Bass of the Week: Warwick Custom Shop Masterbuilt Corvette NT 9-String
Warwick is known for their use of Bubinga in their instruments. This week we’re checking out a bass that uses a larger canvas to show off the beautifully figured wood. Not only is the body larger, but the headstock is also larger, too.
This Custom Shop Masterbuilt Corvette NT 9-string bass has a bubinga body and a laminate neck of maple and ekanga. “The tuning is B E A D G C F A# D#,” the company explains. “The headstock has also undergone a light design refinement to be able to carry 9 machine heads and therefore also fits the especially ‘massive’ overall appearance.”
Warwick fitted the extended range instrument with custom MEC soapbar pickups with matching wood covers, active Warwick 2-way electronics with a rechargeable lithium battery, and two mini-switches for configuration of each pickup (serial, parallel, single coil operations). Hardware includes Schaller tuners, a 2-piece 3-D brass Warwick bridge, and a Dunlop Straplock system.
Watch them build the behemoth in this video:
Warwick Custom Shop Masterbuilt Corvette NT 9-String Bass Specs:
| Scale: | 34″ |
| Construction: | “Hidden” Neck-Through |
| Body: | Bubinga |
| Neck: | 9-Piece Maple neck with Ekanga veneer stripes |
| Nut: | Special designed Just-A-Nut III Brass |
| Fretboard: | Flamed Maple |
| Inlays: | Illuminated Side-Dots |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 47″ |
| Frets: | 24 Jumbo Bronze |
| Pickups: | Passive MEC Soapbar with Wooden Covers |
| Electronics: | Active Warwick 2-way electronics with rechargeable Lithium Battery |
| Controls: | Volume P/P / Balance / Treble / Bass, Two 3-way mini-switches for humbucker operation modes |
| Bridge: | Special designed 2-piece 3-D Brass Warwick Bridge |
| Tuners: | Schaller Machine Heads with Wooden Knobs |
| Hardware Color: | Black |
In his time with No Treble, Kevin has met hundreds of amazing bassists and interviewed icons like Jack Casady, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Marcus Miller, and more. He's a gigging bassist performing jazz in Northern Virginia and bluegrass with The Plate Scrapers up and down the East Coast. Kevin appreciates all genres of music, from R&B to metal and everything in between. Connect with Kevin on Facebook and check his performance schedule on his website.
