warwickhunt

[quote name='Rumple' post='744629' date='Feb 14 2010, 10:57 AM']Not wishing to hijack the thread but roughly how much is a refinish?[/quote] Depends if you are paying for the guy spraying it, to do all of the strip down (neck, bridge, electrics etc.) and if he is having to do all of the stripping/sanding. A straight forward spray job of a solid colour onto a body blank might be £50 +paints but a professional who will be doing the full job can easily charge a couple of hundred; iirc I paid about £250 to have a NT Warwick sprayed and that was a top quality job with quite a few hours of prep.

Only a couple of miles from me but it's a 5er so no good for me. It's also got a reserve so no idea what that might be!

I don't find the colour that offensive... in fact I quite like it BUT I wouldn't be paying that for a MIJ bass!

There appears to be a glut of these for sale on eBay @ approx £475; however they are from the States. I realise you then need to factor in shipping and import taxes/duty but are they easy enough to convert over from 120v?

A sad loss of life if suicide due to taunting is the case; condolences to his family and friends.

Tbh you need to check what the cost of repair + refinish is going to cost you. A pro job is going to cost you a couple of hundred and that then pushes the total cost of bass + refin to the point where it'd cost more than just getting one in your favoured colour (assuming that they are available in that colour ). Purely from a personal point of view (and considering personal experience of refinishing basses that I ended up NOT keeping ), I'd say leave as is and use it or sell it and get the colour you wanted! Just an opinion.

[quote name='Rich' post='742974' date='Feb 12 2010, 12:16 PM']How much do they normally go for?[/quote] Oooh I'd say about £45 used... [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=76113"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=76113[/url]

[quote name='redstriper' post='743347' date='Feb 12 2010, 06:06 PM']Why ? Whoever enjoyed a gig because the bass looked pretty ?[/quote] Errr... me!

[quote name='phsycoandy' post='742843' date='Feb 12 2010, 09:50 AM']Thanks for varying advice, which is I guess what I expected. So what then for a [u]compact[/u] [u]powerful[/u] [u]easy transportable[/u] system, for a covers band. up to about £750?[/quote] Assuming you are wanting 1k-2k of power and you are looking at quality components, as opposed to stuff like Behringer (apologies to Behringer users), you can probably get 2 out of 3 for that budget but you'll have to look really hard to achieve all 3! We went for a 'used' active RCF system (a pair of 1x12 750w tops + a single 1000w bass bin) and it cost us £1750... not cheap but stunningly good! Even then the bass bin isn't a one-man carry.

I researched the Bose system a while back and even the guy who worked in the shop flogging them (I've known him many years through various Music shops) said that they were fine/good for small 'cafe' style gigs but there were far better systems out there for similar money. One consideration is that the guy also advised me that you needed a minimum of two of the Bose subs to go with each column... starts getting even pricier! In summary great if you are in a small, acoustic style band but less impressive for other environments/bands

[quote name='bubinga5' post='742592' date='Feb 11 2010, 10:14 PM']The more and more i play my CS 1970 Jazz, the more i realise its prob a bass i will never let go...[/quote] I'll quote this as a future classic!

[quote name='Delberthot' post='742350' date='Feb 11 2010, 06:22 PM']Warwickhunt was selling a couple of Peavey cabs a while back that he thought were good with bass.[/quote] You rang? I'm using a single Peavey HiSys (1x15 +Horn) cab as a rehearsal cab (stored at our rehearsal space so saves humping my Aggies) and for what it is worth as a PA cab I'd now not sell it. It makes a perfectly good bass cab and for what you can pick them up used (ie cheaper than an equivalent 'bass cab') I don't think you can go wrong. Not saying that EVERY PA cab would be ideal for bass but this 1x15 with a very healthy volume of air, will do nicely... and that's regardless of the fact that I have one going spare because it'd be cheaper for you to source one locally.

I've had the driver out of an Aggie DB112 cab. Unscrew the Aguilar badge then reinsert one of the screws leaving enough of the screwhead showing to get purchase on with a decent pair of pliers. Then pull the grill out (attached with heavy duty velcro), this method stops the implement used as a lever from deforming the edge of the cab. The drivers are as you say front mounted and easily removed. However, unless you have a blown driver why would you replace one! Don't worry if you have an amp that seems to have a higher power rating it won't do any damage and if you only have one 8 ohm cab and you feel that a 4 ohm would get the full output then it really is a false economy as you'll not get a massive amount more out of a single 4 ohm cab... all of this is just guess work as I have no idea why you want to replace the driver!

"All original"... forgive me my ignorance but when did EMG's come as original spec on these basses?

Hands up who goes to a flea market with £300 in their pocket... now keep your hand up if you would pay that amount for something you know nothing about and were buying to learn on? The bass may or may not be genuine (I can be sure of that as they are the only two options ) but the 'Flea Market' story surely has to be a load of shyte!

The listing was ended, presumably by the seller, and then relisted... identically as far as I can see.

Warwick Forum.

I was afraid that the pad might suck the bottom end out of my sound but it had no such affect and as you say it helps enormously at giving you a consistant tone regardless (almost) of venue stage/floor costruction.

[quote name='Pete Academy' post='739277' date='Feb 8 2010, 07:14 PM']They've had rave reviews, but they're almost forty quid for a 5-string set, so I'd like to know if anyone's tried them.[/quote] Have a search over on the Warwick forum as I seem to recall there were some comments regarding them not 'fitting' some basses... IIRC it was something to do with the thick gauge not fitting 'some' nuts! However, it is just a passing recollection as I'm not a fan of £40 strings and I don't own a 5 string so I may be barking up the wrong tree. <edit> [i][b]I[/b][/i] realise that nuts can be recut/reshaped but to some people it is an issue.

First glance at the pics and I was about to start ranting that those knobs aren't original... then I read to the end of his listing and he's conceded they aren't original. However, I'm not 100% convinced that the bell plate is original either. I'm fairly sure that the mirror like quality of the chrome is far shinier than I recall the original being, regardless of the fact that it's hardly been played; just my opinion though. Nice bass but reserve not met at £560 for a non-original JV?