Warwick Rockbass Corvette 4 string, Burgundy Red Oil Finish

I bought this model at CME in Chicago several years ago. I was just learning bass, and I thought I wanted something that had a range of tones since I wasn't sure if I wanted something more P bass or J bass. I had to fiddle with the setup, but the just-a-nut and 3D bridge hardware made that easy. Now the string spacing, radius at the bridge, action up the neck and at the pickups are perfect for me. My instructor asked to try out my bass and said "this is nice!" When I, myself pick up another bass at a shop I don't feel like I would give up my Warwick for it.. except maybe for a couple of Rickenbockers I've met, but I'd need to sand the neck, and the Rick price tag is ~3x. I get sweaty hands and I love the satin finish on the neck. I would feel sketchy about sanding the neck of a $2k+ Rick. With some effort to set up the pickup height just right, I can probably get close to the Rick tone. The MEC pickups are on the hot end of response, so even though this is a passive bass they can produce a strong signal with a lot of variation in tones depending on how you mix the bridge and neck in, and it can be mellowed out by backing off the pickup height. I use the space between the bridge and bridge pickup to hold a piece of eggcrate foam that I cut as a dampener. The weight and straplocks make it very comfortable to play confidently with very little head dive, using a slippery seatbelt webbing backed Souldier strap. The neck is 5 piece: opposing grain flat sawn maple sides laminated to a quarter sawn maple center spine with thin contrast stripes of rosewood between make it attractive, strong, and very stable. One other small point worth mentioning: the angle of the tuners on the headstock makes tuning up very comfortable.

There’s nothing wrong with the bass it’s just... the wrong bass.It’s advertised as the double buck corvette but I got a standard streamer instead. I’m all the way in Guam so it’s not even worth returning. Oh well

Love the bass, but when it arrived it was slightly damaged, none to the actual body of the bass, but one of the knobs had came off, which was easy to put back on once I found it in the box... but the tops string was broke... so there she sits, while I wait on new strings to be delivered... Live in Guam so I guess they'll get here when they get here.

Bought a Warwick Corvette Rockbass a while back and noticed I couldn't get the action low without the strings buzzing horribly on the neck. Took it to my local guitar shop to have them take a look at it and come to find out the neck had a bump in it around the 15th fret. The luthier said there were three options- try a re-crown (which 'might' help), do a refret (which he really didn't want to do) or get a replacement neck from Warwick. Well, I contacted Warwick and they said I'd have to not only send the old neck to them (postage paid by me), but also pay them $300 and wait 6 months for a replacement. I haven't touched the bass since. Sits in the corner of my music room collecting dust. I'll never, ever buy another Warwick product.