DiMarco

I have been on the Warwick forum for a couple of years now and haven't seen anyone else with a five string Pro1 in there besides One fella who owns a broadneck bartolini fit pro1 from 1991. This sounds a lot less growly then the normal five string though... I owned a broadneck fretless dolphin which I flogged a couple of weeks ago. Here's some eyecandy.

Mine is a 1995 Boire + Wengé/Zebrano Pro 1 sporting MEC preamp and pickups. I also own a 1989 4str Pro1 with Bartolini pickups which sounds more modest but has that sweet Bartolini midrange which punches through the densest of mixes. This here is the current incarnation of the five string Pro1, which does sound a lot like my 1995 model. http://youtu.be/d8EqLuL8Irs

Oh the sound levels were a bit high so at some parts the audio is clipping. Sorry about that. Notice how the Dolphin keeps its growl when slapped, not many warwicks have growl in their slap tone.

Hi, first off the 5str has a regular width nut. 4str dolphins indeed have a very wide nut, 44mm. This takes a little getting used but I can assure you it isn't any problem. Now here's what a 5 string Dolphin Pro1 with MEC pickups sounds like directly into the soundcard from a D.I. box, not any EQ going on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3Z6beTinc

Hi Franck, welcome!

Warwick have been using fat 'U' shape necks from the early 2000's until 2009 I believe. Otherwise the default profile will be the slimmer 'C' shape.

Not really a chorus but I just ordered me one of these: [IMG]http://www.sweetwater.com/images/items/750/RT20-large.jpg[/IMG]

How come everyone here loves the B3 and think its really good while the demo vids on youtube of this multifx (including the official zoom vid) all sound like crap? I would like to testdrive a B3 since you're all so positive but none of the shops here seems to have them in stock... Not willing to take the plunge and ordering online on this one.

That's cool!

As a matter of fact I might try that. Thanks for the tip!

I am everywhere on the net really. Well nearly... BGF, TB, Warwick, Rickenbacker, Fender forums and ofcourse here on basschat.

The 5-er is from 1995, thus made of Boire wood with a Wengé/Zebrano laminated neck instead of the Ovangkol Warwick uses nowadays. I bought it from a german ebayer and it was in really bad shape. Polished the frets, cleaned all the wood, replaced trussrod + all hardware. The pre and pots were luckily still functioning. The bass is now like a brand new one as it obviously had been in damp storage for years and hadn't been played on a great deal at all. I don't think I will ever part with it.

One of these is in fact not a Warwick at all. Can you guess which one?

Well then you'll be happy I can haz two lolphins!

Right. Manufactured 9 weeks ago (in week 26 of 2012) here's my Jetglo beastie together with my other fourstringer. I can iz happy!

Here's my opinion. The multi effect modeling toys are nice for quickly recording ideas on your laptop computer. Real handy for this. They do however ALL kill some of your instrument's signature tone and certainly do NOT stack up to using a bunch of proper analog stompboxes plus a real tube comp. Gawd knows I have tried so many of them. Owned and own Line6, Digitech, Boss and TC Electronic multi effect and modeling units. Never used any of them in live situations. For guitar as well, the Boss GT-8 is in the bottom drawer in storage and I'm using an AMT SS-11 tube guitar preamp with a holygrail reverb (AMT stompbox with its own fx loop, how cool is that?) instead. Long story short: multi fx units are tone killers.

Seriously... I was in AWE when hooking up and kicking both the MXR M80 and EHX bass big muff after having tweaked it some to work well together... Organic, alive and oozing atmosphere. No loss of low end, tons of feedback (the good kind) and endless sustain. Anyone else noticed a fuzz pedal suddenly falls into place when you feed it with a little bit of distortion?

[quote name='Warwick_Official' timestamp='1346165377' post='1785969'] Warwick has been using MEC pickups as standard on all basses since 1988! Please let me know if you have any questions or if I can assist in any way. Thanks! [/quote] This is not true for all models. The twinjazz wasn't developed until 1990 so dolphins before 91 were standard fit with Bartolini jazz and splittable humbucker. Also there are many emg fit early models. Besides this some models that used to have two band preamps nowadays are three band which makes it an entirely different instrument imho. I am not saying the old wicks are better, just different.

Vintage Warwicks sound very different from the current ones as a long time ago they weren't using MEC but EMG and Bartolini pickups a lot. Modern ones are all growly and hifi sounding, the differences are for a great deal caused by wood types and pickup placement. Most wicks I played have a throaty, metal kinda growl going on with exception of the streamer stage I which has a huuuge palette of tones and is the allrounder of the bunch. I chose the Dolphin pro1 because most wicks lose their growl when slapping, this one keeps growling and has the beefiest n most agressive slap tone I have ever heard.

Yeah haha I spotted a nice broadneck dolphin for sale on this forum so decided to have a little chat with the owner. I ended up advising him to hold on to that [i]grande[/i] instrument... Either way this seems like a nice place to hang. TB is overcrowded so much I can't keep up with the threads there and well let's face it there is more bass stuff besides Warwick.

Thanks for the warm welcome chaps.

Hi there folks. Marco here. 44 years of age and 24 years of being a bassist in this life. Long time lover of Warwick basses, located in the Netherlands. Used to play Streamer stage 1, Thumb NT, RiC 4003, Fender Jazz and a MM signature as well. Currently owner of two Dolphin Pro1 models, just sold the third one (a fretless BN).