I’ve had a few Warwick basses including a Corvette ( German made) with the jazz style pickups which was pretty cool but heavy.
The best advice is definitely try before you buy .
I’ve still got 2 Warwicks. Both RB’s and both are great to play
I’ve got a Warwick RB Corvette, and my god it sounds beautiful and clean. J/J pickups give a lovely bite and the RB preamp seems plenty versatile to me. It might not be a German made one but it felt better to me personally than those I tried that were - by which I mean if you can try them then don’t worry about what’s better on paper because that might not be better for you! I’m not a fan of the Yammy BB basses but I am still very, very keen for a TRBX.
Tbh I can’t imagine you can go wrong with either choice as long as one (or both) make you happy!
I loved my BB734A’s tone and playablility to death but they are just too heavy. Loved both of my TRBX’s too.
I know, but:
Yeah there’s a bunch of Corvette models; Corvette Standard, Corvette $$, Corvette 4 (and older), etc.
Somewhat unpopular opinion, but looks are important to me on any instrument I own. If I look at it and don’t like it, I will probably not play it much even if it produces the sound of a chorus of angels.
I guess call me shallow
Pickups and preamps are easily changed on a bass you like the look and feel of. Strings are even easier to change.
Example, I’m not super into the fretless/flatwound sound, but every time I see my GWB35 I just like seeing it, and will play it sometimes just to enjoy it for a little while. I don’t see myself really recording with it or using it in a band situation.
It’s not an unpopular opinion. Looks are everything for me
Looks count for a lot. My first bass was a Schecter CV 4 in natural finish, bought from a store going out of business, eminently practical but I was never excited to play it.
Bought a jazz and never looked back.
You can fix a lot of things with a bass. My Squier Tele P bass doesn’t stay in tune well, for $20 upgrading to Fender tuners (same set as player series). The pickup is being upgraded to address the sound and hum.
None of this is expensive, and for under $500 total I will have a great bass.
I with you on this. Lemmy agreed with it also.
Looks. Feel. Sound.
You want all three.
For me the order is:
Feel > Look >> Sound
You can easily fix the sound; stock bass tone is vastly overrated. You have far fewer options to fix the look or feel.
Good point. I just watched Geddy play with Yes and he made that Jazz Bass sound just like a Rickenbacker.
Yeah. Between technique, effects, and editing, tone is by far the most mungible quantity. I am pretty sure I could make any bass sound stellar in a recorded mix, and for quality, live matters much less than that. Live space acoustics are generally terrible in comparison to studio recording.
Hi Pam, I agree. Just pulled the trigger on a new Yamaha BB734a in Dark Coffee Burst. Yamaha instruments play like a dream and you can’t beat that 734 for an $800 bass.
It really is an amazing bass for the price.
Good for you! I still regret the day I sold my BB735
mmmm, coffee
Humming Black Coffee in Bed
Now she’s Go o one
As my mother would say….
“You have to connect on a mental and emotional level of course, but, you have to wake up and look at ‘em every single morning, so you better like what your looking at”.
Applies here too