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Hello all, Thanks for your earlier recommendations and advice. I just got my first 'Wick yesterday. A '99 Thumb NT. Amazing. More on that later. (In another thread) Q: My amp (Aguilar DB39, all tube) has two inputs: active and passive. I tried both, and the Thumb sounds more "articulate" in...

After playing for a few nights on my new Corvette Proline I bought on Friday I decided that I'm ditching the MEC preamp and keeping the Active MEC pickups and wiring them in series-parallel swtich, vol, stacked vol-tone. Anyone know where to find a warwick doohicky manual so I know which...

Hello all - I have been spending some time with my old P-bass lately and am loving the "woody" tone I get from it. I love everything about my Warwick Bleached Blonde, but when I compare it to my P-bass it just seems a bit sterile. Has anyone out there experimented with passive pickups on this...

hi, just wanted to ask what can be done about - or if it is normal to have a lot of hiss from a corvette standard ash 5 passive? i've tried the support tool on the warwick website but not sure if its sending the message at all. soundmen and engineers have been going crazy with the noise...

I am new to the forum but not Warwick. My first "was" a a Fortress Flashback which I regretfully sold. I also traded off a fretless Thumb NT 5. I am happy to back into the fold with a Thumb BO 5. My question: Is anyone running their Warwick with single-coil, passive pickups and NO preamp...

Ok ok, people here already fed up with my 'shall I get active' threads such as Florin and Eberbachl should kill me for posting this thread, but I promise, this will be the last of it! :lol: This is an age old topic and debate. I am surprised on how divided the opinions are on who prefers...

Hey guys. I have a vintage THumb NT4 that currently has the two-band pre amp and EMG's in it and i have been tossing the idea around about wiring it up with a passive VVT control set up and possibly some Nordstrand or Bart PUPs. Any thoughts or ideas woulod be greatl appreciated. THanks

Who makes them? I am looking into converting my SSI from active to passive. I just don't use the preamp and love the passive tone controls. Also, when I do get the pickups, how do I setup my knobs so its Volume/Balance/Tone/Tone? Thanks.

Hi, I have just purchased a 2001 std streamer from ebay in the UK. Bass is almost perfect. I would, however. like to upgrade the electronics to active. Is this possible? If so. What is the simplest and most cost effective way of doing it. Regards, The Hamster :-)

hi all, i'm on the way to buy a passive corvette but before i wanted to know if is it possible to transform her from passive to passive /active by putting an original active configuration just like all the corvette are sold right now.. thank you all ! JEFF

So back to the Taranis....it comes with a passive MEC JM/MM setup complete with a passive pre-amp... I really like the idea of an active 3 band pre-amp though, so: 1. Is is feasable (relatively painless) to swap out the passive 2 band for an active 3 band? 2. If so, which pre-amp would be...

So I'm having a pre-amp made by Mike Pope for my Thumb NT 5, and I have to choose whether I want the preamp to accept active or passive pickups. Does anyone happen to know whether these stock MECs in my Thumb NT 5 are passive or active? I'm hoping they're passive because I'd like to...

Greetings y'all, I bagged myself a corvette fretless passive 5 the other day. Love this bass to bits but I'd like to "implant" some MEC active electronics. Has anyone any tips before I buy and install them? Are there two wires within each pick up cable? I guess all I have to do is...

is there really a point for these two seperate input jack? i see them on a lot of amp, mine as well, but is there really a point to have "-6 db" for active input when there is a gain knob? remember we're bassist, not guitarist; so gain does not equal distortation, lol

Hi, I'm looking to convert my passive Corvette to active, but I'm not sure what I need to do it. Are they kits I can buy? Is it better to fit MECs, EMGs, Bartolloni, Seymore Duncans? If so which ones, will J style ones fit? Thanks. I own: Warwick Corvette Std Passive (obviously)...

Hi does anyone know if the M-60023-09 3-band EQ with 3 pots (as fitted to the Thumb i.e. volume/pan stack, bass/treble stack, mid) can be used with passive pickups (2 MEC "dynamic correction" J pickups in a Corvette standard), or is it only for active pickups? This is the one: I can...

Hi - I have just acquired a very nice Corvette 4 Bubinga fretless, all passive, 2004 built. I'm thinking of changing the electronics to active using the MEC preamp set M60013. Having looked at the schematic on the website this looks like an easy swap. Has anyone else done this and if so...

Hello, a simple question please: if my WW is in passive mode (volume pulled), can i let my cable into the input during no using time like a passive bass? or it would even continualy use the battery? in other words: when volume pulling in passive mode, is it cutting fully off the preamp...

What is the point of the passive mode on the Thumb BO? You still need the battery for the active pickups. Thanks,

Are the Rockbass Corvette passive controls more or less the same controls as the passive Warwick models? That is, master volume, blend and tone? Or is it Volume, volume, tone? Or is it something altogether different? Just hearing there was a passive version available made me happy though, so...