Whan I was working for Warwick, I reported to HP some thumb copies. He said "I don't care, I have business to do"What if someone started copying the Thumb or Corvette shape though?
I appreciate this idea, but the Warwick Fortress One had also bad Pickups with the MECs PJ Balanced PUs. Nevertheless I kept this Bass due to its nice ergonomy and changed the pickups and electronicsIf only Rockbass would stop using the pickups on the Streamer STD, and use JJ instead... Many buy that bass because it is the cheapest. Great instrument for the money overall, but the pickups are weak.
If only Rockbass would stop using the pickups on the Streamer STD, and use JJ instead... Many buy that bass because it is the cheapest. Great instrument for the money overall, but the pickups are weak.
True dat! These pus are to weak or too special for such an entry level instrument. People will be unhappy and will make their mind about Warwick on the experience with those pus.
I will never play a rockbass. The Korean pro series already was rubbish, can't imagine wanting to go for any chinese W lookalikes (which is what rockbasses are).
I've heard this about people buying Epiphone as an entry level into Gibson (Epi pickups sound "stuffed" compared to Gibson's). But your theory doesn't really seem to apply to Epiphone. Although, people do seem ready to upgrade an Epiphone with better pickups / tuners in a effort to approach the level of a Gibson.
Oh yeah. My brother has several Eastmans. Loves 'em. If I'm not mistaken, you can build a custom order on their site, for pretty cheap. Comparatively at least.
From what I've seen, a top of the range Eastman runs about USD 2500. Completely made by hand, no CNC robots.