John Schoen

May I ask why you picked the name Douggie? Here is another doggie for you.

What? Don't you remember this classic?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuWlk4xRVUI[/media]

Is that a Warmoth body? I am looking around for parts to build one myself and saw a slab body at guitarbuild.co.uk, it is considerably cheaper than Warmoth but I don't know how their quality is.

I had read that before I posted the question here. The person who wrote it was not sure of the function of the knob and the switch. The explanation from Barry Matthews' book seems more credible to me, he has done a lot of research for that book. The side shot doesn't show clearly if it is a switch or an extra jack socket, since there is no extra socket on the side of the bass it seems more feasible to me that the "switch" is in fact that extra socket.

This version of the Warwick Buzzard has it all for me. I would not dare to appear on a stage with it because I don't like to draw attention, I would just keep it at home and play it there.

The picture is a screenshot from a fragment of a TV show on "Amazing Journey - The story of The Who". I could not find any good pictures of that bass and went through my DVDs to find this. I want to build a replica with that extra knob and socket.

Want tears in your eyes? Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHcpdrx7r38

Always the pioneer, he was probably trying out a wireless system.
Thanks for explaining that third knob, the thing that I mistook for a switch would be the second jack socket then. A bit of a strange place to put it, maybe chosen because it has the least amount of work involved.

One of John Entwistle's '66 slab basses had a knob and a switch added. I have searched and found two explanations for that:
- The bass was rewired for stereo
- The bass had the tone circuit of a Gibson EB2 or Epiphone Rivoli installed for bass boost

Can anyone here tell me for certain what the functions of the knob and the switch were? I suppose the mod didn't get him the result that he wanted because I haven't seen it on his other Precisions.

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I think the Candy Apple Red looks better in the pictures on the Sweetwater site than in the Fender pictures. My mind is made up, I'll get a red one as soon as I can buy one here.

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Loving it. Does anyone know where they are being built? The Fender site isn't very helpful. Nice price.
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Mexico. You can see the MX prefix of the serial number in the picture of the back of the headstock here: [url="http://www.sweetwater.com/images/guitars/CabBassBk/MX13328362/MX13328362-serial-large.jpg"]http://www.sweetwate...erial-large.jpg[/url]

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I always thought, not 100%,  meant mountain goat or something like that, I stand corrected and yours is much better!
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Cabron is also a goat, the pejorative form stems from "wearing horns" as in "your wife sleeps with everybody".

Last year's Custom shop version was called the Cabronita Borracho. Borracho is drunk, that was the drunk little bitch.

Cabron is Spanish for bastard. The suffix "ita" makes it a small female bastard.

Fender posted a demo of the Cabronita bass. I think it sounds great.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9u9aOOiNM[/media]

Some of them seem to have very hot preamps. Someone from Ernie Ball posted a modification to fix that on Talkbass: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/sterling-music-man-sub-ray4-ray5-871370/index17.html#post13351594

There is no such thing as too much gear. Just not enough space to keep it all.:-)

I was about to bring that configuration up; Entwistle had the pickups in his Warwick Buzzards mounted like that. Not at that slight angle so maybe we even have a third variety here.

The Yamaha Attitude LTD has a P pickup in the regular position and a humbucker near the neck. I love this combination, it gives real thumping lows witout becoming too muddy.

I put an EMG 35DC pickup in mine because I didn't like the sound of the original pickup. The 35DC is active and comes with tone and volume pots and an output jack, all definite improvements over the original parts.

95% of the messages there should be on TalkBS. There are some people there that know their stuff but the overwhelming majority of the posts there seem to be made by parrots posting second hand "knowledge" as facts.

How about an Ashdown Drophead? All tubes and a 15" speaker, mine is what I think amp heaven is like.

The lightweight Gotoh tuners that I ordered arrived today. It is a very easy swap, they drop straight in. The stock tuners weighed 61 grammes each and the Gotohs only 40 grammes (including bushings). The weight saving has not cured the neckdiving completely but it has definitely improved.

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That would be very annoying indeed. Judging by the shape, I can believe that will be the case, unless the body is very heavy.
I have had a few neck heavy basses and guitars... and sooner or later they got sold.
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I bought one a couple of weeks ago and it is indeed seriously neck heavy. It can apparently be solved by fitting lightweight tuners and moving the top strap button. I have ordered Gotoh Res-O-Lites because I really want to keep this bass, the twin P Pickups sound great.

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Yea. I'm sorry but who on earth is gonna buy a playable warwick advert? It look like the w fell off the front of the building and they were short on parts. £299? who makes em? starving children?
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Paint it yellow and point the headstock to the floor: McBass.