Review Demo - Warwick RockBass Corvette Basic 8
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- Опубліковано 18 гру 2017
- Read the review: bit.ly/WarwickCorvette8
Warwick basses are known for a signature midrange growl that’s been heard on stages around the world, and for helping define the sound of such players as Norwood Fisher, 311’s P-Nut, and jazzer-turned-educator Steve Bailey. For many players, however, the upper-echelon price of a Warwick instrument built in the company’s Markneukirchen, Germany, facility is prohibitively expensive. Warwick realized this years ago, and introduced the RockBass line-manufactured in China-to bring their body styles and tone closer to the masses. Most recently, they’ve rolled out a bass that doubles the 4-string fun: the RockBass Corvette Basic 8.
Let’s ponder the merits of an 8-string bass for a moment. The concept isn’t a new one, but an octaved bass is an acquired taste for some. What are the benefits? Creativity, for one. Whether you are a 4- or 5-string player, an 8-string can push your playing in a totally different direction. If your band doesn’t have a rhythm guitarist, an 8-string bass can help fill the holes (just ask Noel Redding and Sting). And if you are an octave-pedal junkie, an 8-string bass might appeal to you since there aren’t many pedals that can truly track like the real thing.
The Corvette body design is popular in Warwick circles thanks to its blend of balance and expression that pushes past traditional body shapes. Our test model arrived finished in nirvana black-the only color available for the Basic 8. It’s a transparent-satin finish that allows just a little bit of the wood grain of the alder body to bleed through, and it’s a fitting color choice for what seems to be a bass that leans toward edgier players.
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This would be a good bass in a power trio, it would fill the sound out well.
Doug Pinnick does that with King's X, and it sounds awesome.
@@Cyclobomber Well THERE you go!
listen to 'them crooked vultures' john paul jones nails it! btw i'm here because of him
@@MrGunCity Good! Love JPJ!
...yes...using a 12-String bass :-)
As a huge Manowar and Overkill fan, I would absolutely love to own one of these, so many great songs to play on this.
(the most expensive octave pedal)
Same concept as a 12 string guitar?
Yes
Exactly! Some people think the bass equivalent to 12 string guitar is 12 string bass but that's a different animal. 12 string bass has 2 octave strings for each main string.
Now, if there is a 12 string bass based, no pun intended, on a 6 string bass then it would be like a 12 string guitar. 6 bass strings each having an octave strings next to it, but if such a thing exists I have not seen it.
It’s like using a POG without a POG
You know what gets said too much? UA-camrs saying "let's jump right into it"...
Time to play some Kings X bass riffs with that!
You need 4 more strings, tho. ;)
Gotta get some proper gain on that beast and go tom Peterson style
livingabovethe12th Darkglass👍🏻
Is that Alanis @ 3:30 or is it something else?
Where did you get that bass???
Dear santa...
Should have begun with "Jeremy".
Technically, that was a 12-string (8-string with yet another octave set) but yeah.
50 years ago i played Hangstrom and Ampeg basses with 8 string! Anyone did the same?
This sound is similar to Bajo Sexto a 12 strings bass Adding 2 higher strings, the C and the F
Do they make 10 string bass? 🤔
What kind of strings are used in this 8 string bass?
metal ones
Where can you find one of these things? I've looked all over the place.
Thomann.de
Cheap and nasty? DHGate.
How do you go about tuning that? Is each stringer like the regular EADG?
dalton lunden I believe all the strings follow the same tuning, the extra four are just an octave higher than your standard bass.
@@Packhuffer Spot on. EADG, each string an octave apart.
Yes, can also tune in 5ths for the Yes Changes sound.
@@Joetime90 Squire tuned his E and A to octaves, and the G and D to 5ths. such a unique sound!
Why don't you recommend opening the battery compartment when it's switched on? What's going to happen???
Absolutely nothing.
@@terryclouse1461 Are you sure? I mean... I'm kinda scared now. There could be like a nuclear reactor in there or something.
Or a black widow spider?
I wonder if The Romantics used an 8 string in Talking In Your Sleep?
you guys need a better lighting setup.....
Imagine using an octaver with that...
That would be about as useful as running a DI from your amp to the board. What's the point?
What is the tuning?
Standard tuning
E2 E1 A2 A1 D3 D2 G4 G3
@@langguy
Thanks
That things buzzing like a hive!
Horton hears the Who!
Tosin called, He wants his thumb back.
WARNING! I just tried this bass at 2018 NAMM - the string spacing is horrible... the pairs are spaced way too far apart! My finger tips kept slipping in between the the strings, thus not fretting properly.. I would never buy this bass unless the bridge saddles and the nut were filed to bring the string pairs MUCH closer together, like a Hamer 8 string. Come on Warwick, get it right!
I heard Rex Brown used an 8 string bass in studio for CFH recording
I think he said one time he recorded two bass tracks but one of them had piccolo strings. Dunno if that's right but it's what I heard
Horridly setup, fret buzz. Mmm
It's not the setup. If you've ever played an 8 string bass, unless you play on 55's regular it's tough to get both strings completely on the fret
Bow fm.
Tune up a little better before doing a demo.
It sounds perfectly abysmal
He looks like a knockoff ryan martinie
...or keep your decent bass and buy a sub n up for a fraction of the price and not be stuck with a faddy gimmick?
There is a huge difference in sound. Although pitch shift pedals are getting quit good, they still have a timbre to them that sounds unnatural compared to a real 8 or 12 string bass guitar. That said, if you don't have the money for this guitar, get a pitch pedal!
There's a part of me that would really like to get an 8 string bass, however, just being a hobbyist musician and rarely doing gigs probably not worth the money to get a decent 8 string, especially since it would maybe get used on 2 songs with the duo I play in. I'll probably just get a pitch shifter.
play it like a bass for gods sake
, its not a guitar to strum.
Speak up consistently, and slow down.
I think Steve Cook is good explaining things, but he lacks a lot of skill in bass to review gear IMO...
He clearly lacks
Reviewing a bass guitar only using a pick, you gotta be kidding ! ( Nothing against pick players, but using only one technique does not show the possibilities of the bass at all )
Would have solved the up picking issue.
Aurichu at 6:47 he did use his fingers.
It's a double-stringed bass. Try plucking that with you fingers, see how you sound.
I've had a bass like that and played with my fingers it works just fine...
@@gab.lab.martins damn got em
Loose the pic!
Stop this shit.
You guys need to get a bass player. A real bass player doesn't use pick...
Mosk17 Anthony Jackson uses pick a lot and he is recognized as one of the great bassist in the world.
I think real bassists and also "real musicians" use everything that can produce the sound they want from their instruments.
So there is no limitation for the way of playing bass or any instrument at all.
Chris Squire...
Well then, someone better tell Carol Kaye, Justin Chancellor, Chris Squire, Anthony Jackson etc. that they aren't real bassists.