Bronze frets. Not brass.

More Warwick content please. Loving this one. Both are such killer instruments. Love my Thumb BO 5

I love Warwick too! I have a 98 Thumb nt5! No other bass sounds like a Warwick! Thanks for showing us the subtle and major differences between these models!

Your final thoughts summarized my opinions too. The Streamer is a little scooped, a sort-of Jazz bass with modern style. The Thumb is like a Stringray but more aggressive. Both sound good and, I'll admit the blind sound-off tricked me a couple times. I prefer the Streamer overall but I suspect the Thumb would sound even better for metal played with a pick. It's also gorgeous with that burled look.

Great Comparison! Thanks for doing this they both sound and look great in their own way and sound a lot different!

really good shootout! glad to have stumbled on this a year after production

Excellent vid! I thought for sure I knew which bass was the thumb but I was wrong. Really shows how looks/reputation can color our perception. Guess I know which bass I will be saving for now. Thank you.

Great demo and playing! Thanks!

Amazing basses, especially the thumb, nice playing, keep up the channel

Cool vid mate, cheers, I really want the streamer now, sounds awesome. I was tossing up between this bass and a Spector but that tone is exactly what I am after, great playing as well 🤙

You did a great job with the comparison.

Both stellar basses. I've always wanted a Thumb but this def makes it trickier to decide as they both have that incredible growl which I just can't find in other brands.

Awesome comparison!!! I have watched this video over and over again. I love Warwick’s signature tone. I played a thumb for the first time and loved it but have always had my eye on a streamer. Unfortunately I do not have a dealer close to play one or compare the two. Just trying to figure out what to buy without sacrificing that growl. Would you consider the Streamer to be a more versatile instrument/more sound applications? You also mentioned the difference being marginal between the two. Can you elaborate? Thanks again. I look forward to more of your videos!

Thank you for your work!

This just makes me want a thumb bass. My Corvette sounds very similar to your streamer however. I love both tones but holy shit nothing beats the Thumb. When you dig in you have the most precise and focused growl in the business.

sick vid! i own a streamer LX 4, thumb BO 5, custom stryker and a corvette, might have to do this type of video myself with all 4 one day! also noticed your mudvayne shirt! ryan was the reason i got my thumb, luckily i got to meet him back in 2019, played his custom 2016 fretless NT 5 and also the original 98' NT 5 from the Dig video. brought my BO 5 with me too, he signed it and played it. he was a super generous dude. had a good hour long convo with him after the STG show.

Just ordered my 3rd LX5 (sold the previous ones as well as a Thimb BO and FNA and not counting my modded Std, all 5ers). I love the feel of the body, and something you did't cover is the sound of a pick. I play with a pick most of the time, and with my fingers about 25% of the time, and with a pick I prefer the pickup placement of the Streamer over the Thumb. It's easier to warm up the attack without touching the EQ with the pickup closer to the neck. Still, excellent vid, and the blind test surprised me as I often could not hear the difference.

I know this is a old video. But I have seeing a lot of your videos. You are good at playing bass and produce great videos ❤

great vid! i’d suggest doing just the bass and drum track for the blind comparison, i noticed quite the difference in the b string that i didn’t hear before.

Good job bro great review!

I own (and love) both, i would Say the Streamer Is more versatile, balanced, and has a super even sound between the strings, while the Thumb tends to be very bright on High notes. The Thumb is also heavier on the shoulder but It has a unique tone and one the most brutal sounding low B ever. My personal preference goes to the Thumb for its tone, but if i could only have One bass i would really consider the Streamer for its versatility :)

They are similar because the pickups are the same. The slight difference in sound though is because of the difference in the relative position of pickups to strings. Thank you for the video!

I knew from the title of the video you were a metal kid at heart. Usually when younger players have a Warwick you know immediately they are into either P-Nut, Ryan Martinie (Ryknow/Ruug), Dirk Lance or Stuart Zender. However if it is a Thumb 5 string you almost definitively know there is some love of Ryknow there. Edit: Or Scale The Summit or Job The Cowboy too lol.

I have been surprised from the blind test! I thought it was the contrary. The sound is very similar. Two super basses, I prefer the shape of the streamer that is more conventional

You sir have a difficult job picking between the two, they sound amazing and I want em both 😂

Thanks for the comparison, monster playing too. I've always been interested in Thumbs because of their unique tone but kind of hesitant about the stratospheric price and alleged neck dive. This video got me thinking, what do I have in my stable that kind of sounds like a Thumb? The answer is a Dingwall D-Roc with the back two pickups in parallel and the tone rolled down a bit. Even though the D-roc's pickups are reverse split-coil alnico V, they are roughly in the same spot as a Thumb, and slanted too. The Dingwall has the same great B string punch as a Warwick due to the fanned frets and the wenge neck.

