Warwick RB Corvette $$ LH 5 NB TS

+ Somehow this bass looks matte black online, but it is actually a very dark moss green colour.
And it is much more beautiful in real-life. The paint feels very thin and you can feel the wood grains with your hands. Very beautiful and a very nice feel.
+ The frets have a soft nickel/gold look. Beautiful.
+ Neck feels great, very smooth

- Fret-buzzing above 10th fret, but not on all strings/notes. Odd. I thought: Maybe the bass needs to adjust to the climate at my home, but nothing changed.
- The stock strings did not sound new. Maybe this bass has been in the Thomann store for a while?
- The B-string disappointed me honestly. Lose feeling and bit dull.
- I tried another set of strings, and the replacing of the strings is just annoying. The strings pop out the bridge very easily and the tuners were stiff and at an angle. It took me 20-25min at least. (Usually it takes me 5-10min)
- Oh boy this bass is heavy. I weighted it: 4,6 KG. Besides that the balance feels weird. My shoulder muscles hurt after only 5min playing.. )
- Palm-muting is hard on this bass, the bridge pickup is very close to the bridge. It is very easy to accidentally to have ringing strings while trying to palm mute.

This was my first warwick 5 string bass. In terms of sound it delivers a massive well-defined low and low-mid tone which is really nice for the more aggressive genres of music. The action of the strings was set nicely, the frets were well polished etc. However there were a few flaws which made me ask thomann for a refund: When it arrived the strings were really, really old and delivered a numb deaf tone. For some reason the electronics were mirrored so that the volume knob was the last one and not the one closest to my hand (I concluded that from the warwick "all basses" manual). Thomann's description of the instrument turned out to be misleading because there was no push/pull knob on the instrument i recieved - a feature I trusted to deliver for the tone versatility.