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Great well-priced Warwick fretless with fantastic sound
Being a bassist over the last 25 years I have had only good experiences with my 4 Warwick Streamers - passive and active LX-versions, and lately (3 weeks ago) I chose to buy an active Streamer fretless 5 in the Rock Bass line. I must admit I was used to receive a bass with only minor settings needed before playing it. But this experience also occurred in this purchase. Fast delivery from Thomann and no damage during transportation.
The Streamer design is my favourite over the other electric bass series of Warwick. This fretless is not neck-heavy but is balanced around the center, where the neck joins the Carolena body. The Carolena body is a great choice for reducing weight and back problems and this Streamer was no exception. Tech-wise alle features were flawless and working from the very start. The electronics and the pickups are great - no hum, hiss or yawk gets through to the amp. As always these Streamers in the RB-line are noiseless and the MEC humbuckers delivers great sound options from warm acoustic sound to the nasal treble, Jaco-sound. The knobs and tuners works well too.
The only disappointment to this Streamer was that inside the electronics cavity you only have very little space to fix the swith of a 9V battery. In this situation you have to be extremeley careful so you do not break the welding on the pots just around the battery clip holder. I think this could have been done better. But the battery switch is normally rare to execute. This detail costs 1 star in my evaluation.
Apart from that the bass is awesome: feels great, plays great and have a good sound and active, silent circuitry.
I would consider buying it again if I needed a replacement of a fretless bass in the budget segment without missing the Warwick qualities.
The Streamer design is my favourite over the other electric bass series of Warwick. This fretless is not neck-heavy but is balanced around the center, where the neck joins the Carolena body. The Carolena body is a great choice for reducing weight and back problems and this Streamer was no exception. Tech-wise alle features were flawless and working from the very start. The electronics and the pickups are great - no hum, hiss or yawk gets through to the amp. As always these Streamers in the RB-line are noiseless and the MEC humbuckers delivers great sound options from warm acoustic sound to the nasal treble, Jaco-sound. The knobs and tuners works well too.
The only disappointment to this Streamer was that inside the electronics cavity you only have very little space to fix the swith of a 9V battery. In this situation you have to be extremeley careful so you do not break the welding on the pots just around the battery clip holder. I think this could have been done better. But the battery switch is normally rare to execute. This detail costs 1 star in my evaluation.
Apart from that the bass is awesome: feels great, plays great and have a good sound and active, silent circuitry.
I would consider buying it again if I needed a replacement of a fretless bass in the budget segment without missing the Warwick qualities.
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