Recent content by warwickorrior

I bought 1971 Fender Precision Bass from a decent sellor who had owned the bass for 45 years. He said almost everything including pots and pickups is original, and indeed the numbers written on the parts of the bass indicate it was made in 1971, except for pickups. I don't think he's lying...

Really, I'm seriously interested in this bass. I was looking for 80s Streamer of Thumb while selling my 2000 Thumb. It has Barts pups and electronics on it but personally I prefer MEC. Could you tell me the weight of the bass and hard case..?

I've been looking for a vintage Warwick for a while. I found a SS ii 4 strings which was made in '89. it sells at about 1,300 dollars. 7 pieces wenge bubinga laminated neck and Afzelia body wings. Gold hardware and MEC electronics and pups... But why not EMG pickups? curious. Anyway I'm going...

Thanks for the advices! I'd better check out USB models... :)

I got a chance to get a silver face Apogee Ensemble at 200$ and am thinking of buying it. I use Macbook Pro 2012-mid which supports Firewire and did check compatibility with Catalina OS which seems Ok. I'm not a Pro musician and mainly record bass, guitar and vocals for my local band. I used...

@cxcxcx @FunkHead @The Bass Clef @RSBBass Thanks for your kind advices! So I decided to carefully rewire every parts of the bass from pickups to pots and bridge since their existing soldering works seem to be not perfectly done. If it doesn't work, then I'll go inspect pickups. Hopefully this...

Thanks for your advices! @FunkHead I checked screws and it does not touch the wire. Then sloppy soldering might be cause the problem...? It's really strange that adjusting pickup height causes the noise to come and go. Maybe it could be an indication of where problem lies. @lokikallas thanks...

If my P bass weren't strung with Tape wounds, it might not bother me that much. Whenever I happen to touch my finger on pole pieces while playing, unpleasant noise pops. Even while I put my one hand on the bridge (to ground), this noise is noticeable. So few days ago I told repair man if...

And also it would be so grateful if you show me your final wiring diagram... :)

Wow.. this thread is soooooo inspiring. Thank you for sharing all of your patient study and experiment. It wasn't easy for me to correctly understand every contents you wrote since I'm just a noob in this wiring field and I'm trying to grasp your work which show me the way I should deal with my...

Yes!! I feel so lucky to find this thread. What a precious information here. I bought Tobias Classic 5 #8xx last year and always have had feeling that something's not right with bass eq. Mine has 3 center detent Eq knobs with apparently newly changed pots (japan made Alps pots) and whenever I...

Thank you for your advice! @dreamadream99 I compared my bass to other basses which use 2 volumes and blend knob, and actually learned a lot.

Thanks for your help! @bassclef04 I tried to reach them through Instagram with no reply either. But they did answer me back literally in 5 minutes when I made a complain through Paypal. Yes! They sent me a strap, got it today which is good. happy ending. I'll give it a shot for my next strap...

Hello! I'm curious about making tone with 2 volume knobs of my Classic 5. (original TCT Pre and Bartolini pups, strung with new strings.) Normally, I play with 2 volumes all the way up, but when I try to adjust tone by turning down one of them, its tone changes dramatically only in just less...

Thanks for the pic @Robert Darby! What a beautiful bass. Certainly mine has more sloppy neck pocket, which no more bothers me. Buy I'm still struggling to get a good setup from this bass. :) is that nice black pickguard is original one? I'm trying to get a blakc pickguard instead of mine but...