warwickhunt

Just been into SC Newcastle and they have a used Peavey Firebass head (£199), 4x10tvx (£130) and 1x15 (£249). This all falls within your budget and I'm sure they can transport stock between stores easy enough!

[quote name='benwhiteuk' post='184382' date='Apr 24 2008, 11:08 AM']Warwickhunt...50 Warwicks?!?!?!?![/quote] Here's a tip for you if you want to have owned that many... don't have kids and get a day job Bear in mind that I got my first one 20 years ago. Funnily enough my quest for the sound I want is bringing me back to what I had 20 years ago... a Stage I though a solid state amp and 10" speakers. Funny old game bass playing

Wax it... Oh is that what that yellow stuff is for I can put my hand on my heart and say that IMHO and experience you do NOT need to wax every week, month or whatever! I tend to give my spare basses a wipe every couple of months or when I change strings (every 2 weeks! phew I wish). You don't even need to go to the trouble of giving it a proper wax if you are doing it every 2 weeks. I use the same cloth all of the time and it is impregnated with wax (best to let the cloth warm up before using it as it can go a bit stiff... fnarr) so I tend to just wipe it over my basses every now and again and every Christmas I give them an annual service; a strip down, wax and fresh battery (quite theraputic) and each bass gets a proper dab of wax at this point. My regular gigging bass gets a bit more attention (ie the string change wipe regime) but it's more out of habit than neccessity. I'm no scientist but TBH the wax is unlikely to evaporate from a bass that isn't being used and if you use your Wrawick regularly you are actually putting oils into the wood from your hands. They 'can' dry out a bit if they never get any form of care but I've received basses that have never been waxed and 'some' of them have been a bit pale coloured and slightly dry to the touch but not to the point that they crack. To give you an idea of how much wax I use, I've had up to 15 Warwicks in my possesion all at one time (and clocking on for having owned near 50) and I've yet to finish a tin of wax that I got 15 years ago, though I have started using my spare tin as the original wax is more brown than yellow To balance that I am aware of Warwick Forum members who go through a tin every couple of months... I've yet to figure out how

Cheers mate. Not thought of that one I'll give it a blast and I've got the schematic so things are looking up. I know it isn't anything major as it still works fine.

Top bloke is Dave! Schematics duly arrived, ta.

That's right up there with MarkBass for weight but trumps them in the power stakes! As you say, interesting to see a price

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Thanks anyway. I knew it was a long shot!

[quote name='Chopthebass' post='182143' date='Apr 21 2008, 07:36 PM']Ahah. I reckon you're right. Or he is the one who hooker her up![/quote] She's a 'Hooker'... looks far too nice a girl for that sort of thing ahem any chance you could get her business card?

[quote name='stevebasshead' post='182082' date='Apr 21 2008, 06:40 PM']Great gig, John, and nice to meet you in person. That's one damn fine sounding rig you have there and it's nice to see and hear a Bolin out and about in the NE (there can't be that many!) Me & my mates enjoyed ourselves, you played a good spread of material (I'd love to get a Terrorvision song into my bands set too!) and you all looked like you were enjoying yourselves. I liked your drummers gizmo too, it added some really authentic percussion sounds to the songs he used it on. Catch you again sometime, Steve.[/quote] Well thank you for the kind words Steve... pint on the bar next time I see you It's always nice to put a name to a face (even if I insisted on calling you Kev ) and invaluable to have a knowledgeable bassists view on your tone in the band mix, as it often sounds so different from a sound-check when punters are in and the band starts pumping. Drummer's Gizmo - considering we've played together for 15+ years and he's been playing for 30 years it's always a pleasure to work with him and he's not frightened to use technology! His sampler wotsit is a nice bit of kit and is much better than the obligatory cow-bell but after the 20th huge gong sound at the end of every number you feel like sticking it up his ars* Though he was more restrained on Saturday night. It's tricky getting the Newton Faulkner sample to work right as it relies on the whole band hearing it through the FOH as the singer has in-ear monitoring but it keeps us on our toes. I'll be checking out your band Diablo sometime soon and seeing how a Ricky sits in the mix! Speak soon John

Trapped on your G-string my ars*... you're clinging onto her brastrap with your fingertips like a hormonal 13 yr old, whilst members of your band and the public try to extradite the poor girl

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[quote name='cetera' post='181624' date='Apr 21 2008, 10:41 AM']True, if you liked the Warwick but not the neck then you need to check a Spector Euro/LX Warwick didn't pinch the design, they licensed it for a short time from Stuart Spector/Ned Steinberger then just stopped paying.....! I believe a settlement was reached some years ago for their illegal use of the design...[/quote] Being an owner of both designs yourself, do you find significant differences between them? I'm not doubting or querying your guidance, it's just that I had a Spector Euro a couple of years back and the neck dimensions weren't massively different to a few of my Warwicks. Main difference I found was that the early Warwicks had a smoothed/rolled fingerboard edge and the Spector was quite squared off (similar to some of the recent Warwicks that I've tried). <edit> Ooops sorry I genuinely thought you had a Wick in your collection at the minute

Nice one MB