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[url="https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-studio-equipment/shure-microphones/1154842602"]https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-studio-equipment/shure-microphones/1154842602[/url]

Love the F-clef inflays , GLWTS

Is this good for (opera) metal? Just kidding, GLWTS, seems like a handy unit

Thanks for explaining! I also have a love-hate feeling with the old MEC preamps. Anyway, seriously nice Thumb!

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Luke, what do the pickup switches do? humbucker/series/eq? Lovely old-school Thumb by the way

sounds ok in my studio, phew!

many thanks for the link :-)

an absolute steal. here's SoS from 1994...

[url="http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/jan94/alesismonitor1.html"]http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/jan94/alesismonitor1.html[/url]

7/10, but would question the metal credentials of some of these questions. The quiz is not really metal [i]enough[/i]

Eddie Van Halen P-bass!! (looks a bit like...)

Nice thumb

p.s. cheap replacement battery cover can be found via this link... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/198137-warwick-9v-battery-lid-wanted/page__p__1958891__hl__warwick%20battery%20compartment__fromsearch__1#entry1958891"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/198137-warwick-9v-battery-lid-wanted/page__p__1958891__hl__warwick%20battery%20compartment__fromsearch__1#entry1958891[/url]

http://www.jhs.co.uk/dealershughesandkettner.html try this....

bought a sliding 1U racktray, arrived quickly. good comms. many thanks!

I try to avoid DV247 at all times, they come across as cusomer-unfriendly. On occasion, they are the cheapest ones around, though...

Awful news. Were you selling or buying?

now £80 in a relist

beautiful instrument, but too many small strings for me

GLWTS

Good for metal?

Sorry if that's an obvious suggestion, but have you tried contacting Radial? - they are normally pretty good. Not come across with Radial boxes with issues before

Yeah it's not bad. Probably did not displace my "go-to" plugin compressors, but sounds nice on guitar/drum busses, and the ability to add the tube warmth separately is cool. I also noted the 1176 / LA2 hybrid design!

Definitely fantastic deal at £0.00

Looks a stunning example of a classic bass

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Nice comparison! I'm partial towards Spectors but all the three others are great sounding instruments. Ww was a bit of a surprise as it sounds way beefier and stronger than my Ww Thumb NT5 from '91 did. Must be the soapbars.
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I think you are right re: soapbars, IIRC pickup placement is also a bit different between the 5 and 6 models. My 1990 NT6 sounds VERY similar to this demo, even though it has different pickups.

good comparison. I think you did a great job capturing the tonal nuances of each instrument. The Warwick probably sounds the most distinctive and the Modulus the "clearest" to my ears.

would agree that muting would be more important with more strings. IMO there is also a technique adjustment when playing the E string - playing "into" the B string feels different rather than playing the E "against the pickup" on a 4 string. Pros and cons to that....

5/6 string basses may also be more "suggestive' towards floating thumb, as opposed to fixed thumb, right hand techniques (again, muting, and getting consistency of tone) - assuming it's fingerstyle of course!

this colour scheme is more attractive than the older models IMO. great compressor by the way :-), GLWTS

Apogee One/Duet would be my top picks and One has a surprisingly nice mic built in. Some of the best AD/DA converters around so it just sounds fantastic ... An older One can be had for around 100 quid on ebay (+/- for accessories), though if you want to take a line-in and use onboad mic at the same time, you'd need the newer one. The older can only do one at a time