warwickhunt

Are those pups DiMarzio? That preamp is period correct. If you haven't already ordered the new preamp can I suggest you fit a new battery and a jack socket... hiss doesn't sound like the issue of low battery but well worth a try. It likely has had a new jack socket at some time but they are notoriously bad for breaking down; you'd be advised to fit a new one any way, even with a new preamp.

As @dmccombe7 has said it could have been ordered new with a multitude of pups and preamps (if I'm honest, less so the pre). In the 80's, especially pre 88-89, Warwick would take modifications from their distributors and tweak basses to suit customer orders. This was pre Custom Shop and literally a person in the factory would have picked up what you wanted. Around 86-87 I was going to order a Streamer but I liked the Jazz pups that I'd seen in an advert for the new 'Stage II' bass, the local distrubutor said they could get me a Stage I bass (visible neck) with the SSII pups... and I could have the Yin/Yan inlays at NO extra cost. They really wanted to have a share of the market! Warwick offered their first basses with EMG, Bartolini, Seymour Duncan and even Alembic pups (and I bet I've missed a couple! Saying all of that, owners sometimes buy an instrument and make mods on day 1 of owning, so there's no guarantee that didn't happen. Pics would help.

They'll log onto their system this morning and hopefully find an inbox full of messages saying this has a legal owner!

Say 'what'?

I might be simplifying it but as I see it, it is all about the disposal of stolen goods... or at least goods not owned by the seller; rather than counterfeit et al.

Good idea. I've done likewise; they can't ignore multiple messages... hopefully.

Oooof dear me that is a great spot! It'll be interesting to see how that plays out as the person putting that in the sale has a lot... ONE question to answer. Hope the rightful owner can get it back though.

I think I've had a PX3 in my gear draw for 20+ years and it's not been used more than 5-6 times!

Don't get me started Bill! As a school teacher I was required to educate pupils from Y1 to 6th form to be able to use feet, inches, miles, oz, lbs, pints, gallons (but not quarts) etc AND mm, cm, km, ml, L et al... still teaching this even though we went decimal 55 years ago! Honestly it used to do my head in! I should add that I was still doing this up to 7 years ago when I retired aged 55.21 years.

Visit a Halfords that has a cycle dept (or any bike shop tbh), they are happy to give away bike boxes which are nice and thick.

I can assure you I have gone through this very process INCLUDING going to the Ombudsman... when you agree to terms and conditions the onus is on YOU to identify if any relevant clause(s) apply to you purchasing basic or enhanced insurance. In my instance the Ombudsman investigated the loss of my instrument and concluded that as PF's T&Cs excluded instruments it was my fault for still going ahead and paying for enhanced insurance (through them), I wasn't even entitled to their basic £20 cover as it was an item specifically included. Oh and I couldn't even get back my delivery fee!

Not the same noise but we had a proper b4llache dealing with a pulsing 'noise' through our desk. We thought we pinned it down to the sax players Zoom effects unit (when disconnected)... only to find that if he was plugged in and one of the guitar Helix was unplugged it went off! Argh.

Packing my gear to head off from the NE to Grimsby for a double header!