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Club Sadowsky!!!

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you've taken a trip that I have already taken. I started out with the LM Tube. Nice, but I wanted more grunt, and I get that with my 2 amps (SL900 and TH500). Both have a great sound, and yet are unique from each other. Both thru Bergantino cabs. magnifique.
I use my SL900 for my upright, usually thru a CN112, and I have set the EQ up for that. I use my TH500 as my rock amp, thru an NV115 (and the CN on top if I need to move more air) and likewise set it for that application. works for me.
 
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Which would you recommend for doing the funk/r&b thing?

Holdsg said:
you've taken a trip that I have already taken. I started out with the LM Tube. Nice, but I wanted more grunt, and I get that with my 2 amps (SL900 and TH500). Both have a great sound, and yet are unique from each other. Both thru Bergantino cabs. magnifique.
I use my SL900 for my upright, usually thru a CN112, and I have set the EQ up for that. I use my TH500 as my rock amp, thru an NV115 (and the CN on top if I need to move more air) and likewise set it for that application. works for me.
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scyzoryk said:
Anyone play a Sadowsky with Bergantino cabs? What head do y'all pair them up with?

The Markbass Little Mark Tube isn't doing it for me... thinking about a GB Streamliner 900 or Aguilar ToneHammer 500...
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I use an Ampeg SVT 3 Pro or 4 Pro (both are around ten years old) with my Bergantino AE 210 and 410 cabinets but given what I've heard about more recent Ampegs I'd check something different out if I had to replace them.
 
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Holdsg said:
TH500 gives more booty shaking power (IMO). SL900 for more tube-type sound, could work for R&B/funk too, with proper EQ.
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I'm very happy with the sound of my RV5 through the TH500. That head gives a real nice phatness (spelling intentional!) in the upper register, so thumps and pops (dead, or fretted) are meaty. Can't get specific about Berg cabs, because I've been using a pair of Baer ML112s.
 
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OK, fog of GAS war. I tried the old stock HCs, dimarzio area Js, and duncan singles in that bass. I liked the duncan singles best by a lot, but if you really need hum canceling the NEW sadowsky HCs (I think based on area J) will sound almost as good as the singles but will need a touch of bass boost to sound balanced IME and be a little less upper mid growly. With singles in a sadowsky I usually use little or no bass boost for my basic tone. I always thought the old HCs on the 5 strings were too scooped but the new ones are much better. They use a 500k pot with the new HCs now as well. IIRC (could be misremembering again), I drilled your bass for the 500k pot but ended up switching back to 250 with the singles.

I just got a metro will lee RV5 and the nordstand based sadowsky singles are KILLER in this bass. I didn't like them in my MS4, but a really good fit with this bass. This may be the best playing and sounding sadowsky I've had. Solid B string up to the 8th fret with a 125 DR hi beam and the G string is about as deadspot-free as wood neck basses get. Amazing neck. Its go home on your lunch break to play good.
 

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scyzoryk said:
Anyone play a Sadowsky with Bergantino cabs? What head do y'all pair them up with?

The Markbass Little Mark Tube isn't doing it for me... thinking about a GB Streamliner 900 or Aguilar ToneHammer 500...
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Oh yes. I use Berg cabs exclusively! I have a variety. My favorite cab of all time bar none is the NV610, but I try to limit that big beast to my loud rock band. For "normal" gigs I would use one or two HS210 cabs (somewhat similar to the HD210).

Earlier this year I bought myself an "old man rig": a pair of lightweight neo CN112 cabs, along with the Aguilar ToneHammer 500. (Note: you'll save a few hundred getting one CN212 instead of a pair of CN112, but I have a regular upstairs gig where a single 12 is enough). In short, I love it. I'm still getting the hang of the TH500... the interaction of Gain and Drive is interesting. I'd call it a vintage style tone that works especially well with Stax/Motown/blues/rockabilly. I think I prefer SansAmp preamps for modern hard rock, but as noted I'm still learning the TH500. I have to add that the TH500 plus two CN112 cabs has really nice oomph: it can keep up with guitar, drums, Hammond+Leslies, and 5 piece horn section without breaking a sweat.

I did not audition different mini-heads before getting the TH500. I did my research (mostly here on TB) and selected the TH over the Streamliner 900 and GK MB Fusion 800. I'd be using the TH500 primarily for vintage tunes, and I think I made the right choice (though I'm not sure there's a wrong choice).

Back to Sadowsky content: my 2010 NYC P5 (CAR/alder/Braz) is currently strung with LaBella nylon tapes, and it sounds wonderful through the TH/CN rig. (My other Sadowskys do too, but I typically use them for loud rock).
 
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ShowKing said:
I may get a biased answer asking here, but just curious how does a sadowsky p bass compare to that sought after classic fender p bass tone?
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I've always been a P-bass guy. In short: Sadowsky gives me the P-bass tone I've always been looking for. That said, it isn't the classic Fender P-bass tone.

Depends on how fussy your ears are. In passive mode the Sadowsky sounds reasonably close to Fender, but has a flatter curve, not so mid-humped. It's a Sadowsky, after all: Roger's goal was to improve the classic Fender tone, not clone it. I think he did, but it's subjective of course. So, if you have discerning ears and gotta gotta have the passive Fender tone, Sadowsky might not be for you. (Same should apply to the J-basses, but I have little experience with them).
 

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