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Club Sadowsky!!!

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Don't have many action shots, unfortunatley I'm usually the photographer. Plus I have a face that most cameras don't want to have a long term relationship with, much less love. :smug:

But here's one on my church mens retreat. We have 14 satalite campuses and 7 were at the retreat center. The band cooked, great leader, and as usual the bass player was hidden in the back. At least they didn't put me in a closet.
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I often wish I could claim a piece of exclusive stage territory as large as that carpet. It's all good and well putting the bass player in a place where he/she can't turn more than 45 degrees let alone take a step, until somebody, or worse in the eyes of one member, somebody's cymbals take a nasty blow from the head stock of the bass.

It's nice when the stage is a decent size.
 
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kittywithabanjo said:
I always get the same space as everyone else but I have to fit my x32 producer in there too..
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My theory is that "same space as everyone" is actually not proper... our gear is often bigger, and the head stock is a lot longer. We should have an extra 12" of clearance, minimum. And we should never be put against a stage-left wall. It's the head stock that other players intuitively do not take into account when parceling out real estate. Hence one of the rules from my book: arrive to the gig early...he who gets there first stakes out the territory.

Yes, I wind up playing a lot of small, cramped-space gigs. That intimate jazz-blues experience. Heck, a couple weeks ago I played a gig where I was, almost literally, the gatekeeper to the men's restroom. Had to lift or move the neck/head stock when someone needed to get by. That's as annoyed as I have been at a gig in a long time.
 
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Plutonium244 said:
My theory is that "same space as everyone" is actually not proper... our gear is often bigger, and the head stock is a lot longer. We should have an extra 12" of clearance, minimum. And we should never be put against a stage-left wall. It's the head stock that other players intuitively do not take into account when parceling out real estate. Hence one of the rules from my book: arrive to the gig early...he who gets there first stakes out the territory.

Yes, I wind up playing a lot of small, cramped-space gigs. That intimate jazz-blues experience. Heck, a couple weeks ago I played a gig where I was, almost literally, the gatekeeper to the men's restroom. Had to lift or move the neck/head stock when someone needed to get by. That's as annoyed as I have been at a gig in a long time.
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At a regular gig we had I could not even face the audience, I had to stand stage right with my back against the side wall and face the drummer. I had enough room to sort of step left and right but nothing forward or back. The only good thing was a lip/shelve along the wall that conveniently held my drink up and let my duppa kinda rest on it for some comfort. (And yes, I said duppa, I know you are from Wisconsin as is my wife :smug:).
 
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Plutonium244 said:
Heck, a couple weeks ago I played a gig where I was, almost literally, the gatekeeper to the men's restroom. Had to lift or move the neck/head stock when someone needed to get by. That's as annoyed as I have been at a gig in a long time.
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Had the SAME experience a couple of months ago.
Terrible experience, we all tried to make the best of it by getting drunk after the end of the gig; then we found out that we had to pay for most of our beers as well, and we had to use our own money to come home the next day because we literally drank our (admittedly modest) cachet.
 
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ale29 said:
Had the SAME experience a couple of months ago.
Terrible experience, we all tried to make the best of it by getting drunk after the end of the gig; then we found out that we had to pay for most of our beers as well, and we had to use our own money to come home the next day because we literally drank our (admittedly modest) cachet.
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BTW, I dig your band's sound (found via your signature link).
 
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Here's something I've been wondering about. By pulling the active knob to passive mode does it prolong battery life? Or just by keeping the cord unplugged from the bass regardless of knob position?

I know on my old Tobias bass if the active switch was engaged it was draining the battery regardless of the cable being plugged in or not. Was wondering about the Sadowsky?
 
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Paullee01 said:
Here's something I've been wondering about. By pulling the active knob to passive mode does it prolong battery life? Or just by keeping the cord unplugged from the bass regardless of knob position?

I know on my old Tobias bass if the active switch was engaged it was draining the battery regardless of the cable being plugged in or not. Was wondering about the Sadowsky?
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99% sure that the battery is switched in and out via the jack -- so, when the cable's plugged in you'll get some drain even in passive mode, but when the cable is out, the battery is switched out.

This is true for most actives, and I prefer it to the way your old Tobias bass was configured. I mean, I like knowing that when my bass is in its case, the battery is disengaged -- no need to worry about making sure the bass is in passive mode every time I store it.
 
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Fuzzbass said:
This is true for most actives, and I prefer it to the way your old Tobias bass was configured. I mean, I like knowing that when my bass is in its case, the battery is disengaged -- no need to worry about making sure the bass is in passive mode every time I store it.
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I don't really get your point. If the bass is unplugged the battery IS disengaged. No need for a switch.
You might store the bass in its case and forget to switch the bass in passive mode and drain the battery.
No switch is the safest way to prevent that.
 
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Plutonium244 said:
Yes, I wind up playing a lot of small, cramped-space gigs. That intimate jazz-blues experience. Heck, a couple weeks ago I played a gig where I was, almost literally, the gatekeeper to the men's restroom. Had to lift or move the neck/head stock when someone needed to get by. That's as annoyed as I have been at a gig in a long time.
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You guys are making me envious of all the space you get.
 
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baxter_x said:
I don't really get your point. If the bass is unplugged the battery IS disengaged. No need for a switch.
You might store the bass in its case and forget to switch the bass in passive mode and drain the battery.
No switch is the safest way to prevent that.
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That *was* my point. Paullee must have had a very old Tobias. I'm not aware of any actives that use a switch to disengage the battery. The jack is used for all the obvious reasons.
 
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