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The Incase slim is a little shorter and narrower than the Portabag. I like the size of the Incase but it doesn't have the room inside that the Portabag does...
Peace,
T
It is, by probably 1-2 inches... if that'd be enough. I just held mine up and eyeballed them.
I can't hold this in any longer. I'm changing the direction to my new NYC J bass, which is supposed to arrive tomorrow according to FedEx.
I can hardly wait....I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight at all. This is my FIRST Sadowsky and I'm going absolutely nuts here. It will arrive at my work and get delivered to my office by my receiving guys......and then I won't be able to touch it until a "break" or lunch time for fear of the boss walking in, which he does frequently! LOL! I'm completely buried at work on top it all. ARGHHH!
But, I AM SOOOOO ECSTATIC!!!
Sweet! Damn, 'Cat, I checked out your profile and you have some sweet basses. This one will be the icing on a very tasty cake! Congrats...
I know the feeling about not sleeping. When I ordered mine (Metro UV70) from Bass Central, I had a tough time sleeping too.
I would say that is about right if my memory serves. I let my Slim go with a bass that I sold about a month ago but I remember it being visually shorter than the Portabag. Side by side you get the sense the Slim is just a bit more form fitted and flatter then the Portabag too. I prefer the Portabag over anything out there right now but it is a bummer that it won't fit the Bass safe. I use a golf club case when I fly with no problems so far....(knock on wood!)
Peace,
T
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I know many of you are going to disagree with me here, but how your solid-body electric bass sounds acoustically is unimportant almost to the point of being totally irrelevant. Either your bass sounds awesome on the gig or it doesn't. That's the test it needs to pass. "Clanky" unplugged? Who cares?
Per the above posts, I agree that the poster who is agonizing over his new Sadowsky without ever plugging it in needs to, well, plug it in!
That being said, I've never found an EB that I didn't like acoustically that all of a sudden sounded great plugged in. As Roger said, it's all about the wood (or at least a bunch about the wood!) That being said, I have played basses that sounded very even and nice acoustically, but then were 'ruined' (for me anyway) by certain pickup or preamp combinations.
So, I agree in part... you never know the full story until you not only plug it in, but also get the instrument in a mix.
Roger Sadowsky disagrees with you completely, as he feels the tone of a bass unplugged is extremely important.
I find it interesting that you would characterize the sound that a wood instrument makes acoustically as 'almost irrelevant' in terms of its eventual sound through an amp. You're obviously going by what you've experienced, as am I. On this we can agree to disagree. Certainly there is a huge difference in the way different basses sound unplugged. How we get from there to the idea that it's 'almost irrelevant' how they sound unplugged is not clear to me.
One note about how a bass sounds in the mix. Before I bought this bass I read a lot of comments from guys who said that their Metro sounded one way when they were just sitting and playing it through an amp in a room but when they got it in the mix, they were blown away by it.
In the end the decision is mine to make based on my intuition which has been honed by 29 years of experience playing guitar, bass and piano. I'm not going to make any more comments about the specific issues that I have with this particular Metro. Of course I have plugged it in and played it extensively.
I continue to stand by my claim that Sadowsky makes one of the best basses in the world and that Metros represent excellent value for money.
At least IME, this has never been true, so definitely put me on the "disagree" list.
HUGE +1
Most folks typically talk mainly about the J's but this is of course even very true for my 24F-5 (and the Metro "Modern" of course). Literally Sadowsky's in general like maconbass says. Man, that thing has got some SERIOUS stuff going on in a mix. It's definitely one of those basses production folks ask about and compliment me on. I'm really looking forward to getting that JJ5 I just jumped on for that reason as well.
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Since 1980, I have been one of the first to advocate that the wood and the acoustic sound of a solidbody guitar or bass is the most important factor affecting the amplified sound of the instrument. This is from the point of view of comparing and selecting instruments. But the absolute bottom line is "how does it sound in a mix, either live or in the studio".
Roger
Roger
I didn't used to fully believe this until I tried to get my alder/braz. rosewood Sadowsky to sound like my ash/morado UV70. Despite pickup and string changes, I never could get the alder one to sound like the ash one. Then one day I played them side by side unplugged with the same strings and had one of those "lightbulb moments."
Since then, I have had a greater appreciation for the role of wood in the tone of a bass.
BTW, I now appreciate the tone of the alder one much more; in fact, it's now my #1. Tastes change.
