Pics of your 'wicks - Let's see YOUR Warwick Basses!

[Jimmy74]

My contribution:

[bass10bfb]

WOW!!!!!!! Those are beautiful Warwicks Jimmy74!!!!! I am jealous for sure!!!!!

[Jimmy74]

Originally Posted by bass10bfb

WOW!!!!!!! Those are beautiful Warwicks Jimmy74!!!!! I am jealous for sure!!!!!

Thanks! Don't feel jealous, you can start your own collection too.

My first is the Corvette $$ SE, followed by the Thumb NT 6 and recently that closet classic '86 Streamer. Wish my skill is at par with the level of built of these wicks...

[BoobieParker]

My 07 $$

[WarwickOfficial]

Very nice Jimmy74! Thats a beautiful family of Warwick's...thanks for sharing. Enjoy!

[socialleper]

Originally Posted by Jimmy74

My contribution:

How do you like the Barts on the Corvette $$ compared to the MEC?

[Jimmy74]

Originally Posted by WarwickOfficial

Very nice Jimmy74! Thats a beautiful family of Warwick's...thanks for sharing. Enjoy!

You're welcomed Garey! Seeya around in Warwick Forum!

[Jimmy74]

Originally Posted by socialleper

How do you like the Barts on the Corvette $$ compared to the MEC?

Here's my feedback on the different types of PU I have on the various wicks..

The Bart sounded balanced, not hot. I believed they are mid output PU, as compared to those open poles MECs. I have last tried a Corvette $$ NT Ash with MECs in my local shop, but I couldn't recall the tone. But these Bart sounded just fine, plus, they look sexy with the Macassar facing. The placement of the $$ PUs and the mini-switching options forms the soul of the double buck. Well done Warwick on this!

The MECs soap bar on the NT6 sounded balanced and OPEN. They captured the natural string tone, & I remember Florin mentioned in some post that the thumb IS the bass for recording, and he is right!! The thumb with the MECs will give you equal vol of each and every string and allow you to record and do post-editing to enhance/refine your tone! (p.s.: We can end all argument about the thumb being a lousy slap machine - it is not meant to be. It is a natural finger style mid-dy beast. To slap with a hi-fi tone, you really need to lower the hi-mid all the way on your amp, not by boosting the lo and treble, just lowers the hi-mid)

Additional facts - the EMGs. WOW - what can I say, hi-output, clear and hi-fi sounding, MOST modern sounding among the 3 wicks I have!! Dry, clean to the extent of being.. sterile to some, but very punchy for all genre! Quite ironical as the 86 Streamer is the oldest among them!

Hope I am quite accurate with my review here, cos I mostly play with the D.I. of my amp to the mini mixer acting as a headphone amp, so I hear the actual tones uncolored by any speaker. Cheers!

Can anyone also enlighten me if the thumb 6 can further be configured with 2 mini switches, like a $$? Will the effort worth it? So far, there isn't a full review on the electronics of the thumb 6 SC on youtube..

[willyrep]

Just wanted to put a feeler out there to see if anyone is interested in trading their thumb 5 for my Corvette Taranis 5. It was a limited production all passive J/MM corvette with a special "textured" finish. Here's the link
FT Feeler:Warwick Taranis 5 for a Thumb 5

[ilikebass7]

My 88 thumb is a slap machine. It's a 4 string with emg pups and an mec Pre. It likes to be slapped just fine.

[Means2nEnd]

The standard MEC gold active 6 string soapbar is a simple split coil design and no cannot be wired for coil splitting. You could possibly set up for phase switching but I don't think it would add anything. The Nordstrand dual coil soap bars are what you’re looking for to set up in the same split able way. Although passive compared to the MEC pickups they are aggressive and hot. Switching from active pickups to passive will at least require switching the pots out to proper Ohms but I’m sure you know that.

The MEC dimensions are 33mm x 119 mm and the Nordstrand are 118.75mm x 32.25mm but will fit and work fine. There are many Warwicks out there with Nordys...


http://www.mec-pickups.de/modules/pr...ID=15038&cl=EN

http://www.bestbassgear.com/nordstrand-pickups.htm

[Jimmy74]

^^^ Thx Means2nEnd for the insight!

2 qns here:

1) Can I use the Nordys DC6 together with the MEC preamp?

2) Will these setup with coil splitting really offer a variety of tone palette? Since the positioning of the pickup are already so close to the bridge..

Thx!

[Means2nEnd]

Will they work with the preamp yes. But the Ohm pots that are currently in the bass are lower Ohms to accommodate the active pickup signal so at least you would want to run different pots. You can wire other pots CTS, Knoble etc... with MEC preamps. You would need 250K Linear pots for EQ (stacked bass/treble) and 250K Audio taper pots for volume. These can all be found at Bestbassgear.com Me personally would replace the preamp as well. I feel MEC, Delano, EMG are of the same type of open clear bright tone and work great with active pickups and for me the passive pickups I prefer Bartolini or Aguilar or even better the Nordstrand would be killer with their own pickups. Just a matter of opinion here.

Yes it will have a profound difference in the tone not it will be in relation to the placement of the pickups but you are able to switch essentially a humbucking pickup into separate single coil which sound completely different at any place on the body.

I have done many changes on different Warwicks of mine and even with different pickups and or preamps they still sound like Warwicks just different flavors of the same focused clear punchy tone. The guys at Nordstrand are excellent with suggestions their number is on their website they are a huge resource and any time I have called have been helpful. Guys are even now ramping up for Winter NAMM so if someone doesn’t get right back to you give it a little…FYI

[Jimmy74]

Thank you so much.

I will now decide if I can live with the stock setup. Sometimes it just a hit by GAS..

More time on skill development, don't blame the gear, as they always said.

[Means2nEnd]

I need to make a correction to my own reply as to be more specific in the Ohm ratings. 250K pots for volume if you are running volume volume yes but in systems where it’s a balance and a master volume it’s a 25K volume because it runs after the preamp. And 50K mid, treble, bass…It depends on the set up it can vary but you will need to change some out. The Warwick site is so awesome they have wiring diagrams for everything so you could follow that or whatever preamp you would switch to would have schematics there is no set standard.

[warwick07]

Love my two wicks! My 1996 dolphin and newly acquired 2007 Thumb LTD. Thanks dave2!

[WarwickOfficial]

Very nice warwick07! Both of those are quite high on my want-list...the Flamin Blonde is spectacular! Thanks for sharing, and enjoy!!

[Means2nEnd]

Killer Thumb I love that pickup configuration on my Jazzman I bet it kills!

[TechJunky]

Originally Posted by warwick07

Love my two wicks! My 1996 dolphin and newly acquired 2007 Thumb LTD. Thanks dave2!

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That's my old Flamin Blonde! Damn do I miss that bass. Play the hell out of her for me!

[zackthompson]

Here's my Corvette $$ 5. I love the tones this thing can achieve. This Is my 2nd 'wick. I have a Corvette std. Active RB. But, I'm selling it to fund this bass haha.