JBP

Never turn down an oppertunity This is the best bit of advice ! Always go for it... what is the worst that could happen? and if the worst happens you stilled learned something, and for everyone who is saying ' start before your 50's etc'. We never stop learning and if its fun its worth it, no matter when you start.

I love that $$ with the maple neck 😎

Ye but they are not right in front of the toilets !

This may have been posted up before, but i just stumbled across this on YouTube and thought it was worth a share:

Thats's very very nice, what year is it?

I cant say precisely when they changed back to the slimmer neck profile my 2008 $$ was a fat one, my 2009 Thumb and the 2010 $$ were/are lovely and slim and exactly the same profile as my 99 Corvette. As Kev said these days they offer a choice of three different profiles. To say the 2008 $$ lacked growl is probably wrong but I would say it was the least Warwick sounding Wick I have ever owned. Its all subjective but personally I have found the Thumb and the Corvette to be the ones that largest dose of the Warwick growl. My 99 Corvette Standard is the growlyest (im not sure that's a real word) Wick I have ever played, its two MEC single coils have so much mid range punch the 2 band EQ is perfect. To me the Corvette is a really angry jazz bass. I found the 2008 $$ to have so much low end from the MEC MM pickups that I was always rolling of the bottom end and then a lot of the mid range growl would go with it. My current $$ is a different beast, the woods are different 50/50 Tiger Wood and ash body, two Bartolini MM pickups instead of MEC's and the three band MEC EQ. It has that Warwick sound but something else as well, and the mid range of the EQ is set at just the right frequency to bring all the anger out lol.

I'm 47 now and when I started looking for bands again a couple of years ago I had the same problem you just need to persevere and you will find something, these days I'm playing in two bands, though I did suffer a few rejections due to my age before I got lucky.

I've been playing nothing but Warwicks since I bought my Corvette in 1999, and that was a peach and was my main bass for about 15 years. In that time I have had no major problems at all until last year when I had the nut and the battery connector replaced, but for an 18 year old bass that's not bad. In recent years I have owned a few different Wick's including a 2005 Streamer Stage 1 fiver which was a great bass, well built, no problems, nice low action, but it did have the chunky neck, it was a great sounding bass but I just didn't get on with the neck so it got moved on for a 2008 Corvette $$. That was a great bass but ultimately I found it lacked the mid range and the growl I wanted. So next came a Thumb which was great but that got traded with @Kev for another $$ this time with a 3 band EQ which just brings the thing to life, I've hardly touched any of my other basses since I got it. I think the point I am trying to make is that personally I have never had any major problems with any of the Warwicks I have owned apart from the sound and the ergonomics of specific instruments, and thats down to my personal taste not anything being wrong with the instruments themselves. As ever if you can try before you buy. The baseball bat necks are truly horrible in my opinion but you may like them.

Damn, I would have been there if I had known they were playing... I just dont pay enough attention sometimes 😞 Did catch Maiden at the O2 on Friday, awesome as always 🤘

Oooo I like that ...😎

Right so here is this months go.. Its 2.30 in the morning and I'm getting this posted just to stop myself messing about with it anymore. Its another funky, jazzy, instrumental thing as I like to do. I think I channelled a bad Stanley Clarke impression and Magnum PI for this one 😎 I hope you enjoy it 👍

I have a 1999 Corvette Standard as well which I did almost sell earlier this year, but just couldn't do it in the end, its not my main squeeze these days but it was for a long long time.

Never say never but probably never. My 2010 Warwick $$ Ltd. I've been a Wick fan for over 20 years but this thing is something else. Its one of only 80 that Warwick built with a Tiger wood top, and I have only ever seen one other with this configuration of Bartolini's and a 3 band EQ instead of the normal 2 band, I've had it since Feb and have played almost nothing else and I know I will regret it if I ever get rid of it. I will never find another bass that sounds quite like this.

Either this...or it is a trap So run, run now as fast as you can!

I got my first bass when I was 13, it was one of those nasty AXE things with a crappy amp from an add in the back of a magazine ('Look In' or something) it was bloody terrible, but because I stuck at it I got a MIM Fender Jazz the following Christmas.

I would go with the parchment, looks great

^^This^^ harsh but true, If these are paid gigs its got to be sorted out.

Personally I love my mid range and I have ended up with a set up pretty much as described in the posts above, Warwick basses and GK amps and a humbucker near the bridge. I was very lucky earlier this year when I managed to get my hands on a Warwick $$ Ltd (thanks @Kev) this thing has Bartolini's instead of the usual MEC humbuckers and a 3 band EQ instead of the usual 2, so the balance goes mostly to the bridge pup, cut a chunk of bass and push the mids up and it just sounds filthy.. love it. So I would suggest a Warwick with a three band EQ, GK amps do tend to lean towards the mid range from their flat setting... well thats what works for me. But as said above just about any bass and amp can do what your asking, Steve Harris plays a precision through Trace amps, Geddy Lee plays a Jazz through a Tech 21 Sansamp, you need to find what will work for you and the sounds your after.

I have 4 at the moment, my two Warwicks my go to Corvette $$ Ltd and my back up Standard Corvette. An old Shergold and a 1980 somthing MIM Fender Jazz, that I have not even looked at for at least 10 years. Then 9 guitars, two Ukulele's, two Pianos, two keyboards and a violin.

I think MM always sound great, I've just never found them particularly comfortable to play, but that's just me I guess. The other problem I have with then is the 'Toilet Seat' look I heard someone mention recently... I find it hard to see past that now...😞

Wow what a fantastic picture 😎 Nice and ambiguous as well love it

@Bleat Well done mate👍 Loads of good entries this month... to be honest I quite liked all of them.. so what is the next Pic going to be?