that interview too. Said he played on the fret because it sounded better to his ears

[quote name='Doctor J' post='638742' date='Oct 28 2009, 08:08 AM']If it sounds ok acoustically then that rules out any nut or bridge issue. The nut is only a factor when you play an open string anyway. If this deadness is still there when you fret, then it's not the nut. You could swap the A and E bridge saddles too, rule out the bridge. [b]Anyway, what might be worth trying is reversing the pickup under your E and A strings so the posts under the A string are now under the E string and vice versa. It should rule the pickup in or out as an issue fairly quickly[/b], just make sure you don't put a screw through the wire when you're seating it, it's easy to do. On the off chance, this isn't a Rotosound string, by any chance?[/quote] Was just about to suggest that!