warwickhunt

Shame you aren't further North, you could have tried my Super-Jazz 4... and it's for sale! Without wanting this to sound like sales pitch, they are a fabulous bass and the fanned fretting takes ZERO getting used to and as has been pointed out it actually makes playing/fretting/chording easier. The sound is everything you'd expect from a trad Jazz and then some (should have mentioned mine is passive); I've played active basses exclusively for almost 20 years and I thought that the Dingwall would be lacking in top end tone but in fact it lacks nothing. For me the ease of playability just as a bass (excluding the fanned frets) doesn't get mentioned enough; slightly downsized Jazz body, beautiful slim neck but with enough too it that it doesn't feel flimsy with a lovely satin finish, also silly things like the nice rounded finish to the pups which makes finger/thumb anchor a pleasure. So why am I getting rid of mine if they are such fabulous basses... I'm going back to an old Streamer which is a shape and feel I played for many years and just can't get away from.

You can defo get a 4 way rotary as my Dingwall is fitted with one.

Just to further muddy the waters... [IMG]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g119/warwickhunt/DSC05678.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1361542631' post='1987248'] If tests are supposedly too technical for most to comphrend, translate, analyse or relate to something meaniful, then they are just as worthless in some regard. At the end of the day, you aren't going to buy something marvelously spec'd but sounds horrible to your ears... you just wouldn't, surely... For me, there is enough about the Baer cabs to be worth a demo...and then we would go from there...even though I don't need any more cabs. I like the design look and the spec sounds good...so the next step would be to hear them in my context. Subjective views are just as valid as the technical review, IMO.. they all build a pciture. but they don't make you buy them unheard or unseen. [/quote] +1 but I'm so far North I have NO chance of getting to hear these cabs!

I'd have enjoyed doing something like this but I'm in the wrong part of the country altogether!

Oddly enough I know someone who took a Warwick Streamer Stage I and had the P+J pup routes filled and then just fitted the P in the 'wrong way around' (i.e. as per Leo)... and this guy is a bit of a Warwick fan!

[quote name='Hutton' timestamp='1361472198' post='1986316'] Yep. Leo Fender didn't know what he was doing. I'm away to throw my Precisions in the bucket. Goodness knows why anyone would want to play one. [/quote] Hussah, sense at last.

Warwick (...well Spector) get it the right way around. [IMG]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g119/warwickhunt/100_1933.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g119/warwickhunt/100_2247.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1361470932' post='1986288'] Some poor bugger is going to register as XXXXX and get all sorts of grief [/quote]

[quote name='dragan' timestamp='1361467820' post='1986200'] no fire here.I don't want to explain further more. if that seems like right,then I'd love to see you (warwickhunt) in same situation. i.e.,you re selling the bass and I tell you I am [b]buying[/b] it,just arrange personal courier to get it here,and when you complete that, I am showing and saying,ouch,I don=t actually like it now, I may pay it 3 times less,otherwise, get that bass back to England,thanx! [/quote] Take a pill mate. I've already pointed out that 'IF' what you say is true and he had a full set of images of the bass with everything disclosed, no hidden surprises and he turned up with a grand after you'd gone to that trouble then he is bang out of order. However, I don't know you, the situation OR a Vox bass from Adam so how can I or anyone else wholeheartedly castigate this other guy and pat you on the back? I'm 90% certain that as this other guy is a newbie on here then he may well have dropped you in the shyte but I'm not about to start a witchhunt based upon your view of the situation. However, had it been me I'd have done things differently.

Your reply looks perfectly acceptable and plausible to me; in fact it is exactly the kind of thing that I might have sent off if I were in a position where I was unsure about the future of my current band and was looking for something else and maybe wanted to know a bit more about this band before committing. I'd say that if their response is indicative of their general demeanor then you're better off well out of it.