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[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1331845497' post='1579919'] [size=5][sup]I use TF and Ag cabs...and they sound great. Hard to get a bad sound out of the amp..and I hardly touch the EQ.[/sup][/size] [/quote] Ditto! I'm using the 550 and a pair of DB112s I can't imagine anything better and it took me several years of trialling Neo driver loaded cabs and class D heads to arrive at the conclusion that they just didn't do it for me despite my wanting to shed as much weight as possible from my rig... I don't need to compromise with the TF/Aggies!

I've heard of folk tag welding a nut or socket on the end of the existing (knackered) socket but it would be a fine job and you'd need to ensure you didn't burn any of the headstock. It'd be interesting to know when they stopped (or which models aren't removable) doing the removable rods!

'Most' Warwick truss rods are user removable (ie no need to be thinking of taking the fingerboard off etc.) so worst case scenario you can replace the rod and they aren't mega expensive. Loads of info on the Warwick forum about the various models and how to remove them. It always amazes me how many people will just grab the chattiest Allen key and rive away at a truss rod rather than spend a little time (and only a couple £) to get the correct size key (you can get a pukka 'W' T bar but they are expensive when a good Allen key will do).

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1331758146' post='1578526'] This is a bit difficult to describe but imagine the socket 'tip' contact. The plug is inserted and the shape of the tip initially pushes the socket contact out of the way. When the plug is fully home the socket contact springs back a little bit into the 'groove' of the plug tip. The socket contact not only makes electrical contact but it also holds the plug in place. All well and good. But, over time, the socket contact may lose its 'springyness'. So, the plug is inserted and the tip pushes the socket contact out of the way as normal. but when the plug is fully inserted, the socket contact doesn't spring back far enough to make contact with the 'groove' of the plug tip - so the cable doesn't work. However, if the plug is pulled slightly out of the socket, the wider part of the plug tip again makes contact with the socket contact - then the cable works. The solution is to slightly bend the socket contact so that it sticks further out into the socket shaft and will once again make contact with the 'groove' of the plug tip when fully inserted. But if the contact has lost all springyness then a new socket is needed. [/quote] Doesn't work with the type that is generally fitted into Warwick basses as they are sealed and can't be bent back to make contact! [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-WARWICK-INPUT-STEREO-JACK-SPW50100C-1-4-6-3mm-STREAMER-THUMB-GUITAR-PART-/360441851869?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item53ec022fdd"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-WARWICK-INPUT-STEREO-JACK-SPW50100C-1-4-6-3mm-STREAMER-THUMB-GUITAR-PART-/360441851869?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item53ec022fdd[/url]

[quote name='The Bass Doc' timestamp='1331753313' post='1578385'] Possible explanation - the first (quick?) test carried out with the jack plug not pushed fully home. Just a thought. [/quote] Good point! Always best not to assume.

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331751869' post='1578349'] I'm not a Warwick user but, in fairness to them, it's pretty much a universal issue with that particular design of socket. I love then and hate them equally. [/quote] I know what you mean but honestly, the original 'W' sockets rarely last long and yet Switchcraft replacements tend to last... well I've got Switchcrafts that are now 15+ year old (conversely I once got some genuine 'W' replacements as part of a deal and I've replaced 2 out of 3 of those within a year or two). [quote name='BRANCINI' timestamp='1331752299' post='1578355'] Dunno anything about Warks, but it sounds to me like you have fitted a stereo socket and used the wrong terminal for the tip. Stereo sockets are sometimes used as a switch, ie, when you plug a mono lead in, the middle ring gets connected to the outer. Just a thought. [/quote] It does sound like it but I'd have said that if that was the case then it wouldn't have worked when he originally tested it!

[quote name='icastle' timestamp='1331741362' post='1578116'] EDIT: It's possible to damage those sockets if you overheat them whilst soldering. [/quote] +1 As a long term Warwick user, I can confirm that Warwick barrel jacks are/can be as much use as chocolate fireguards. However, as to your problem; if you have fitted a decent quality jack socket (I'll assume that it is a good quality sealed barrel type) and soldered it correctly (it has worked so I'd assume so), I'd certainly be considering whether you've appled excessive heat and/or for a prolonged period and the internal insulating spacers have deformed and are shorting out. Only you will know how much grief, if any, it gave you to fit the socket, so that may give you a clue as to if that is the problem. It isn't unheard of for brand new components to fail and that could equally be the issue. Just out of interest the end of the barrel jack isn't shorting on an internal pot/component... actually scratch that as you described that pulling the jack plug part of the way out solved it which means that it is internal to the new component.

