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Club Sadowsky!!!

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Turlu said:
Thank you bass12 ! You are close to me, my fellow canadian friend! I actually use very similar settings as you described above and she sounds absolutely terrific! She is so beautiful ! Now, I may have my GAS cured for a long time.... Oh wait, I may want a Sadowsky in 'P' style now !
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Don't forget the Moderns (often overlooked but great in their own way). :)
 
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To continue the transparent blue theme...my new addition has arrived, so I thought a new family photo was in order!


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I am loving the Transparent Blue bass photos!

Last fall, I decided I wanted a Sadowsky for sure. I researched all of the standard finishes online, and the minute I saw a photo of one in T-Blue, it was love ay first sight, gotta have that one, no matter what. I couldn't find any available, so I placed an order for a T-Blue MV4. I'm 4 months in, waiting, and seeing these beautiful basses is making me happy. I'm looking forward to having mine soon!
 
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bass12 said:
Yeah, I think a fairly common EQ setting is to have the highs at zero with maybe a 10% boost in the lows. I'll bring the highs up when my strings start to go dead. The passive tone control can also be used to great effect. Try boosting the highs a bit and rolling some of the passive tone control off for added presence without any harshness. Great looking bass by the way!
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I love boosting treble, and cutting passive tone.
I think Vic turned me on to that about a million years ago?
Totally a great thing.
 
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Like Chef said. I like to cut the VTC back about 25% from full and boost the bass/treb both about 25-35%. I find that boosting treb and cutting the vtc back does something to the top end that is hard to describe, but just sounds great. It's fat in the bottom and has great top end, without being harsh.
 
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A year ago I thought sadowskys were just overpriced fender clones. Thought to myself, does a bass really get that much better after $1000?
Tried out my first metro this past fall and I was so blown away by the quality, playability, and everything about it. I ended up buying 2 brand new metro will lees models and have a NYC will Lee on order at the moment! I have zero regrets and I believe my money is well spent because these are basses that are truly made for musicians to use for the rest of heir lives!
 
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sharpbass said:
Like Chef said. I like to cut the VTC back about 25% from full and boost the bass/treb both about 25-35%. I find that boosting treb and cutting the vtc back does something to the top end that is hard to describe, but just sounds great. It's fat in the bottom and has great top end, without being harsh.
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The VTC / Treble trick is pretty cool but about the only time I boost the bass is if I solo the bridge p/u. Regardless, a little goes a long way with the onboard eq.
 
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Agreed that a little goes a *very* long way, especially if you're in the PA. The last thing you want to do is to amplify large boosts in the lows by few thousand watts into an effective echo chamber of a large venue. It's not the sort of thing that buys goodwill from sound techs.

Keeping the old audio engineer's adage in mind is always worthwhile - it's better to cut than to boost. Since that's not an option, at most I boost the lows 10-15%. Less or not at all if I'm in the PA. Highs I might boost as much as 50% with very dead strings and depending on the overall mix, maybe 25% max if in the PA.

I'm also a fan of boosting the highs while cutting a bit with the passive EQ. It's easy to explain why this works. Boosting the active EQ brings up a wider range overall and alters the tonal balance a bit, while the passive roll-off is bleeding out highs starting way up top which is what tends to sound "brittle" or "harsh".
 
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bass12 said:
Yeah, I think a fairly common EQ setting is to have the highs at zero with maybe a 10% boost in the lows. I'll bring the highs up when my strings start to go dead. The passive tone control can also be used to great effect. Try boosting the highs a bit and rolling some of the passive tone control off for added presence without any harshness. Great looking bass by the way!
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I almost always keep bass and treble in lockstep, and if i add too much brightness I cool it with the VTC. Bringing up the 2-band together creates the right shape in the mids. On a stack knob setup you can turn them as if they are one knob and that will usually sound right +/- 10%.
 
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My $0.19: The way I use the Sadowsky onboard is to set the master volume at about 75%, leaving some headroom in the tank, boost treble and bass each about 25% (though I tend to favor the bass just a tad), pan the pups depending on tonal universe I want to be in, and roll off the VTC to compliment the pickup selection and depending on where my strings are at. If I am going for a P tone, I pan towards the neck pup and roll the VTC back maybe 30% to 50%, depending how much thud I want. Pizz I may tend to pan towards the bridge pup and roll VTC back 30%. Slap, I use both pups full on and take the VTC to off. Those are some starting points, and then adjust depending. 75% volume is fine for most bass rigs and ok for pro boards with appropriate trim control. Hope that helps; though we all play in different ways; so YMMV.
 
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