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Warwick Pickups

JehuJava

JehuJava

Bass Frequency Technician
Oct 15, 2002
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#1
I play a Warwick Infinity Set Neck. It is a great sounding bass, but I would like a little more lows to come out of it. Would I be able to accomplish this by swapping out the MEC pickups for EMG or Bart? I am trying to get a more modern tone but keeping the aggressiveness.

Alan
 
#2
I've been looking at picking up a Warwick for awhile now..
And so far to the Infinity SetNeck 5'er is numero uno!

However the pickups are differnt from most others.

Honestly I dont think there is an aftermarket pickup that you can 'drop in'

I would recommend Barts or Duncans.
But you most likely will have to get some work done for them.

FYI for everyone else this is what the Infinity P/U's look like.
 
#3
I play the 4 string one. I love it! It loves batteries though. Kinda wish I could disable the active eq without unplugging (like in between songs when were discussing new parts or changes).

Anyone know if there is a direct swap replacement p/u? I'd rather not route unless I knew I wouldn't be unhappy with my p/u choice.

Thanks for the photo. I should posted one myself. :smug:

Alan
 
#6
JehuJava said:
I play a Warwick Infinity Set Neck. It is a great sounding bass, but I would like a little more lows to come out of it. Would I be able to accomplish this by swapping out the MEC pickups for EMG or Bart? I am trying to get a more modern tone but keeping the aggressiveness.

Alan
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I recommend trying a different preamp first. The MECs sound very good but I feel the MEC preamp does mask the sound of the pickups, plus I think the bass frequency is centered a little high (100 Hz I think). I swapped the MEC in my Warwick with an Aguilar OBP-1 pre and it sounds great. It retains the aggressive sound of the MECs but with a cleaner signal and more usable low end. I found the low end was also big but with definition. However, there are so many other preamps to look into these days. If this route doesn't work for you, then maybe try to swap out the pickups.
 
#8
I have owned a Warwick bolt-on, and a friend has owned a
neck-through Thumb. Both seemed to be lacking something
tonally, though they were nice instruments and the Thumb
was beautiful.

Recently encountered a what I think was a bolt-on Streamer
(1 HB) with a Seymour Duncan Basslines pickup, looked like
a Music Man replacement. This was an AWESOME sounding
bass, both deep and bright, very powerful sounding, better
in my opinion than any other warwick I have heard.

That said... Aguilar pre's are very very nice, simple but voiced perfectly.
 

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