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Club Sadowsky!!!

#35,661
Fuzzbass said:
I often read comments that morado is closer to maple. Regardless, folks believe that it's snappier than the usual rosewoods. That seemed to be true on my Fender RB5's.
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Morado is somewhere in the middle to me.

Fingerboard woods are odd to me. I have all kinds of opinions about them but I struggle to verbalize them. I know it isn't visual, as I actually think the rosewood board look better, but there is some not fully explainable combination of sonic/tactile preference that I just cannot deny.

Having read the wood thread, maybe I am feeling something that is making me hear, hearing something that is making me feel or both. Maybe I am imagining both!!! :)

But every time, the maple necks make me happier.

I get more of my happy vibe from Morado than I get from the various RWs being sold by various makers - and even more from BRW. Granted my experience with BRW was the NYC modern I played for a while. It could have been something else making my happy. It was a killer bass.
 
#35,664
Joebone said:
Had only one experience with Brazilian RW, but it was on a 5-24 that I believe used to belong to Chasarms (mahogany body, amboyna top), and was very surprised by the liveliness of the fretboard and neck. Ironically, my current NYC 5-24 is ebony/mahaogony/koa, and it has a much deeper and centered voice, which I truly and deeply dig. I'm hoping that whoever now has that Brazilian RW board is a slapper, 'cuz that axe was excellent in that mode...but I'm a fingerstyle guy.
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Any idea who may have that bass now? It seems to be one of those that makes the rounds. I would think it would settle somewhere. That is a killer bass.
 
#35,668
Fran Diaz said:
Sadowskys are NOT bright by nature: IMO this is a misconception that has developed from guys having a Sadowsky in their hands without really understanding how the preamp worked and boosting the treble to 10 as if it were a passive control wide open.

Can you get the tone your after from A Sadowsky? IMO and IME yes. You might even like how deep and smooth a Sadowsky PJ is (edit: I should say "can be" because this combo is also capable of many other tones).
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I agree with you because I play on a lot of R&B tracks and they specifically ask for deep and smooth tones. So all I do is have both J pickups wide open, the bass on the sadowsky pre boosted a bit to 10 o clock and the treble at 9. Then I roll off the tone knob until it sits where I want it.

The best part is that the highs are still there, so when I make a run in the upper octaves on the G, it just sings so clearly without sounding harsh. The low B and E notes sound super deep, and most importantly, everything is balanced.

You can easily get a really smooth tone without any twang in it, you just have to spend a little time with the knobs on your bass.

That is really the coolest part. I can use a passive J with the Sad pre settings the way I described, and then utilizing the tone and pickups knobs, go from a biting slap tone to a deep R&B tone with very little effort.
 

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