Club Sadowsky!!!

[Chasarms]

Metro UV60

• joel the bass player
• Mar 8, 2017
• sadowsky wiring

New to me Metro UV60, can anyone tell me what pickups these are? Single coil, should be Nordstrand? Yellow/black and white/black cloth wiring. Or is that not how you tell? I've searched around, but am still not clear. Just curious mostly, I'm still getting used to them and the preamp.

Loving this bass!

Can you post another photo of the control cavity with a little wider view? Also, of the pickups themselves?

I may be mistaken, but that cavity doesn't look stock. The only pickups I have seen with cloth insulated wiring were in a Fender. Although, I am no pickup expert.

 

[joel the bass player]

UV60

• joel the bass player
• Mar 8, 2017
• sadowsky

UV60

• joel the bass player
• Mar 8, 2017
• sadowsky

UV60 pickup

• joel the bass player
• Mar 8, 2017
• sadowsky

I know this model is a bit of an odd duck and there aren't many of them, but I figured someone would know. Single coils and wired volume volume.

 

[pickles]

Those look like the old duncan made singles other than the yellow cloth. Singles for sure since they are not 4 wire. Do both pickups have the sadowsky label on the case?

 

[joel the bass player]

Yep. They sound good to me, I was just curious since I had read a bunch of posts comparing the different Sadowsky singles.

Only thing I am unsure about this bass is the hybrid case it came in. I'm more of a hardcase guy and need to find something to fit this. It doesn't really fit that well into any of the cases I have, but then again none of them are for a jazz bass. Think a classic G&G Fender Jazz case would work?

 

[soong]

Covering the infamous Joy to the World performance from Gospel bassist Sharay Reed on my RV5. Single coils on mine! They make a huge difference.

 

[Chasarms]

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I know this model is a bit of an odd duck and there aren't many of them, but I figured someone would know. Single coils and wired volume volume.

The control knobs don't look Sadowsky. They look Fender. Maybe someone gutted a Fender to get the Vol/Vol pots and just left the wiring soldered to the pots? It'd be interesting to pull the pickups out and see if that wiring runs all the way to the pickup or is spliced somewhere. I am just speculating of course.

It's no big thing at all. Just rock it!

 

[joel the bass player]

Sadowsky Metro UV60-4 Ultra Vintage Burgundy Mist Bass with Case

This is its twin (besides color, obv). Same spec, the knobs and wiring are what comes on the UV60. Was just doing research on the bass to find out more about it, but didn't find much. I don't plan on taking anything out, a peek in the control cavity was as far as I was going to go. I meant to put in a fresh 9v but realized the ones I had in my bag were used or old.

 

[Bergerman]

Sweet, would you happen to have any clips?

Sorry...not at the moment. I'll see what I can do, though!

 

[Nomogram]

I've got a Saturday off with no gig tonight, so I spent some time with my Sadowsky MV4 and did a full set-up, new strings, intonation, etc. Turns out I had my neck pickup set about 1/64th of an inch lower than it should have been on the treble side - my sound guy had said something to me about string balance, it's amazing he could hear that. I guess that's a testament to the full-spectrum awesome sound of these basses. Anyhow, it sounds amazing, even better than before. I swear there is some unicorn pixie dust included in the pickups or something.

I also dug up a photo from a daytime summer gig last year that shows the ash wood grain on my MV4 under the T-Blue finish. I'm still hunting for a good stage photo from a club, under stage lights, that shows how amazing this finish looks, but no luck so far.

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Have any of you dudes ordered a single cut yet?

 

[Fran Diaz]

The control knobs don't look Sadowsky. They look Fender. Maybe someone gutted a Fender to get the Vol/Vol pots and just left the wiring soldered to the pots? It'd be interesting to pull the pickups out and see if that wiring runs all the way to the pickup or is spliced somewhere. I am just speculating of course.

It's no big thing at all. Just rock it!

I've seen Roger using Fender style knobs occasionally...like this one:
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[flewis]

I believe the UV60's typical comes with the Fender Style Knobs. My NYC UV60 has them.

 

[ale29]

I've tried an UV60 and it had Fender-style knobs indeed.

 

[Chasarms]

Forgive my ignorance. I haven't seen one of the UV basses.

 

[Lex P.]

My UV NYC P Bass also came with vintage style knurled chrome knobs.

 

[HawgDriver]

Timely to the discussion, my bass build was nearing completion last week and Peter kindly offered a knob choice between the metal and old school plastic ones. Both look great, imho.

 

[ale29]

What did you choose?
I find their metal knobs very classy, no matter what

 

[HawgDriver]

Well, I went with plastic knobs on this one for something a little different. Now I'll have a bass with each!

 

[Ewo]

Me likey. Black with a white three-layer guard is a great look, IMO.

 

[Sadowsky]

Metro UV60

• joel the bass player
• Mar 8, 2017
• sadowsky wiring

New to me Metro UV60, can anyone tell me what pickups these are? Single coil, should be Nordstrand? Yellow/black and white/black cloth wiring. Or is that not how you tell? I've searched around, but am still not clear. Just curious mostly, I'm still getting used to them and the preamp.

Loving this bass!

Metro UV60

• joel the bass player
• Mar 8, 2017
• sadowsky wiring

New to me Metro UV60, can anyone tell me what pickups these are? Single coil, should be Nordstrand? Yellow/black and white/black cloth wiring. Or is that not how you tell? I've searched around, but am still not clear. Just curious mostly, I'm still getting used to them and the preamp.

Loving this bass!

Those are our custom wound Duncans.