^^^ Part of the licensing and relocation of the NYC shop. You won't be able to go direct for that stuff is my understanding. Hopefully Sweetwater picks up his accessory line.
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IIRC, it’s an upgrade to have it done at the shop due to the time it takes for them to oil it.
Joeykun
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Same reason you can’t get a lot of things today!
Moving to a smaller shop to focus more on working at the bench building rather than some of the less fun aspects of owning a business. Having Warwick deal more with logistics of distribution and probably other things too under their licensing agreement will simplify the daily routine.
Probably the combination of everything. Relicensing distribution, relocating, house arrest...
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Thanks for checking it out!!!Thoroughly enjoyed your full (1hr) concert, Jason! Wish I lived closer—definitely love to see your band perform live!! Solid playing as usual, man...remember listening to some of your MTD clips, quite awhile back.
that kicks a whole lotta' ass right there!
I feel very fortunate to have acquired this gem. It is a black pearl metallic NYC P5/SoapBar with a weight reduced swamp alder body and Brazilian rosewood board. I am a PJ5 fan and this one is something special. I get the Sadowsky NYC thing now. Comments from @ElMon on the NYC PJ5 drove me to pursue this and are spot on. The set up and intonation on this are excellent and the B-string walk-down notes from low E to low B are solid and even. Mounting the bridge pickup closer to the P renders the tone less twangy and nasal. Using a soapbar instead of a J provides a little less treble but a lot more meat to the tone. I never solo a bridge J pickup and have always biased the blend toward the P, but this bridge pickup sounds really good soloed and I'll probably run the blend biased towards the bridge on this. It makes the tone focused and articulate but thick where the notes have good weight to them. There are no dead spots on the high strings or wolf tones on the B-string on the upper frets. There is also less finger noise and hum than any bass I've owned. Shielding and grounding are done right. The passive tone sounds very good but engaging the preamp with tone open and nothing added provides some buffering and clarity which bumps it up a notch. There are a lot of variables that affect the tone of an instrument but Brazilian rosewood is my favorite fingerboard wood. This bass has mojo! The black pearl metallic has a very fine grain which makes it subtle and almost satin. It looks better up close and makes the bass almost disappear in a photo. This should be useful when I serve in our praise band because they always want the instruments off to the side and invisible when the service is videotaped. I hope to record some sound clips but for now, here is the spec sheet and some photos.
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Nice! I kept checking Mojo’s website to see how much they were going to list it for just in case it was a tempting price, but never saw it. After @Dr. Cheese posted a video of him playing it, I figured it’d end up in a TB’rs hands.
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MetroExpress! Did anyone notice that since the last Sadowsky newsletter on 5/17, the last batch of Japan MetroExpress bass inventory flew out the door? Looks to me like about a dozen sold on the Sadowsky website in like 4 days. I was going to grab a 5 string in ash/maple, but they are all gone.
She's a beaut Clark.
Question to the PJ'ers who were rocking this setup in the 70's ...
I've heard that you shouldn't mix a single coil pickup with the P Pickup, and yet, wasn't that the only option back then?
I dime the P Pickup 95% of the time when I use my PJ5, and then will favor the J Pickup for 'that sound' when needed. Rarely do I do the blended sound. Would it work to dump a single coil into my PJ5?
Okay, two questions.
My thoughts were, in keeping with my P-only use, it would be cool to have that 'true' SC sound on the back pickup if I needed it.
You get phase cancellation with a single coil in the J position, on my pj I tend to use the p 95% of the time, I have a big split in j position when I use it I probably have the blend knon 75% at least towards that pick up. My PJ is locally built with the sadowsky preamp in it, i had the builder reverse the blend knob to be same as the majority of blend knobs.
Should add that I never use both pick ups full on, I do on my NYC single coil jazz 5 string. But dont favour that sound on my pjs.
To make sure I understand part in bold, this is 'IF you blend both pickups, with the SC J in there'.
Part of me just wants to try it. The HC in my PJ5 does a pretty could 'Jaco thing' when I add in a chorus pedal (which gives it a bit of kick in the mids) but I've always wanted a bit more 'snot' in that tone.
Sooo, how or when can we buy strings? I was going to try the Black Label, Nickel for my JJ4.
I almost always run my NYC PJ or Verdine White fully blended and adjust either way depending on a given song. Both of those have the HC. Now on a fender performer PJ that I had I never favored the J much because the SC noise drove me crazier over time. I loved the sound in the honeymoon phase of the bass but as time went on that hum got on my nerves. I loved the aggressive growl of that bass but the hum was a deal breaker for me. My Sadowsky's have that sound and then some so I don't miss that bass at all.
