Wheres the growl

I don't see why there shouldn't be growl by the bucketloads. Are you making sure that your bridge pickup has more balence/volume than the J? In my experience with H/S basses, you've got to make sure that the humbucker has the most volume to achieve soem decent growl, the H and the S blended together equally creates a nice smooth sound.

 

Growl comes from the combination of the right bass (which you have) and the right technique. Try attacking the strings more aggressively and nearer to the bridge. The growl should come through regardless of the amp you're using and you'd have to try pretty hard to dial it out with the onboard pre.

 

...in your fingers...

 

Sorry but I disagree. There is a large difference between 'twang' and 'growl'. With the wrong settings, playing closer to the bridge can get you nothing put a trebley twang, rather than a nice solid growl. Getting that nice growl is both a combination of technique (playing closer to the bridge, more agressive, stuff you mentioned) and EQing, and the bass and amp. All EQ'd and done correctly and you can get yourself a nice thunderous growl, I wish it were as simple as just having a humbucker and playing near the bridge, but it really isn't.

 

Try not to boost so much low-mids and lows that's why you get a boomy sound. You don't need much lows to get growl. Try to boost more the mids and highs and use more the bridge pickup.

 

Cliche but true.

 

( unless your like me and own an epiphone T-bird, that thing is SOOOO growly I hate it and love it all in the same breath )

 

New strings would help.

 

You want growl? Get a Fender Jazz (or Stingray)!

 

No way dude.

 

Get a Thumb NT... thats the most warwick sounding of all the warwick basses.

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i play a darklord tuned normally, and it growls... a bit similar to ryan martinie.

so you might wanna try those MEC gold (active) pups... i noticed both your wicks have passive PUPs (MEC silver).

 

I find Jazz's growl just as much as Rays - just in a different way

 

Please, no pictures of EB/MM in this thread, don't you know they are mortal enemies with Warwicks? You will start a flame war!

 

Try raising your pickups. If they're too low, you'll get a more woofy sound.

 

Indeed, raising the pickups on my Warwick Corvette $$ makes a huge difference to the amount of growl.

 

raise the pickups, play over the neck pickup .. that's where I found I got most of the growl out of my corvette.

I still ended up getting a thumb NT which out of the box had a TON more growl than the corvette that I was always trying to toy with .. the Thumb had it out of the box.

 

It might not help much, but here goes; If growl is what you truly want, try switching to an Epiphone Thunderbird IV, or, if you're into modding, try out some EMG humbuckers.

 

LOL! Or a Stingray! Anything else are just imitators!

 

Raise the pickups....

Stay away from other basses... You wanted a warwick, keep it.