Great video. I own both as well and I think they both sound great. The streamer more versatile but the thumb has a darker low end sound with pingy highs. It's a really distinct sound thumbs give of with slapping/popping. It's almost like a computerized pingy sound. If could only have 1 it would be the streamer.

Thanks for comparison Simon. I'm here as a thumb fan but I'm actually quite surprised by the results. I thought thumb had more growling mids but i saw streamer has even more growl. The blind test totally joked me. Seems like streamer is a valid option for my playing style.

Great Mudvayne longsleeve mate! And cool playing to;]

Great comparison! I guessed the A/B blind test right - in fact, where I disagree with you is the 'degree of similarity' between the two. I thought they were like night and day, the Streamer being my favourite, and the Thumb being indistinct, getting a bit lost in the mix, even without the guitars at the end. Strange, because my expectation was the exact opposite before I started the video. How awesome would it be if you could get your hands on a Fender Geddy Lee Jazz, and compare it to a Warwick with a JJ set up... Cheers!

Awesome bass bro👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

You seem to know about quality basses for a certain kind of tone ;) What do I do when dingwall, le fay and warwicks are too expensive? I‘m looking for a quality built (including frets and all string-tension related stuff) 5 String Bass that‘s got the ZING for around 900$ (+/- 150 $). Any brand recommendations for now? Thx

I love Warwick basses as well. I've had more than a few over the years and they all have a slightly different flavor of the Warwick sound. My current favorite is my Corvette $$ 6 string.

Killer playing boss. Keep it up. Horns!

Totally awesome review of Warwick top basses. Keep up the great content and Chanel. Looking forward to more vids!!

Great video, thanks! I prefer the Thumb BO as well.

I have the honor of owning a ‘96 thumb. It is my absolute favorite bass I have ever played. Maybe not the most versatile, but damn does it cut through the mix.

Not only are you a good player but i can tell you are a good human being in general. For that ill follow

I own streamer lx but always interested in Thumb Punchy character. Thank you nice video. This is hello from Japan

Very helpful 👍🏻

I had to sell my thumb bo 5 because the string tension was way to high and l could only play it for about half an hour. Anyone else have the same problem?

I love my thumb but I always thought they gave up a lot of body in the D and absolutely in the G, in favor of growl.

92 Streamer Stage II. ❤️🙂👍

I grew up wanting a Streamer stage 2 but ended up in love with the thumb. And grabbed a 5 string and totally dig it- I’d be perfectly happy with either though. But if you want a growl and ‘alien/other worldly sound, thumb is the way to go

Thanks for this video! I have both as well. Prefer the sound of my Thumb, but Streamer is soooo much easier to play.

Great video! Does the thumb 5 neckdive much?

How has nobody said anything about the shirt? Love it.

Okay 👍🏽 buddy…. I subscribed…!!!

Warwicks are among the best sounding and nicest playing basses in the world. I have an 01' German made Corvette. Good luck with the channel.

I suppose that the growl is a characteristic of the Jazz Bass pickups and their position on the body. The Thumb 5 would have a better growl because the two pickups are so close together and their oblique angling that picks up the lower strings from a position closer towards the bridge evens out the tone across the 5 strings. The Streamer having a more traditionally spaced/positioned pair will consequently offer a fatter neck position and phasing out of the mids that produce a more significantly scooped sound when the neck and bridge pickups are blended together in parallel wiring as we get from the center panning position. What I'd like to see from Warwick as standard 5 string configurations is a PJ or PMM. The Jazzman offers some nice tonal variations, but I find it better to at least have a P on the neck and either a J or coil splittable MM on the bridge.

How about Spector basses? Tried as well?

Good job. Maybe do a Streamer LX5 vs Corvette.

I really wish I could have heard the basses all by themselves. Impossible for me to pick up the nuances in the mix..

Nice mudvayne shirt I saw them and almost got one but unfortunately sold out before the show even began. Only had small and medium

Great video and comparison. The streamer is good but I'm THUMB fun for 100%. Body shape and a rich tone are making that thumb magic.

Love the thumbs wish it was in my budget right now

Yeah, I couldn't tell which one is the Thumb in the blind test. That means I'll go buy the Thumb since it looks better.

