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[quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1343378705' post='1749689'] Last year I was gigging my Thumb 4 with a punk/reggae band and it didn't look or sound out of place at all. Sure it doesn't look like a Fender but it's not an outrageous shape and the body has an understated grain rather than a flashy figured top. You can wear a Thumb to any gig I reckon. [/quote] Agreed, I think the Spector and Warwick shapes are well established. The don't get that embedded in "bass culture" without a good reason.

Interesting, I can understand people not liking them because of the shape or the natural sound of an instrument but to not like all of the various Warwicks seems extreme. Any brand with character seems to polarise opinion e.g. Harley Davidson Motor Cycles Having strong characteristics is good in terms of creating a brand and catching peoples attention. I guess that is why I started this post.

lovely but a bit OTT for my tastes

What an opportunity, unfortunately your speaking to a man on a budget here and I would have to sell all my gear and take out a loan to get there. your bad! When I'm famous I'll come along to the next one. I could visit the Stern Pinball factory while I was in the US If I don't make it could you send me a nice 5 string LX once its over? A great invite..thanks!

wow thanks, thats almost worth the trip on its own. Much appreciated.

I'm off there this weekend. Anyone else going? I went last year and loved it (although in theory I'm way to old).

[quote name='Mornats' timestamp='1343261971' post='1748106'] You can try my Rockbass Corvette when it arrives! If it's anything like Overwater's Chinese-made budget basses they'll be a gnat's bits away from a proper one. [/quote] Great I'd love to! will be in touch next week sometime.

So many variations, I guess it always comes back to best to try em before you buy em. What is coming over is that they all sound quality machines.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1343180349' post='1746704'] I don't know about other Warwick basses but I heard a friend of mine playing his thumb bass recently. It has two Jazz pickups very close to the bridge so gets a very burpy Jaco Pastorious sound. It is probably a more Jazz and funk orientated tone which is a bit like marmite - you either love it or hate it. He usually plays a USA Precision which is an all rounder and the 'in your face' Thumb bass sound wasn't really appropriate for a lot of the covers his band played that night. Here's an example [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7spc7CHbT_Q&feature=related[/media] [/quote] That one eill do nicely though, as yoou say maybe not for all covers but I don't do covers so would suit me fine. If anyone has a spare one please get in touch-am not proud!

Thanks all, lots of info there. I was well impressed with the Warwick Official links. It was great to see the exctional images of one of the basses and the sound comparisons are great. My ear finds the LX and Streamer Stage ll particularly nice.

As a relatively new player I haven'y played many basses and am wondering what Warwick's actually sound like-especially those Jazz PUP's. Also what sound differences are there between the various models. Can anyone point me to a site somewhere with comparative samples? Alternatively a place near Bristol that keeps a shock of them maybe??? Any help would be appreciated. Ed

I like the way it has carrying handles built into the body, more things should be designed like that!

Yeah maybe I should go to the pub to celebrate with the money I saved (also drown my embarrassment)

OK some progress to report. By using the "passive" guitar input on my Mag anp, rather than the active and fiddling around with setting I'm much happier. I guess I just need to be more prepared to experiment and far more aware of the differences between the basses. Sorted. Thanks

Hmm I'll need to look into this and experiment a bit-I'll see how fiddling around with amp settings works first but it's more than just turning up the volume but you never know by altering the EQ etc. as well I may get there. Also I'm not ruling out the Bass Attack as it is a really subtle pedal, probably my favourite pedal in fact. Alternatively 18v as I want to keep the growl and add some teeth if you know what I mean and more head room should do that. No idea how I'll find out if the pre-amp will run on 18v other than try it as I can hardly find any info on the guitar-maybe someone on the Dean Forum can help with that, Easy things first! Thanks

Thanks, I like the sound as she has character-definatel;y a rock chick so it wouldn't be right to make her sound masculinej. I have a Hartke Bass Attack pedal pedal, that should do it. Cheers

Hi, I have a Dean bass with EMG-CS PUP's (details below), I love to play it and like the sound, which is a nice metalic growl but it just seems a bit quiet. I also own a thunderous TRB 1005 so I'm not looking to mimic that. I just want to make it more usable for rock. I was wondering if uprating the preamp was the best way forward. Specifications (assuming it is original) are here. [url="http://www.deanguitars.com/content/imagelib/basses/edgeimprov/2.htm"]http://www.deanguitars.com/content/imagelib/basses/edgeimprov/2.htm[/url] Maybe I am being too picky and should accept it as it is?? What do you think? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Never played for the last 25 years and I'm loosing my hair, cast iron proof that your onto something!

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1342614185' post='1737862'] I love Spectors. Been considering string one of mine as BEAD too. [/quote] Having the two side by side I just noticed that the later later Legend 4's are 34 inch scale and the 2004-2006 Legend 4 jazzer has 35 inch scale, which may make a slight difference. There are so many things to consider with basses as there seem loads of variations in string spacing scales etc.

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1342614185' post='1737862'] I love Spectors. Been considering string one of mine as BEAD too. [/quote] As I'm still learning, I think switching between 5 and 4 strings is good as it encourages me to think about what I play and to use different parts of the neck.