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Thanks for taking us on the journey - much appreciated. Looks like Mr Fret Nation may be correct - not that surprising as he had about 10 guesses first so was going to land on the right area at one point. Not a fan of undefeatable limiters myself - struggling to think of a overall benefit for it in a pickup as well really, unless its a sort of side effect of what gives the pickup their voicing. I've for sure found it a pain in the backside on an amp. It's a quandry - pretty sure that there would be times I'd be digging in hard on the B string at times if I had one of these.......

Wonderful. Next step to lower the pickups?

Prestwich have an annual Tribute Band Festival - always some good names on these:

Pearl Scam is my favourite!!

I'd give them one more go - just to be sure all around. I've done this in the past - I'd ask that we would record 2 or 3 of the songs and then listen back to them together straightaway. You then get a feeling for if anyone else sees any issues, and any recognition of things that are a bit patchy and need fixing. If there is some acknowledgement that there is work to be done, depending on how much time and effort you want to invest it may be worth persevering. If everybody else thinks everything is fantastic - when it clearly isn't - then walk.

Ahh, bad news. There is a Bleached Blonde Thumb actually that is/was in the UK with dodgy truss rod too. So, yeah, not unheard of but appears to appear less often on Thumbs than on other Warwick models.

Good point!!! - seen many of the truss issue basses - had a few myself. I cant recall any of them being Thumbs, so anecdotally fully agree that this would be much less common on Thumbs.

Great - thanks for the effort on this. This just gets more and more interesting.

Nice! - on this "onboard limiter" - can you replicate this? Play softly, then louder and louder until the limiter kicks in?

Interesting, looking forward to hearing back. If this dealers theory is correct then less chance you need to worry about pickup placement but more about pickup height.

It really is a shambles. I don't think there has been anything official released by Spector/ Fishman. Just the 5s reported on, stringing a 4 as BEAD would be a good test.

Ahh - that guy, - my opinion below....... A Dingwall / Spector / Warwick .....Sales agent in the USA, lets says its not unreasonable to say motive on creating and protecting sales. Respected - no respect from me I'm afraid - quite the opposite for me I'm sorry to say - given their comments that were made, amended and since deleted. There are dissenting voices on their (his) post already online - will screenshot a couple below. I saw comments on this theme beforehand on the thread and sound examples the guy reference above put up and deleted. It smacks of trying to create a story backwards to fit a narrative to me. Once these basses are available freely in the UK - I will purchase online, test thoroughly on the basis that I can return under distance selling regulations. Once that's done I'll report back.

The Fender headstock shape is copyrighted

Bought some Tuners from Mick, as ever a great deal. Top man, would be more than happy to deal with again.

That's an NS2000 - nice bass, shouldn't be a Tonepump Jnr in there - can't see where the comment is that its a Tonepump Jnr is on the ad actually.

That's too high on value. Assuming it's stock then if it has a Tonepump Jnr it won't be an NS2000. The NS2000s came with an EMG preamp or a K Haz. Sounds like this one is one of the newer NT legends.