Warwick Question

[Topspin]

OP; I can send you a lot of Warwick info. if you are interested. I have owned somewhere around 20. I currently have a SS1 as well. If you have Adobe Reader and can download I have some great info. Just let me know if you can.

This man definitely know his stuff. He sold me my Corvette. I've had entirely too much fun with it since then.

 

[Mark_70]

Put it in passive mode, use the bridge PU (maybe with a hint of the neck PU), roll on a bit of mid on your amp, dig in and..
GROWL away..

At least, that's how my stage I works

Regards
Mark

 

[cmprock]

I can't help you, but I want a Warwick.

I hear ya man! I've wanted one for sometime!

 

[bass10bfb]

This man definitely know his stuff. He sold me my Corvette. I've had entirely too much fun with it since then.

Glad you loved it brother. That is one I sure hated getting rid of. The Corvette models might be one of the "less expensive" Warwicks, but personally, I love them just as much as some of the more expensive ones I have owned like the Thumbs and Streamers and Jazzmans. But I loved them all. I have not met a Warwick yet that I did not like. Just some a little more than others!!!!

 

[dkelley]

Yeah I think the Streamer was intended to appeal to the P/J market, but it still has that middy purr that Warwicks do, it's a lovely sound. The Corvette is basically an active Jazz bass, but again with some of that added Warwick character.

The Thumb pretty much has two bridge pickups. Mine's a '91 with the original MEC pups and stock 2-band EQ. I never solo the rear one because it's pretty thin on its own, but there are distinct and useful sounds to be had between the mix of the two and the front pup soloed.

All the bass players I know around here talk about my bass (I do have other basses but my Thumb is by far my favourite) as being an excellent instrument to play but tonally useless to them, presumably because it doesn't do that scooped Fender sound. That's a fair comment, but I love the fact that it sounds different, and certainly not un-musical, and it really pops out in a typical band mix with no effort required. And I think it makes me play more interesting stuff, because I'm not just trying to add depth to the sound like I feel I should do with a Fender bass. The same way I play more interesting stuff when I'm playing double bass, because I think the character of the instrument is interesting in itself and it deserves to be more prominent.

Wow. Bizarre bassists to say that a streamer stage 1 is useless to them.

How can it be useless when you can solo the p and do a fair precision bass impression? Turn down the treble a lot if you need to.

I have a streamer, German, but jazzman lx 5. Most versatile bass I've owned, but always had that Warwick zing to it even in passive mode until I added a push pull passive tone cap... Now it does every fretted tone I need. But even before that it was an outstanding bass.