I have a 1993 thumb and she’s amazing!

Dang, great demo! Thumb sounds better to my ears.

The big difference between these basses is the pickup placement - the Streamer will have a more varied tone as the pickups are much further apart than on the Thumb. I personally never understood why the pickup placement on a 5/6 string Thumb is different to the 4 string.. Great video.

I own a corvette, FNA jazzman and a thumb bolt on. The thumb is my favorite bass I’ve ever owned. Though Your streamer does sound awesome, thumb for days.

darkglass X and microtube 900 sound marvelous with my thumb pro. My band prefer the tone even more than with my dingwall.

It would have been interesting to compare them to a Corvette aswell

In my opinion, the Warwick Streamer is one of the most aesthetically pleasing basses on the market.

That W. Thumb is a custom modelo? Ehere did you get taht? Its look is atonishing!

As far as I can hear, streamer has a nice natural midrange character with very transparent high end that seems to fit in the mix easier on its own without EQing. Thumb is more stingray-esque with more honk to hit and more distinct top end.

On a Mix The BO is killer!! I love my 97 Streamer Pro Master

I think the real question is not how good they sound, but how much they cost? 🤔 Sweetwater is selling Warwicks now and I think the Thumb Bass 5 is overpriced at $3300. It used to be $2600 just a couple years ago when Guitar Center was selling Warwicks.

I like the Streamer for Funk and Rock more, but the Thumb was really killer on Metal \m/

I thought they were really similar. Except the low end was better on the Streamer. But then I flipped the opinion in the blind test so all in all I have no frickin' idea what I think anymore 😅

The Thumb hands down. Better note definition and more equal and less abrasive tone across the strings.

I love the gurgle of the thumb.

I think the pickup position on the the Thumb has a lot to do with how it sounds.

Mudvayne shirt is tight. Solid.

I'll choose Thumb 5. But I like both :)

the Thumb has so much character!

Great video. The thumb has such a distinct tone.

With the thumb you're playing over the top pickup. If you want to max out on growl use only the bottom pickup and play on top of it.

Thumb 5er or $$ dialed in all fucking day. I own all three pre 2008 and if I had to pick one, I'd definitely grab my $$

I like streamer more, but how will thumb sound with sh!t ton of distortion in a mix with high-gain guitars? I think, it will be way better

Streamer sounds better in my opinion. Fatter, fuller and growler.🎉

I need Triumph vs Corvette Streamer vs Corvette Thankyou

All Wicks love to be played clean through Ampeg SVT's or SVT emulator for signature bone crushing tone... Trust me, I know. 🤪

Warwick hands down tone-wise but streamer looks sexier for sure.

The Thumb is absolutely killer unique bass. The mid frequency makes it have more personality than the streamer.

Well i thought that thumb has that ideal tone, and it is still awesome, but here i see that streamer is more bright and reach tone

Streamer is 'broader' with the thumb sounding alittle rattlely and thinner. Beautiful basses except for those totally unimaginative, always black, headstocks.

All I know is when it came up funk I didn’t hear any ! Listen to some James Brown bruh 😎

Growl on the Streamer LX is like a Jazz on steroids. Much prefer it.

Gotta say, I prefer the streamer in every instance. Sits in the mix better and fills that deep dimension of the sound better. Yes, the thumb cuts, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. I prefer the bass to fit in rather than stick out.

Didn't know Tom Cruise was a bass player

Con : Thumb 5 has thin slapping tone and streamer is not as unit as thumb bass! Pro : Thumb 5 cut thru everything and has most focus tone, Streamer can do everything in stereo or live gig! I love the thumb bass but if I can only pick one bass on stage, must go with Streamer !

thumb sounds more "explosive", which is good for metal music, as I think

Streamer sits lower in the mix. At least with the setting for this vid and the backtracks, it seats more in the "i just want to hold the low end and be in the back". The thumb take the front of the stage. Both the growl and the high-end aggression will kick the guitar player back, either behind or at most in line with the bass player.

The metal just sounded like noise on either, but better on thumb

I love the thumb, they are way too expensive... I guess it's worth it tho

Honestly felt the Corvette beat the Thumb when I bought one.

sounds to me that thumb got more mid range growl which is based on pick up placement

The streamer sounds a little better but a guy can’t go wrong with either one of these basses. I have a corvette and it plays like butter with flat wounds.

The thumb sounds somewhat similar to a Ken Smith.