lemmywinks

If it was normally priced then it might be worth picking up just for the lefty ebony fretless neck.

Worth about £300-£400 these days, they're ok basses. As said the precursor to the Rockbass, passive pickups are quite tame and don't really sound like any flavour of Warwick. I had the 5 string single pickup version, never really got on with it and I moved it on. That one is seriously overpriced, can get a proper one for that much.

There's a big thread abour Sire upgrades on TB, I don't think there's any drop in replacements which is a shame. When I put Schallers on mine I had to drill two new holes per tuner (I think, was a while ago) however these are covered by the baseplate so aren't visible. Even if you put the stock ones back on theres no visible holes.

Lobster has one of the fretless EHBs, sounds great and doesn't need a pickup swap IMO.

I'd probably look at a used TC BG250-208 which has a far more capable amp section, expect to pay between £150 and £200 when one comes up. Peavey do a current equivalent in the Max 208 but new prices will be over budget. A mate of mine had the Rumble 25 which was perfectly OK, he sold it when he got a Gnome/Mii110 setup which was far better.

Well that's fine, they can do as they wish. I aint gonna line a nonce's pocket so I will also do as I wish. Not sure what your point is or what relevancy it has to the OP's issue but you do you.

There was absolutely no evidence of Jackson doing anything abusive. The OJ SImpson case is controversial, the two MJ trials aren't. In fact they're alarmingly conclusive if you want to look into them, nobody ever does though. He was no doubt a very strange man, he was also someone with a lot of mental health issues and extreme social anxiety. At points literally terrified to be around adults but at ease with children. Guy Pratt provides a some insight into his behaviour in a working environment in one of his YT videos. Put simply people think Jackson was guilty because they have been told a series of carefully selected and manipulated lines. The same people think Paed Townshend is innocent because they have been told a series of carefully selected and manipulated lines.

He admitted guilt and accepted a police caution, got off very lightly by all accounts and was put on the sex offenders' register. He paid to access images of very young children being violently sexually assaulted. His PR did a very good job of reducing the impact on his profile which is why we still get people thinking he was innocent. Contrast to Michael Jackson who had the opposite - trial by media where he was assumed guilty from the off and when the evidence was examined he was found to be innocent. Twice. I used to assume Jackson was guilty (just like everybody else) but as soon as you start digging it's quite alarming how he was treated. It is indeed very different to Pete Townshend who is a child sex offender yet seems to have gotten away with it and can remain in the public eye.

Micheal Jackson was found to be innocent in court. Twice. I have and would still play his songs, wouldn't have anything to do with Paed Townshend's music though.

Wait, it's hundreds of trillions of pounds? I knew Warwicks had gone up but I didn't know they were that bad!

Yeah I agree with this, there's no "chops" requirement to own any level of instrument. The guy in the video can play decently enough too, does some fast metal w/pick passages in his videos and sounds very good doing it. He's just not a fretless fingerstyle player yet so understandably sounds like he hasn't got to grips with it. I wish I had the spare cash lying around to justify splurging 5 figures on a bass unsuited to my gigs and playing style, hell of a bass to learn fretless on that's for sure!

You can get a used German Warwick Corvette for less than the price of a new Rockbass if that's the bass you like. In the sub £1k price bracket there's lots to choose from, I would try a few and see what string spacing you get on with. Either way Cort, Ibanez, Sire, Yamaha as mentioned above are all good options, some of the premium Ibanez SR basses have high end pickups and the used price takes a big hit so if you like tight string spacing then I'd look at those. There's an SR1305SB on Facebook at the moment for £625.

If you really like a bass and are gigging it but see shortcomings in the hardware (which might be functional but is an obvious cost saving measure) then it would make sense to replace with something to your liking. I gigged a Sire as my main bass for years and did some (reversible) mods, only one of which (Nordstrands) made it sound better. The Schallers I put on there made it a better bass to gig though as did the metal knobs which sorted the somewhat cluttered bell plate. It turned a bass I really liked into a bass i really liked. If you're sensible and keep the original parts in case you want to move it on then modding can be very cost effective, especially if you source used parts to begin with.

I'll get some pics and figure a price out and shoot you a message over the next few days.

Yeah still have the original box so shouldn't be a problem. Also has the QSC carry bag and locking IEC cable etc.

Crikey just seen the price of used K10.2, they were going for around £350-£400 on eBay not so long ago. I'll be moving mine on in the not too distant future once I can sort a loaner cab out for the odd gig where I can't use IEMs.

Seven Nation Army is a piece of cake! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpnT_nU724

The colour is way off as well, looks like it's been dunked in custard.

Most of my experience with Westones was with a White Spectrum I used to play all the time at school, belonged to the dad of a lad I was in a band with. Nowt up with it, funnily enough I went round another mate's last year to sort out a little corn snake he'd rehomed and he had a black Spectrum sat in the corner he'd been given by a family member. Had a quick blast on it and it was equally decent as the other one.

Spotted this scratty looking thing https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/161239970068617/?ref=facebook_story_share Twenty squid like

Wasn't even trying to be an accurate copy, surprised it made it onto the website. Surely they'll have the seller's details? Wouldn't think any shop would take a high value used item in without some form of ID.

Allow yourself to be underpaid and it's always going to happen unfortunately, depends if you're happy doing it I guess. I'd can the jam night stuff personally but again if the positives outweigh the negatives then it might be a bridge you don't want to risk burning, probably at least tell the singer you can't ferry him about. We've always done things straight down the middle, if someone does more driving for out of town gigs then they get extra.

Going off his videos he's a pick player in a metal band, no complex parts but sounds good and keeps it pretty tight at a decent speed. Gonna guess he's not spent much time trying to do Jaco impressions. Not really my thing but Warwicks sound a bit good through Darkglass.

That's a great shout for a mini cab for living room playing, totally forgot about it.

The preamp in mine went years ago, unfortunately the little mics inside the bridge assembly are active and need to be powered so you can't just put a different preamp in, I made a new bridge with an undersaddle piezo strip (you can repurpose a cheap acoustic bass bridge for this) and have married that to a few different standard preamps. That's probably the most cost effective and future proof method of getting one of these back to working condition, several people had problems with the preamps IIRC. When mine failed I contacted Aria and Soloette who licensed their twin condenser mic design to Aria for the Sinsonido, the former were useless (think they're just a sales team over here really) and the latter were very helpful but as the preamp design is Aria's they couldn't really do much. Nice people though. They aren't rare btw, they were a production bass and went through several design changes (different body styles and number of body wings), seen plenty of fretted/fretless ones over the years and if you wait a while one will turn up for sale although prices (for the basses anyway) are a lot higher than they once were - they were around £200-£250 when I bought mine. The guitar versions are still going for around £200 on eBay.