Kev

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' post='1175451' date='Mar 25 2011, 12:17 AM']I want a 1x12 cab but there appears to be some confusion as to whether amps/cabs are included? Plus the missus will kill me![/quote] Under the scheme AFAIK they are not, however some shops do allow it.

[quote name='4 candles' post='1175219' date='Mar 24 2011, 08:57 PM']some advice. If you cant afford it now. then you cant afford it. advice 2. out of debt, out of danger advice 3. never a beggar or borrower be advice 4. a great bass player can make a cv squire sound better than a poor player with an Alembic Just my 2 pennies worth Regards Mark[/quote] Couldn't disagree with you more. I bought a £900 bass on the take it away scheme, now fully paid off and i sold it to buy my dream bass. There is no way i would have been able to do that had i not entered into that scheme,.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1174005' date='Mar 23 2011, 10:32 PM']Sue Ryder P-bass[/quote]

The bolt-on Thumbs were originally Ovangkol (early examples were walnut) however Warwick have recently changed that to Bubinga instead, and have reintroduced the Ovangkol model as a korean version to go alongside the corvette standards. Prior to this Bubinga BO's were not stock instruments. As far as i know the new Bubinga BO is replacing the german Ovangkol BO(Woo!). Be interesting to see the street price of the Korean thumb...

I don't think there is much arguement that Warwick basses second hand are the best value for money at the moment, the way the market is. On the same token, i would recommend you do NOT buy one brand new! Try before you buy. For your budget you can afford to get an older late eighties/early nineties handcrafted Warwick, which some prefer due to the neck profile and woods used (Wenge rather than the cheaper Ovangkol) amongst other things.

I wonder how many of the 'Hate it' crowd are any good at it....

iv sweeped about 80mb from mine

His Too Young To Die tone is one of my fave tones. As already said, an old streamer stage 1, trace elliot amps and 6000 metric arseloads of compression might help you on the way, but the tone is all in his fingers.

This is just awesome, i LOVE it!

[quote name='silddx' post='1147899' date='Mar 2 2011, 11:51 PM']In my time on Basschat no-one, to my knowledge, knows more about Warwicks that warwickhunt. Along with him I am a great fan of Warwicks. Hear what he says and take note. A decent 90% 74 Jazz in decent condition will fetch about twice the current value of that Thumb. Even though the Thumb is ten times the bass.[/quote] Corrected that for you If you don't like Warwicks then don't bother with that deal, the Fender deal could easily fall through. I paid £1k for mine last month and couldn't be happier! Personally i wouldn't pay £200 for an old Fender

[quote name='mcnach' post='1142913' date='Feb 26 2011, 11:46 PM']Could be, but doubt it [/quote] You should watch them live, might remove some of the doubt

[quote name='mcnach' post='1139413' date='Feb 23 2011, 11:38 PM']The Ashdown Hyperdrive (don't let the "James Lomenzo" signature scare you ) is really very very good. Around £75 new, and used £40-45. Don't trust the youtube videos. Yes, the sound on the videos is achievable, but it can do a lot more, and a lot better. I've tried a lot of pedals over the years, and this is the first one that really sounded great to me, keeping a great definition and a fat bass bit with a good distorted edge, not just a swarm of angry wasps on top of the bass sound or a farty bass. Regarding some of the others mentioned here that I have owned or still own... The MXR M80 is very good, but the distortion doesn't do subtle well. The MXR Blowtorch is very interesting, again not subtle, but great for some quasy-synth type of noises. The Digitech Bad Monkey is okay as a mild overdrive. But the Danelectro Transparent Overdrive (Cool Cat) is a similar pedal, a bit cheaper, that works substantially better. The Boss bass overdrive is... horrible. Unless you want always tons of ultra fuzzy distortion, this is not a good one. I like the Ibanez PD7, not mentioned here. It's not a great pedal, but I like its ability to add just some "metallic grit" on top of the undistorted bass using its clean setting wth the attack switch set at 1. Think of RHCP "By the way", the bit in the midle when the bass is left alone... you get a very similar sound. It does many other things, but that's the one I like best. The Digitech Bass Driver is a good substitute for the Boss overdrive, in that it gets much more useable sounds, and actually has some useable mild overdrive tones too, but it overlaps a lot with the Boss, so I prefer the Digitech. But the Ashdown Hyperdrive wins. Only problem is that it's huge. But you could use it to defend yourself if you're being mugged [/quote] Flea's 'By the way' tone you speak of was achieved using an ODB-3 Very good overdrive pedal at low-mid gain, in fact one of the best iv used. I too thought it was rubbish at first try, but after fiddling with its eq and blend you'll find its a great pedal. Also works great as a clean boost!