someone effered for mi jazz bazz fmt which im selling/trading a warwick corvette 6 st!!! i never played a 6st! and never though ill play one! but this can be a chance to experiment! and i have another 77 jazz so ill have a standard fender, and a 6 warwick..... what do you thinck? ill get used to 6 strings? i have big hands, but hate those baseball bat warwick necks... is the 6 string warwick a mountrocity big neck bass? also i have a big rig with a 1x18, so ill think i can handle the low B!
I liked it. The neck was thicker front-to-back & narrower than I like, but it played very well. It had a very 'Old-School-Fender', if you'll pardon the overused expression, tone. It balanced better than any of the dozen or so Warwicks I've gone through, but it weighed, I kid you not, 12 pounds.
If you like a slim neck from front to back (as I do), I don't think you'll dig a Warwick too much. I think they sound nice and are made well, but I just could not get used to that neck. I have a Cirrus 6 and it's perfect for me. Fast and comfy neck.
i friend of mine has a corvette4 which has a very slim jazzbass-like neck, is this that ocassionally one comes out being like this?
Thick & narrow is the complete opposite of what I like- my Fender J 5 feels thick to me. That being said, the Corvette played very nicely. I sold it to help pay for a custom super-wide-ultra-flat-neck Stambaugh 6. So, I like 6 strings(the Warwick was my 2nd; the Stambaugh -3rd) & wish I could have kept the 'vette, though you may differ.
My first Warwick was a Thumb bolt-on 4- it had a pretty slim neck- their 5 & 6 string basses are, IMO, 'baseball bats'. Another point is Wenge vs Ovangkol. Many will tell you there's little or no difference, or that it's subjective, but I've never been impressed w/the Ovangkol ones.
mmn..... that is what i was fearing off..... appart for having the baseball bat curse, im not used to 6st necks, fo it would be a BIG difference
Well, try it for yourself if you can. I, for one, like my Corvette 6. The neck at the body joint gets squarish and a bit thick, bit its not so bad up to the 15th fret.
Let me be clear- on paper, the Corvette went against my 'preferences', but actually playing it- well I really dug it. A very easy playing 6, & I probably miss it more than the 2 Ken Smiths I let go. So, Dado, as Frank says- play it if you can.
the proble is that i cant play it, cause im in uruguay, and the corvette owner lives in argetina, so ill have to got trade it if im interested.....
i think ill say yes to the trade! if i dont like it, ill have more chance to sell the warwick anyway! and i think i can get used to the big neck, nothing that you cant fix with practise
I used to own a Warwick Corvette 6-string. I don't think the neck was too thick. It felt really natural for me coming from an Ibanez SR-886 which has a relatively thin neck. You should be happy with the Corvette. It's a nice bass. I only sold mine because I bought a Hanewinckel 7-string which I ended up playing exclusively. - Dave
I just remembered- I got MY Corvette in a trade, sight unseen. One more time: I was very pleased, wish I still had it. Tell us how it goes, Dado.
