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10-28-2012, 12:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Canyon Country, CA | | | Your favorite example of Warwick tone
I'd like to see people share their favorite recordings that really demonstrate the tone of a Warwick bass.
IMO you can't hear the sound of a Thumb bass anywhere better than Mudvayne for fretted and Obscura for fretless. In my mind those are definitive Thumb sounds.
What are your favorites? |
10-28-2012, 12:09 PM
|  | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Obscura's Cosmogenesis. Absolutely.
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10-28-2012, 02:43 PM
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Public Relations: PJB | Staff Writer: BMM, Seymour Duncan | See Bio | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Kalamazoo, MI | | | The sound that did it for me was the Thumb tone from Melvin Gibbs in the WEIGHT album from Rollins Band. It was throaty and meaty, and was the gateway into looking into the "sound of wood." |
10-28-2012, 03:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central Pa. | | | Saw a couple live Fishbone shows in Philly and had my head blown off with a live Thumb all up in it.
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10-28-2012, 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by One Bad Monkey  The sound that did it for me was the Thumb tone from Melvin Gibbs in the WEIGHT album from Rollins Band. It was throaty and meaty, and was the gateway into looking into the "sound of wood." | In retrospect, that album's been one of the more influential ones in my approach to bass playing -- both Melvin's aggressive natural tone as well as his willingness to add effects when they suit the song. |
10-28-2012, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Canyon Country, CA | | | Does anyone know a recording that has a really solid SS2 sound on it? |
10-28-2012, 03:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Australia | | | Good examples of Thumb and SS2 in action would be 311. The bass is high in the mix and not engulfed by other stuff.
Stuart Zender with Jamiroquai is also great for SS2, as is Dirk Lance with Incubus.
I do find that Streamers can be a little harder to pin down, perhaps due to different pickup configurations. |
10-28-2012, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Unrepresented In retrospect, that album's been one of the more influential ones in my approach to bass playing -- both Melvin's aggressive natural tone as well as his willingness to add effects when they suit the song. | I would agree. That, and COME IN AND BURN really inspired me. Have you heard the album, WEIGHTING? Rollins released all of the outrages and songs that didn't make the initial album, which really bordered on some free jazz at moments. Easy to see why they were cut, but both albums together give a great picture of that band. |
10-28-2012, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: (Santa Cruz) | | +1 Mudvayne Thumb tone!
+1 Dirk Lance Incubus!
Check out "Art Metal" with Jonas Hellborg, most likely a Warwick of some sort. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKC8O...qARlOzPP3dMmOQ
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10-31-2012, 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by socialleper Does anyone know a recording that has a really solid SS2 sound on it? | also check "One Minute Silence" bass tone on the 2 last albums, "one Lie Fits all" (best sound I think), and "Buy Now... Save later..." (cleaner sound than one lie fits all)... These convinced me to buy my SSII... |
10-31-2012, 07:22 PM
|  | Moderator Moderator | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Fargo, ND | | | P-Nut's tone has always been one of my favorites (and probably what turned me on to Warwick basses way back in the day).
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11-01-2012, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by JP Morin also check "One Minute Silence" bass tone on the 2 last albums, "one Lie Fits all" (best sound I think), and "Buy Now... Save later..." (cleaner sound than one lie fits all)... These convinced me to buy my SSII... | I've never heard of this band, I'll have to check it out. |
11-01-2012, 01:00 PM
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11-03-2012, 12:19 PM
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11-03-2012, 01:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Central Pa. | | Just was going over some old Dirk tones and this older Incubus tune although not one of my favorites nails the open but full thick tone of a Streamer 2. Makes me smile and reach for the closest Warwick in the room... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJdPMPvpKfw
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11-03-2012, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by JP Morin | That is some good bass tone. The lyrics and vocals are a little weak though. |
11-03-2012, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Joshua Alexander The first three Dave Matthews Band records. | Good one! I forgot that guy used to play Warwick. I think he switched to Modulus. |
11-06-2012, 03:01 PM
| | | | How about ANYTHING played by Jack Bruce on his Warwicks? |
11-10-2012, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Indiedog How about ANYTHING played by Jack Bruce on his Warwicks? | Absolutely! For example, his tone on A Question Of Time is fantastic, in particular the tunes "Life On Earth" and "No Surrender". In fact, I think it was Bruce's sound on those two tunes that made me spend the next 22 years lusting after a Thumb to call my own. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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