It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Yes its true there is not much Warwick love around these days. Funny how things are fashionable one day and out the next. But I thought I would chip in on the Warwick love. I regularly gig 3 Warwicks and have been doing since the mid 90's. I bought an '89 Thumb NT 5 string around '97 and it has been my main bass ever since. I loved it so much I had to get a 6 string version of the same vintage but fretless. Both have a very flat and fast neck (the old profile that changed later). Fantastic instruments and even some people think they are a one tone pony I could not disagree more. It responds so well with any change in both your right and left hand technique (specially right hand) and can give an amazing range of tone.
I bought a 5 string FNA Jazzman to be my main gigging bass just in case anything would happen to my 5 string Thumb. Great bass but it does not feel on par with the Thumbs
Leamington is nicer
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
My Thumb NT 4 string is my main gigging bass. Sits really well in the mix and sounds great
Necrophilia here we come.
I bought a Streamer LX 5 about twenty years ago. I'm still grateful every time I play it. Stunning range of tones, and its factory set up is still perfect. It is powerful and balanced everywhere on the fretboard, and so articulate it's almost like it's reading your mind.
I can't imagine how you could improve on it.
But it's for sale. I love the sounds, but I don't love the body shape - I'm constantly having to pull it slightly to the right because it just won't quite sit in the right place on the strap despite that phallic upper horn - and I *hate* the neck profile above about the 7th fret. It's nice at the nut end, but quickly becomes much too chunky. I thought I could get used to it, but then every time I went back to my Rickenbacker it was such a relief that in the end I decided the Warwick is not for me. It's for sale in a shop in Glasgow if anyone wants it...
About thirty years ago I had a Dolphin too - I quite liked the shape and the neck on that, but the electronics were absolutely dire, the treble control was basically just a hiss generator when it was turned up and it sounded crap with it turned down as well.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
None of my Warwick basses has its original pickups. The Corvette sports Seymour Duncan Active EQ "switch" pickups. The Streamer five string arrived with SD Phase series narrow soapbar pickups. After numerous experiments, the Streamer Pro M received the active MEC JJ pickup that it ought to have had from the beginning. (MEC Dynamic Correction passive, noise-cancelling pickups are utter shite.)