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08-06-2012, 01:14 PM
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Never played one.
Got one coming; should land Wednesday...
Feel free to rave about yours and post pix and sound clips and whatnot. 
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08-06-2012, 01:16 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | The middle two clips in this one are fingerstyle, and should work for me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmoKtc2JXms
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08-06-2012, 01:17 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | And Will Lee...who is none too shabby.
I've seen shabby, and he's not it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCkx5O7zUU0
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08-06-2012, 01:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hunts-Vegas, Alabama | | Don't own but have played one. Killer basses!! Great modern tone! Love the color Chef! Were I to get one it would definitely be 59 burst!!
Hey you wouldn't be interested in selling your Kawai now that you have a new one on the way would you??  |
08-06-2012, 01:24 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | | My Kawai is loooong gone. Long gone. Years ago. Neat bass, great quality, sonically not my bag.
This clips I posted sound anything but "modern," which is one of the deciding factors in my having made the purchase....
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08-06-2012, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Chef  My Kawai is loooong gone. Long gone. Years ago. Neat bass, greaat quality, sonically not my bag. | D'oh! 
Oh well.. Was worth a shot. LOL! Enjoy the new bass!!  |
08-06-2012, 01:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Northampton, UK | | | Those clips sound awesome! Hope you enjoy the bass.
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08-06-2012, 02:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Santa Cruz | | I have 2 of them, one fretless, one fretted. Fantastic instruments. I've had the fretted 24/5 almost 10 years. It's a gigging workhorse and still impresses the heck outa me every night.
I got the fretless about 5 years ago and have built up to the point where I play it equally as much as the fretted. It records beautifully, is a very expressive instrument. Here's a link to the webpage of a recent album I did with the fretless - video clip on the bottom, audio clips top left of the page. I'm really happy with the bass sound on these tracks: http://www.brucekaphan.com/pages/Bru...n-Quartet.html
Hey Chef, is that a newer or older 24/5 you've got coming? I ask because the pickups look like the wider soapbars that I have on my basses. I know that Roger recently slimmed the width of those pickups down a bit. The ones in your pic look just like mine. At any rate, they're great sounding pickups.
Despite the "Modern" designation, I find it's easy to go old-school with these basses. It's amazing how much tonal range can be covered with just hand placement, a pickup blend control, bass/treble and a VTC.
That's a fantastic looking bass and I look forward to hearing your impressions after you've spent some time with it. Congratulations! |
08-06-2012, 02:20 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | | It's older...not sure how old. I know two guys that have owned it, and the serial number is ~2500-ish IIRC...
thx for the clips, I'll listen to those!
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08-06-2012, 04:32 PM
| | | | Despite the "Modern" designation, I find it's easy to go old-school with these basses. It's amazing how much tonal range can be covered with just hand placement, a pickup blend control, bass/treble and a VTC.
That's a fantastic looking bass and I look forward to hearing your impressions after you've spent some time with it. Congratulations![/quote]
I totally agree with that statement. It's quite easy to get a great P bass sound from the modern. I recently have been getting a nice "fretless" tone out of mine by panning to the bridge and totally rolling off the treble, boosting bass 20% ish and having the VTC around 50%. But I bought the bass for the modern tone and it delivers. Very smooth bright with an aggressive low end that cuts the mix extremely well |
08-06-2012, 06:15 PM
| | | I didn't even realize that Will Lee plays an M5-24! Cool!!!
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08-06-2012, 06:17 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | | well, of course Will has his own signature model...I dont know how often he plays an M5-24
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08-06-2012, 06:22 PM
|  | Registered Aging Hipster Spector User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Charleston, SC | | | congrats on that purchase. I know you were considering an M2500 g&l. as much as I love g&l's I think you made the right decision. my next bass will be an M5-24. |
08-06-2012, 06:25 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | | I was considering the G&L, I'm curious if the re-vamped electronics would make them more my thing. The midforward, raw, lo-fi feel of the L series just isn't my thing anymore, despite having been my thing for a long time there.
But then I saw this, listened to some clips, and remembered the G&L tight string spacing and went for it.
fwiw, I still have my 1980 L1000, and 1981 L2000dFL....I've sold all my other G&L's...
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08-06-2012, 06:29 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: NY/NJ Metro Area | | | These have a very tight/barky tone. Can be a bit bright & hi-fi sounding... I usually rolled off the VTC to offset that. Overall, I never bit the bullet though.
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08-06-2012, 06:29 PM
|  | ☼ | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Marlborough, MA | | | I don't know man, Will looks and sounds bored out of his mind on this one.
- the bass looks amazing - |
08-06-2012, 08:03 PM
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Independent Contractor to Bass San Diego | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | I have two of them and they are my favorite model of all Sadowskys. That bark you hear in the first of the fingerstyle clips is what defines these basses for me. They're pretty versatile basses, but with both pickups set pretty far back, they definitely have a character that peeks through no matter what.
If you like a nice, barky, kinda growly, super jazz bass tone, you'll love it. 
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08-06-2012, 08:09 PM
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Staff Reviewer; Bass Gear Magazine Moderator | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Columbia MO | | I do!
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga I have two of them and they are my favorite model of all Sadowskys. That bark you hear in the first of the fingerstyle clips is what defines these basses for me. They're pretty versatile basses, but with both pickups set pretty far back, they definitely have a character that peeks through no matter what. If you like a nice, barky, kinda growly, super jazz bass tone, you'll love it. |
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08-06-2012, 08:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Santa Cruz | | | Muji - Those are beautiful! That white one is especially classy without the fret markers. Very nice. |
08-06-2012, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by EscapeNote | Jessica is just killer!!!!!
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