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I bought one, running it through 2 Barefaced Big Baby 2's, simply awesome 😊
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Almost the same here... Bass heaven!

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Oooh sexy! Let us know how you like it once it has arrived plz.

Hi. Is shipping to the Netherlands possible? Thanks, Marco

I dig this. Shipping to NL an option?

Hello. 1994 Sonus 5 here. Awesome bass. Very articulate yet warm sounding, absolutely love it.

It has a Bartolini two band pre-amp which I use with the low end at 75% and the pickup volumes
at 100% / 80% emphasizing the neck pickup most of the time for some more growly mids.


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Cabbage upgraded.

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Practice rig. Neighbor friendly.
Neighbor unfriendly version will be posted next week. Buckle up.

Sounds to me like you want more beef/substance to your tone. Bit warmer in the mids, more buttery/fluid yet remain articulate.
I got there by using and amp with tubes in its pre and adding a good compressor. Yes it took me years before I was finally satisfied.

Your existing cab is well capable of delivering the goods.

Short answer to "Could you turn your backline down a bit?" is NO.

Band runs the show, not the soundguy.
He will not get sub lows coming off the stage.
We can haz shelving EQ cutting off any subs from the bass stack on stage.

Why do we need a 250w all valve head? Because we can and it sounds dope.

Next.

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Soooo tempted to take the Lightwave system out of my Sonus and drop in Barts. Love the Lightwave system for 'everything' except palm muting, which due to the way it works means you don't quite get the same thud as mags give.
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Shouldn't be too much trouble considering it has a "virgin" body.
And well worth it tbh. Do it!

Just finished setting the zon up to my preferences. Lowered the bridge saddles about 2mm.
How some people manage to play on action that high I really don't know...

So... Action is now nice and low, plays smooth and fast.
No truss rod so no further tweaking needed.

Loving it so far, nice fat growly sound with boatloads of substance to it.
No regrets selling the Warwick SS2 and getting this Zon instead.

This baby arrived today while I was in bed having migraine. Good thing my lady was home as well.
So yeah still a good day!

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The high end Warwicks, currently labeled custom shop products are what they are. High end basses.
Not only purchasing one costs a lot of money, service on them after the guarantee period also costs a lot of money.

The same goes for high end cars and other goods. It is nice to own a Ferrari, but any service on it in the future will set you back quite some pounds/euros/dollars. This is why only rich people drive Ferrari.

Yes even I sometimes ridicule the high prices asked for spare parts or service, but these prices come with the product you have chosen. They decide their pricing system, not you. I wouldn't ever buy a new Warwick custom shop product as I do not ever want to spend more then approx 2k on ANY instrument. I am a weekend warrior not some rockstar millionaire.

I just think it is a shame Warwick are being portrayed the way they are by this thread. They are by no means an evil company and my experience with their customer service has been nothing short of exemplary and awesome.

After having bought a used Warwick broadneck Dolphin Pro1 fretless five string from 1991, (which by the way is on at least one Simply Red album) the removable truss rod appeared to resonate inside the neck with some notes being played. I mailed Warwick asking what could cause this problem and within half a day Hans Peter Wilfer himself replied, sending me a photograph of the silicon grease I needed to re-apply as over the years the grease must have either dried out or was whiped off the truss rod by a previous owner. I ordered a similar pack of silicon grease, applied it to the truss rod and the problem was gone. What manufacturer offers this kind of service/advice to people using 2nd hand market instruments and therefor are no customers at all? Exactly. Most would have replied "take the bass to a dealer to get a quote".

About the truss rod remark someone else made here:

Thousands of Warwicks have been manufactured and sold, and are being played without anyone ever hearing about these instruments. They simply work. Over the last five or six years I have heard/read (I'm an admin on the Warwick forum but do not work for them) about only a hand full of problems with necks and/or truss rods. That's not a lot is it? Yet they get slag. Booh!

Of course, if your neck goes bad on a standard Fender like bass you can simply purchase a brand X new neck in the aftermarket and your problem is solved. With Warwicks, and especially the neckthru models this of course is not the case.

Final words on this: Taking any problems you have with a manufacturer to forums or social media instead of solving it with that manufacturer says more about you as a person then it does about that manufacturer.

Ugh.

It broke one of the ceiling lights in the rehearsal room. I use it with an Eden D212XLT + SWR Goliath Jr. III 2x10.
So yeah, very loud indeed. Big ballsy low end as well. Gigged with it several times and it kills.

At first I had to get used to the amp, coming from a nice Trace Elliot SMX with built in dual band compressor.
This tube amp is much more responsive to nuances it revealed in a horrible way that the SMX had turned me into a lazy player.

I really love the amp now with its buttery but articulate tone. It does not colour the tone of your bass like an Ampeg does and it is very portable at 13kg.
Everything I play now sounds very lively and warm and the tone I get through this baby with my Ric 4003 is just awesome.

Problem I now face is I want my tone coming out FOH as well so I bought some kick mics that have little or no scooped mids (Sennheiser E902 and Audiotechnica ATM250) for this purpose. Of course there is also the trusty old SM57 but those sound kinda boxy to me. Might also try one of my Beyerdynamic M201's on the bass cab. I got the full stack set up at my attic for testing and deciding on which mic and mic positioning to use.

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These are awesome, especially in Olympic White!

Upgraded mine with a John East Marcus Retro01 pre and Lollar jazz pickups. Made me sell my Warwicks it is ridiculously good now and capable of passive use.

Awesome axe. Is it still there?

There is no such thing as a final version.

I used to use sansamp for the "guitar amp" side of my sound but was not satisfied with how it sounded.
So yes, I will be dragging it along. Good thing is for small gigs I can bring half the cabs along instead of all of it so it ain't so bad.

The heaviest bits are the guitar combo and Eden 2x12 bass cab. Mesa valve amp is only 13kg so very easy to lug around.

It is an oldfashioned way of having overdriven yet tight tone.
But besides that I can throw in my poly octaver in octave up mode and pretend to be playing guitar and bass at the same time.

Sounds rather RATM really.

Yah. Bi-amping is a sport.

"He's a jackass" -Obama

I genuinely feel very sad. Didn't know I was such a hopeless fanboy at age 47 until just now. R.I.P. Fish.

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Royal foggin' blood watch out. Runs parallel. Octave up "guitar" signal into small stone and Flyrig5. Other "bass" channel is TLC, VMT, Wah. Trinity reverb will be replaced with a TC Ditto looper later this week. Ownage.