.....this bass outshines every bass I've ever owned over the past 60 years, including my Marleaux Consat & Dingwall Combustion.
I'm talking about this Warwick Star 5 string I received last week.
Having had a Framus Star in 1962 , nostalgia & GAS were eating away at me, then when
I accidentally discovered there was now a 5 string, I just knew I had to get one.
When I first plugged it in, I was shocked at how much better it sounded than I had expected,
after all, a cheap used Chinese bass could not be better than my Marleaux, right ?
Well, as usual the previous owner had not optimised the set up & after 6 days of constant
tweaking it sounds incredible. The low B is tight & growls. The other strings roar & hit hard
in a musical way with a pleasant hint of piano tones. The G string has a clarity & sparkle without the typical harshness, that I spend my life trying to tame on most other basses. At this point I'm thinking, is it the MEC pickups or is it the Thomastic Infeld Superalloy nickel rounds, that it came with ? At some point I shall have to do a revealing string swap to find out & try Infelds on the Marleaux.
Finish, build quality & hardware are excellent. Neck playability is great to work with, although I never get hung up on neck shapes & dimensions. The only drawback for some nit pickers would be the neck droop, typical of this classic body shape. A wide strap with a roughish
suede backing cured that & strange as it may seem, I discovered, the judicious use of the left hand has a remarkable effect on the neck angle !
So all in all & all things considered, at the end of the day, I am one ecstatic old plonker of phat strings.
I'm talking about this Warwick Star 5 string I received last week.
Having had a Framus Star in 1962 , nostalgia & GAS were eating away at me, then when
I accidentally discovered there was now a 5 string, I just knew I had to get one.
When I first plugged it in, I was shocked at how much better it sounded than I had expected,
after all, a cheap used Chinese bass could not be better than my Marleaux, right ?
Well, as usual the previous owner had not optimised the set up & after 6 days of constant
tweaking it sounds incredible. The low B is tight & growls. The other strings roar & hit hard
in a musical way with a pleasant hint of piano tones. The G string has a clarity & sparkle without the typical harshness, that I spend my life trying to tame on most other basses. At this point I'm thinking, is it the MEC pickups or is it the Thomastic Infeld Superalloy nickel rounds, that it came with ? At some point I shall have to do a revealing string swap to find out & try Infelds on the Marleaux.
Finish, build quality & hardware are excellent. Neck playability is great to work with, although I never get hung up on neck shapes & dimensions. The only drawback for some nit pickers would be the neck droop, typical of this classic body shape. A wide strap with a roughish
suede backing cured that & strange as it may seem, I discovered, the judicious use of the left hand has a remarkable effect on the neck angle !
So all in all & all things considered, at the end of the day, I am one ecstatic old plonker of phat strings.
