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Club Sadowsky!!!

#51,204
Trans black? Or trans purple?

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ElMon said:
All wenge neck MTD’s are my fave, and I experiments with my MTD 634 (walnut body, Sadowsky pre, Aguilar pickups) tells me I was on to something. Dang C string and I don’t get along well live or I’d still have that one.

Maybe this Warwick collaboration will allow me to live another expensive dream.
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What is it about wen-gay?
I just ordered a recliner chair and they asked me to choose the wood for the base.
Wenge was one of many options but I couldn't resist it! Another expensive dream.
 
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Vic said:
DOH! You're right, only the 4 string is an HPJ. My bad. Yes, it's an MV5-PJ 5.

LMAO!!
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Whew! I thought maybe I missed class the day they discussed the HPJ5! :laugh:

No worries, @Vic . As the current owner of a lovely Metro MV5-PJ, I have always loved the HPJ4. I bought a new one in 2007, but unfortunately I had to sell it a few years later to pay a college tuition payment for my daughter. And I’ve kicked myself every day since.
 
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I think I figured out why I feel a little guilty whenever I play one of my Sadowskys. It is so easy to get sweet bass nectar out of these fine instruments that it feels a bit like cheating. It takes a lot more finesse and twiddling to get an even roughly similar tone out of a passive bass. That, and the fact that these babies mostly play themselves, making my mediocre efforts sound almost competent. Cheating! :smug: Tonight’s funky old-school choice (using the handy pro photo):

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P.S. Lectricare fixed the bad pot. :D
 
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R&B said:
I think I figured out why I feel a little guilty whenever I play one of my Sadowskys. It is so easy to get sweet bass nectar out of these fine instruments that it feels a bit like cheating. It takes a lot more finesse and twiddling to get an even roughly similar tone out of a passive bass. That, and the fact that these babies mostly play themselves, making my mediocre efforts sound almost competent. Cheating! :smug: Tonight’s funky old-school choice (using the handy pro photo):

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P.S. Lectricare fixed the bad pot. :D
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Proper bass.
 
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HeavyJazz said:
A string question for my fellow Sadowsky slingers..

How would you compare the Sadowsky Blue Label Nickels to the DR Pure Blues?
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Good question! I have recently obtained a Sadowsky with fresh Blue Label Nickels on board, but otherwise am a longtime user of DR Sunbeams and Pure Blues on my other basses. My sense of this has to be calibrated by the fact that I'm comparing strings across different basses. But for now, I'd categorize the Pure Blues as warmer in timbre, and certainly more flexible in tension. The Sadowskys have more of an upper-midrange push...but they also are remarkably clear, and...this is kind of hard to explain, but the overtones ring out, yet don't blur each other on double or triple stops. This could be a function of the intonation being very well-set, and also the nature of the instrument itself -- it's a chambered single cut, arguably a bit lightweight in the extreme bass range, but the the timbre of all notes north of the ninth or tenth fret, on the A, D, and G strings, is drop-dead gorgeous. It's sort of like "bloom," but rises and decays quickly, so it is rich, yet clean. Instead of "bloom," call it "blossom?" My current practice and noodling is oriented toward soloing over jazz changes, or spacing out with double or triple stops on top of an open drone string, and the songfulness of this bass is to die for. Which brings me back to the Blue Label Nickels - I'm increasingly convinced that they contribute mightily to the pleasure I'm having with this axe.

Net net: Pure Blues will have less tension, are warmer, and could present better in a lot of band contexts where the bass is expected to provide a thicker presence. If nuance is an element of your program, and you're cool with the tension (I'm mixed on this - I like lighter tension), the Blue Labels will excel - and if you're on an active bass, particularly one as evolved as the Sadowsky preamp circuit, you can EQ to match what's good about the Pure Blues timbre. If you are chasing nuance, I don't think EQ will help the Pure Blues do that thing that the Blue Labels do.
 
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"I like the cut of your giblets."

Thanks, I plan on giving the BLs a try.

Joebone said:
Good question! I have recently obtained a Sadowsky with fresh Blue Label Nickels on board, but otherwise am a longtime user of DR Sunbeams and Pure Blues on my other basses. My sense of this has to be calibrated by the fact that I'm comparing strings across different basses. But for now, I'd categorize the Pure Blues as warmer in timbre, and certainly more flexible in tension. The Sadowskys have more of an upper-midrange push...but they also are remarkably clear, and...this is kind of hard to explain, but the overtones ring out, yet don't blur each other on double or triple stops. This could be a function of the intonation being very well-set, and also the nature of the instrument itself -- it's a chambered single cut, arguably a bit lightweight in the extreme bass range, but the the timbre of all notes north of the ninth or tenth fret, on the A, D, and G strings, is drop-dead gorgeous. It's sort of like "bloom," but rises and decays quickly, so it is rich, yet clean. Instead of "bloom," call it "blossom?" My current practice and noodling is oriented toward soloing over jazz changes, or spacing out with double or triple stops on top of an open drone string, and the songfulness of this bass is to die for. Which brings me back to the Blue Label Nickels - I'm increasingly convinced that they contribute mightily to the pleasure I'm having with this axe.

Net net: Pure Blues will have less tension, are warmer, and could present better in a lot of band contexts where the bass is expected to provide a thicker presence. If nuance is an element of your program, and you're cool with the tension (I'm mixed on this - I like lighter tension), the Blue Labels will excel - and if you're on an active bass, particularly one as evolved as the Sadowsky preamp circuit, you can EQ to match what's good about the Pure Blues timbre. If you are chasing nuance, I don't think EQ will help the Pure Blues do that thing that the Blue Labels do.
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