Warwick Stuart Zender Signature Bass: Relive The Late 90s With Gearwire
While "Stuart Zender" might not be as much of a household name as, say "Jamiroquai," he was, in fact, the original bassist for Jamiroquai, having toured and recorded with them through their height in the 1990s. But lets not talk about that. Lets talk about the Warwick Stuart Zender Signature bass.
The Stuart Zender represents a cool new body shape for Warwick that was designed by the bassist himself; shame Warwick didn't include those nifty LED fret markers from Zender's Streamer Stage II, though.
FREDDY VILLANO: My name is Freddy Villano. I work in Artist Relations for Warwick Basses and Framus Guitars, and I'm going to over a couple of signature model basses for you guys that we are introducing in 2009.
This is the Stuart Zender Model Signature Bass. Stuart Zender is famous for playing with Jamiroquai in the 90s, earned a Grammy doing so. One of the first things I'll go over that is central to most Warwick Basses is the patented Warwick two-piece bridge. we also have Warwick security locks, Warwick tuners, and the Just-A-Nut 3. Those components are common to about 95% of Warwick Basses.
This particular model is a new design for us in 2009. So, it's a new body shape. WE haven't introduced this body shape before. It's something that Stuart Zender came up with for us and we're very happy with it. It's a pretty light bass because it's mostly made out of ash. As you can see from the back here, this is an ash body with a AAA French flame maple top.
The pickups are a P-J configuration made by MEC Electronics, something that is also pretty common to Warwick Basses as you'll see in a moment, not all Warwick Basses, and the controls are pretty simple. We have a three-band active EQ with pickup selector, volume, bass, middle, treble, gold hardware, and the finish is Black Nirvana.
[OWEN O'MALLEY IMPROVISING WITH THE WARWICK STUART ZENDER MODEL SIGNATURE BASS]
face melter
shredding
sounds fucking awful looks
sounds fucking awful looks fuckin stunnin
To be fair...
We were running it direct into the camera through only a Radial JDI. And I didn't really take time to explore the EQ. Trade Shows are not the best places to audition tone, that's for sure.
Terrible playing!
just awful
really?
what kind of music with bass in it do you listen to? also, this is at NAMM, which is not the best environment for demoing a bass.
Agreed
totally sloppy
does sound awful
does sound awful
To be fair, playing the
To be fair, playing the Alright bassline that sloppy is a sin. I guess it was a just about below average rendition of Use the Force...
BASS FAIL
;-P
Disagree
I played both horribly.
So.. How's the Neck ?
So.. How's the Neck ?
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