Means2nEnd
Supporting Member
SO you bought one of the new Korean Pro Corvettes? It says you can buy with active or passive pickups which did you get? The active have gold "MEC" logos. If so it matters greatly on choosing an aftermarket preamp. If its active an EMG BQC control works well with the MEC pickups I have found. I love control over the mids to me this is where the biggest differences are in controlling how it will sit in the mix. I would also highly recommend the Audere 4 band 4 knob config. Audere is by far the best highest quality preamp for the money can buy. You go on line and configure it exactly how you want. Two volumes for each pickup and a stacked bass/treble and stacked high mid/ low mid it will blow you away.
I just sold my family reserve SR5 a few months ago. The G string always sounded week and was way too close to the edge of the neck. I have had 3 SR5s from different years and they were all like this for me. I would have loved to try a HH but Im lefty and only a single bucker is available for us lefties. One thing about the SR5 single H although I did like the overall tone and slightly wider string spacing than any Warwick 5 (except a Streamer Stage 1) but I read an article in BP with Justin Chancellor of Tool. He loved his Stingray but switched to Wal because he said it wasnt fast enough. I didnt know what he meant at the time but after playing them for a few years off and on I found that in fast passages things got mushy. Notes were not as crisp and articulate as I like them to be. I use steel strings and change them often so its wasnt the strings or my amplification I have insane amp cab combos. Any of my Warwicks are fast clean and crisp biting attack full of tone of the instrument itself. I found my SR5 to sound OK but most of the tone is strings and preamp. I am also a huge Spector fan. After Warwick Im right there with Spector basses but they are equipped with EMG DC40s or the new spiltable TWs and EMG preamps and again they sound great and huge but most of the tone is electronics. I like the balance in my Warwicks of the woods coming through as well as fast articulate attack of the electronics. I think you should eventually own both variety is the spice of life .Thats why I own a bunch of Warwicks.
I just sold my family reserve SR5 a few months ago. The G string always sounded week and was way too close to the edge of the neck. I have had 3 SR5s from different years and they were all like this for me. I would have loved to try a HH but Im lefty and only a single bucker is available for us lefties. One thing about the SR5 single H although I did like the overall tone and slightly wider string spacing than any Warwick 5 (except a Streamer Stage 1) but I read an article in BP with Justin Chancellor of Tool. He loved his Stingray but switched to Wal because he said it wasnt fast enough. I didnt know what he meant at the time but after playing them for a few years off and on I found that in fast passages things got mushy. Notes were not as crisp and articulate as I like them to be. I use steel strings and change them often so its wasnt the strings or my amplification I have insane amp cab combos. Any of my Warwicks are fast clean and crisp biting attack full of tone of the instrument itself. I found my SR5 to sound OK but most of the tone is strings and preamp. I am also a huge Spector fan. After Warwick Im right there with Spector basses but they are equipped with EMG DC40s or the new spiltable TWs and EMG preamps and again they sound great and huge but most of the tone is electronics. I like the balance in my Warwicks of the woods coming through as well as fast articulate attack of the electronics. I think you should eventually own both variety is the spice of life .Thats why I own a bunch of Warwicks.
