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Title: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Chris P. on June 13, 2013, 04:23:51 AM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS02YaLw1uM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MS02YaLw1uM
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: jumbodbassman on June 13, 2013, 05:44:26 AM: like the concept and the variances it brings. The hole needs to be addressed differently. looks unfinished.

Fodera has a sliding bridge pickup option on one of their models . It is much more limited and slides between a fender j bass 60' and 70's position of the bridge pup which IIRC is less than 3/4".
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Dave W on June 13, 2013, 08:05:33 AM: Gosh, I wonder where they Grabb(er)ed that idea? ;)

It does sound good except way down by the bridge.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: gearHed289 on June 13, 2013, 12:40:04 PM: Great looking bass, except for the headstock and the giant hole in the body. Sounds good! Nice to hear a demo by a real bass player.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Basvarken on June 13, 2013, 02:08:46 PM: It sounds fantastic. Doesn't seem to matter where the pickups are, they all sound great IMHO.
May have something to do with Mr. Pratt playing it ;-)
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: gweimer on June 13, 2013, 04:45:31 PM: Quote from: Dave W on June 13, 2013, 08:05:33 AM
Gosh, I wonder where they Grabb(er)ed that idea? ;)

My first thought was the one that Pratt mentions in the video - I remember the Armstrong basses with the sliding pickup.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: uwe on June 13, 2013, 06:45:32 PM: Quote from: Dave W on June 13, 2013, 08:05:33 AM
Gosh, I wonder where they Grabb(er)ed that idea? ;)

It does sound good except way down by the bridge.

In a vain effort to restore German engineering honor:

From the guitars his dad built, Dave, in 1959, how could you of all people have forgotten about the legendary and ahead-of-its-time Framus Hollywood 5/130 sliding Tonabnehmer E-Gitarre?

(http://blog.nz-online.de/ton/files/2011/02/framus-800x568.jpg)

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2717/4203689456_154470624c_z.jpg)

:rimshot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoBoImp0U0I
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Dave W on June 13, 2013, 10:24:43 PM: I had no idea the Krautss were that clever.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: nofi on June 14, 2013, 06:09:41 AM: i'm surprised it made it out of the factory. very amateur looking imo.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: uwe on June 14, 2013, 07:13:52 AM: Quote from: Dave W on June 13, 2013, 10:24:43 PM
I had no idea the Krautss were that clever.

Hmmmmphh!

(http://www.world-war-2-planes.com/images/go_229_prototype.jpg)
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: uwe on June 14, 2013, 07:18:06 AM: Quote from: nofi on June 14, 2013, 06:09:41 AM
i'm surprised it made it out of the factory. very amateur looking imo.

That is part of the Framus (old) charm or do mean the new one? That open cavity ist ein akquirierter Geschmack (taste), ja. I don't even like it around the Ric bridge pup.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: hieronymous on June 14, 2013, 07:51:28 AM: Quote from: jumbodbassman on June 13, 2013, 05:44:26 AM
The hole needs to be addressed differently. looks unfinished.

Quote from: nofi on June 14, 2013, 06:09:41 AM
i'm surprised it made it out of the factory. very amateur looking imo.

He actually addresses it in the video - around 2:50 he says:

"I like the idea of this big hole, makes it kind of homemade, sort of seems like someone knocked it up in their shed, which is different seems kind of Warwick seems so pristine, fabulously finished, I quite like the homemade element to it."

So he agrees with you!
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Dave W on June 14, 2013, 07:52:09 AM: With both pickups movable it's hard to avoid having an open cavity.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Highlander on June 14, 2013, 08:13:27 AM: They could have some form of magnetic grip system with a transformer and no wiring passing through...?
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Chris P. on June 14, 2013, 08:25:36 AM: I advised them the very, very, very flat Lace pickup:

http://www.lacemusic.com/USAB.php
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Dave W on June 14, 2013, 08:33:06 AM: I don't see how that could help, Ken. To cover the cavity you have to have flanges on both sides of the pickup. Easy enough to do with a single pickup as long as it's not too close to the neck or bridge The Grabber, for example. But with two pickups the flanges that face each other would have to be able to slide under/over each other when the pickups were close together and yet be long enough to cover the gap when they pickups are furthest apart. And with this much range of movement, when both pickups at their furthest apart, the flanges would have to be so long that they would go under the bridge and into the neck pocket area; otherwise, when the two pickups are close together in the middle, both ends of the cavity would be exposed.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Highlander on June 14, 2013, 08:36:06 AM: I propose scrapping the idea altogether... any seconders...?

(there must be some neater arrangement than that "shed" job...)
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: nofi on June 14, 2013, 10:21:00 AM: you could tote a 'samich' in that hole.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: uwe on June 14, 2013, 10:35:47 AM: I find the concept of sliding pups appealing, but if truth be told I haven't seen it done better than on a Grabber. To combat the problem Dave mentioned in a two pup set-up, you might work with two separate cavities and live with the drawback that between them there might be a range where neither of them can go.

I guess the charm of the Warwick model is that you can combine the single coils to a concentrated humbucker by moving them together? But that hole is a high price to pay for it, especially given how much wood is sacrificed for it.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: 4stringer77 on June 14, 2013, 11:12:27 AM: I would have designed it with accordion style cloth on either side of the pickups, maybe with some nice embroidery that reveals a different scene or phrase depending on the position of the pickups.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: uwe on June 14, 2013, 12:28:12 PM: "...that reveals a different phrase depending on the position ..."

Oh, I get it, you mean like the Russian sailor who went to a doctor with a tatoo on his dick which read "GlonorMaSoFl". The doctor, slightly bewildered, "What does that mean, sailor?". The sailor shrugs, "Oh, it doesn't make sense that way, but in full use it reads ...

T o t h e G l o r y a n d H o n o r o f t h e M a j e s t i c S o v i e t F l e e t !"
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: 4stringer77 on June 14, 2013, 01:04:00 PM: Or a guy notices another guy at the next urinal has the same tattoo and says, "So you have a girlfriend named Wendy too?" and the man replies, "No mon, it says Welcome to Jamaica have a nice day."
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Dave W on June 14, 2013, 06:10:08 PM: :rimshot:

They'll be here all week, folks, be sure to tip your waitress and try the veal.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: ilan on June 14, 2013, 10:23:09 PM: Quote from: hieronymous on June 14, 2013, 07:51:28 AM
"makes it kind of homemade, sort of seems like someone knocked it up in their shed"
Wait for the Wishbass version.
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Basvarken on June 15, 2013, 12:43:33 AM: Quote from: Chris P. on June 14, 2013, 08:25:36 AM
I advised them the very, very, very flat Lace pickup:

Do you work as an advisor for Warwick now too? :mrgreen: :popcorn:
Title: Re: Warwick with sliding pickups for Guy Pratt
Post by: Chris P. on June 15, 2013, 07:53:35 AM: I give my free and unwanted advice to anyone, as you know.... Peter B. already is sick of all my ideas;)