[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1331669002' post='1576990'] Not that Howard needs any more positive feedback, but having sent him a few bits of vintage Rickenbacker/Rickenfaker/Rickalike a month or so back, I wasn't overly optimistic that the sum of the parts would add up to much. Needless to say I'm now the proud owner of a rather nice sounding - and more importantly extremely well rebuilt and set-up - 4001-alike. To be honest, there's no better way to get your bass work done; stick it in a box, send it to Howard, and hey presto, a couple of weeks latter back comes the same box with a somewhat nicer instrument inside! It's like waking up on Xmas morning! [/quote] Newcastle folklore tells of a man taking an old scratchplate screw to Howie and later that day Howie emerged from his den with a completed 60's Jazz! ...it's true I tell you!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1331388657' post='1572207'] It's the compact headstock with the strings winding on to different sides of the machine head post. Something that most likely originated with either Tune or Atlansia. [/quote] Yes I realise that the BC basses were copies of Tune etc. but wondered specifically if the OP's bass was made in the same factory as the Masons brand from the 90's?

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1331333755' post='1571712'] I'm still awaiting that call when the Galveston 12ver will be mine [/quote]

Just bought 'back' the Sadowsky that I sold to Dougal just over 2 years ago and yet again a pleasure to deal with. Dougal even had the bass delivered to the door before the bank transfer had completed! Many thanks again.

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1331239249' post='1570255'] I'll loan you a 6 string electric guitar... In a side bass related note, I was in your bit of the world on sat. Well newcastle, it's a nice place. I threatened to drag the gf into bass shops after the 50th clothes shop. Also played a 5 string yamaha round the gf's brothers, first time trying a 5 for any length of time. Or a yamaha for that matter. Anyway back on topic.... [/quote] Should have given me a shout, I'd have met you in Blake's for a coffee!

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1331225476' post='1569840'] Not forgetting the Zon Sonus came back to you John, but I picked up a Streamer from you which is quite frankly the best Warwick I've ever played! Sorry I haven't been in touch about popping down with my basses, things have been crazy at work recently with my rest days getting cancelled...feel like I've never been away from the place! [/quote] Now there's a stranger quirk! The Zon I originally sold, traded back from you, then sold again and the Warwick Ltd that you got in the trade I did originally sell then buy back from the same person!

I'm always too drunk to get those off the bottles at the end of the night... 'note to self' take them off the next morning or as you drink them and then you can sell them on ebay!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1331219521' post='1569679'] It's a GTX Bass of some description - GTX being discontinued a sub-brand of Kamen Music Corporation who also own Ovation and Hamer amongst others. [/quote] Is that the same factory that make the 'Masons' brand of basses? If not then they all have a very generic 'Bass Collection' look about them.

I've always found it a pita when using pairs of volume pots especialy when you want to turn the volume down gradually at the end of a song or to do cello style swells using the volume. Though I've never fully researched it (the blends on my active basses work just fine), wouldn't a stacked pot with the volume for each pup catered for by the top and bottom rings work fine? That way when you turn down the volume you can turn both stacked dials at once (it's how I imagined I'd wire a stack-knob Jazz with the tones on the other stack)... does that make sense?

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1331213741' post='1569493'] Of course, we are only going on looks. Some basses play like bitches but look like goddess' [/quote] Agreed because essentially looks are the only thing you can't do anything about! I've bought basses in the past that arrived and played like dogs (yes I do indeed buy basses without trying them first) but it's rare (short of a major malfunction such as twisted neck etc.) these days to find a bass that can't be 'fettled' to play well and the tone is pretty subjective any way, especially wants you get above the budget sector bass market. Added to which, a change of pups and/or electrics can make a world of difference to the tone of a bass.

[quote name='TomRichards' timestamp='1331210201' post='1569403'] So if you have the Sadowsky back, what is the Bolin/NS for? [/quote] You could equally ask, what is the Sterling (maple board)/Sterling (rosewood board)/SSI/SSI (5th Anniversary)/Ibanez AFR/Aria Sinsonidia/Parker Fly/Galveston (12 string)/Infinette/NS WAV for? They are all different 'flavours' and I pick and choose depending upon the band situation... and sometimes the colour of my shirt!

[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1331206019' post='1569295'] EDIT: * No i'm not loaning you warwick hunt! [/quote] You sure?

I sold her on a whim as another bass became available that I desired (not 'needed') more. What can I say; there are those bassists that are wedded to their bass(es) and those who can quite happily buy/sell/trade/swap and not have many qualms. I'm a mixture of the two as I have a couple of basses that I have owned for 20 years, though other basses that I'll readily sell or trade to try something 'different' (not necessarily better). I'm not going to draw too heavily on the marriage/mistress analogy as I am genuinely happily married and no other woman on earth would let me mess about with basses the way my wife does... well, except for Beedster's... Clarky's... Molan's......