warwickhunt

[quote name='borneostyle' timestamp='1339704574' post='1693164'] Right, atoncer is buy and sell site like ebay. I use just to promote to sell my bass products [/quote] I assume that you've cleared it with the Mods to trade on here? Of course it could be that your reference to your bass 'products' is a language thing and these are all in your private possession!

Prices in $ and looking very much like a USA store... is that the case?

Pleasure dealing with Grahame; excellent communications and bank transfer payment was made immediately and the courier booked promptly. Enjoy the 12ver.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1339359875' post='1687487'] Mains flex makes excellent speaker cable. [/quote] For musical instrument applications and half decent for home hi-fi! Did a blind (should that be 'deaf') test at one of my former jobs (we duplicated cassettes commercially and had to have a good reference system) with expensive hi-fi speaker cable, normal £1.99 per meter stuff, bell-wire and 2 core (solid) mains cable and there was nothing in it between the 2 core solid and the stuff that cost tens of £ per m!

I'm sure either this bass or an identical colour/condition bass sold on ebay a few months ago for about 50% of this asking price (I was sorely tempted to bid but iirc it was collection only).

[quote name='owen' timestamp='1339335024' post='1686948'] I picked up the TF750 that was on here recently to try one. Tragically I have not managed to plug it in yet [/quote] If you haven't plugged it in by now, you don't need it... I'll take it off you!

[quote name='Gwilym' timestamp='1339329341' post='1686840'] The class D heads I've tried all sound great, but I can't help feeling that they are missing something. I don't think it's power related or volume related. Just a certain "grunt" that I used to get from my old SWR Basic 350. Hopefully the TF will have it. [/quote] I know EXACTLY what you mean. I was discussing this with someone the other day and they are in the amplification business and they did explain the science behind this perception of less 'grunt/punch/ooomph' from switching amps when compared to amps with big toroidal transformers and there is something in it... just don't ask me to relay all of the science behind it!

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1339321712' post='1686697'] Since getting my Thunderfunk I've had 4 very good lightweight amps come and go. They just never got used enough. Now I've upgraded to the TFB750 the 550 isn't getting used at all, but I'm having trouble letting it go! These amps are addictive. [/quote] Amen! I've had some of the best light-weight amps pass through my hands while I've had the TF and not one has stayed the distance (like Gwilym I was searching for a better 'light' amp). I presently have a Warwick Hellborg preamp (which alone would have cost more then my TF) and QSC power amp combo and they are still sitting unloved while I go back to my TF. I just don't know what it is about these amps that lifts them above their peers. I use mine with the EQ flat and I tweak the timbre/enhance dials and it is all the tone control that I need. My TF will never leave me!

I bought a pukka Kubicki off ebay last year for £650... not sure that I'd spend £500 on a copy. Saying that, at first glance (possibly 2nd glance) that looks VERY like a Kubicki!

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1339186651' post='1685213'] My one still works fine, touch wood! [/quote] That's because I changed it before I sold you it Chris!

My 2nd (or is it 3rd?) dealing with Alex and a pleasure yet again. Everything that I've bought from Alex has been exactly as described and he's gone out of his way to accommodate me (he doesn't live 'that' far away but we still met at a 1/2 way location). Deal in confidence as he is a straight up guy. Just got to get my head around 5 strings after 30+ years of 4 strings!

Cheers Alex. Pleasure to meet up with you (and James) again, I know that I'll never stop being a gear 'junkie' and you've always got quality gear so I'm sure we'll meet up again... soon!

Hello and welcome. The NE bass 'Masseeeeve' grows even more... massive!

Result!

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1339069183' post='1683145'] However, I had to swap the barrel socket on my current (s/h) Warwick Streamer, it was f***ed. Probably due to straight jacks being used. [/quote] That's actually a well documented design features of Warwick basses (I love Warwicks to bits but lord knows how many jack sockets I've had to replace over the years... reflects badly on how many have passed through my hands ).

[quote name='JakeBrownBass' timestamp='1339080760' post='1683352'] If you've got the active/passive push/pull volume knob, why not just constantly have it pulled out so the bass is in passive. That way its going to sound no different to putting in a passive circuit. Also afaik the treble pot will then act as a tone control. Saves money, keeps the bass intact and gives you the option to have the active circuit should you ever want it in the future? [/quote] On a Warwick the tone controls are all active so pulling the passive knob means that you have no tone control unfortunately.

The Corvette FNA just had the 'bucker whereas the Jazzman has the added single in neck position. Only thing you can't do in passive mode is adjust tone... but tbh that's what your fingers are for!

I 'trialled' the Hellborg 2 years ago Steve during a free taster/review competition Warwick were running and at the time I found that with my piezo equipped basses it was fantastic and way different from the Thunderfunk, however with 'normal' magnetic equipped basses there wasn't a massive difference... possibly not as full sounding as the TF (we are talking subtle differences) but with a more open feel to it. I subsequently won the Hellborg (though I did have to pay £75 shipping from the States and then subsequently got clattered for import tax/duty) and I have to say that with more time to sit and trial this both live and in the house I am finding that it has got more differences from the TF than I first observed. It has a clarity, yet warmth, that I hadn't first appreciated and the way that it highlights the overtones and harmonics of the note as you move up/down/across the neck is proving to be an eye-opener. I'm not 100% that it will replace my TF for live work as the TF just comes across as a little fatter and dirtier (without either preamp being overdriven in any way. Oddly enough this is a view reflected by another BCer who has both a HB and TF750; difference is that they do recording etc and they find the HB good for this whereas I don't record these days, it's all live stuff. The QSC is a lovely pairing with the HB and it has me gravitating toward my MM Sterling whenever I do various A/B comparisons. I may see if there is a local BassBash needs organising and I'll set the two rigs up side by side.

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1339059919' post='1682933'] Get him to wire you a push/pull pot to bypass the preamp. Then you can choose active or passive on the day. You don’t have one already, do you? [/quote] Yes. [quote name='lobematt' timestamp='1339062411' post='1682973'] I've got a pull pot that activates a mid scoop, to be honest though I'm just not really a fan of active electronics any more, sounds a bit fake to me... Also the level coming out of that monster of a bass is nightmare to DI. I think I'm just gonna passify that mother. [/quote] What some folks assume to be a mid-scoop feature is actually the active/passive push/pull pot!

[quote name='skidder652003' timestamp='1339053982' post='1682821'] Just saw on the shipping label it was to be sent to Hungary! Have refunded his paypal and sent the following Hello I am sorry but I have issued you a refund as I see the item was to be sent to Hungary! I am really annoyed that not only did you not pickup the item as requested you now expect it to be couried abroad where i will have no protection from a paypal dispute if you claim the item did not arrive. The whole thing stinks of a scam and I am withdrawing the sale. I have checked with ebay and they say that as you did not collect the item and therefore stick to the terms of the auction, I am fully entitled to relist the item without any comeback. I would suggest you cancel the courier. [/quote] What an absolute joke! I'd hate to think what the guy must have been paying to courier that to Hungary!