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- Apr 20, 2009
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- Endorsements: your name could be here, Mr. Sadowsky!
How about an archtop bass? Jim Hall model?
Are Porta Bags even available currently? If so, are they the same in regard to the pockets (number of, and size) as the Access bags?
The first 3 basses built in 1982 were all PJ's on a P body! I have always made them!
Access has made my Portabag from day 1. I go back with Herschel Blankenship of Access to about 1978 when he was the rep for Schecter. I will continue to use these for my NYC Custom Shop instruments. Early next year, Warwick will be distributing a version of the Portabag worldwide. They call it the Pro Portabag.
Access was making my Portabag for 10 years before they released their Stage 5.
Only the Deluxe Portabag, which we sold through dealers, came with Portabags.
Will Lee and the Sadowsky sound.....I installed my first preamp for Will in 1980, not too long after I modded Marcus Miller's bass. Once he started using my basses regularly on the Letterman show, all of a sudden, players were coming into the shop and mentioning how great the bass sounds on Letterman! I remember I had a SONY Trinitron TV in those days, and it probably had a pair of 2" speakers in it. I'm thinking to myself, "How can you hear anything through these tiny little TV speakers?" This constant chorus of "Your bass sounds so great on Letterman" convinced me there was something special about the way the preamp helped the bass cut through the mix. Then I started getting compliments from studio engineers and front of house sound engineers. This was how I knew I was doing something that really worked.
A college friend of mine became a sound engineer in Nashville. He recounted once he saw Jeff Beck huddled over a boom box listening to his playbacks. My friend asked Beck why and he answered, “Because that’s how the kids hear it.”
Roger, I doubt you’ll remember this but like 25-30 years ago I brought this bass into your shop and you did a fret job and bone nut as well as fixed a couple things that the previous owner before me did (I’d never had done all these mods), but I remember you taking a good hard look at the 2 rear J pickups that the plastic was cut and glued together and saw that there was a single coil switch and you had asked about how I used it and we talked about it a bit and you had thought it was an interesting idea. I always wondered if possibly that had anything to do with the super J idea or were there other people making those anyway? I was always curious about that.
Here was a pic I found of the bass at that time.
Rob
Here was a pic I found of the bass at that time.
Rob
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There have always been people trying to do a double J in the bridge position, including Roscoe Beck. In your case, the extra coil closer to the bridge should have been on the other side of the J. I saw a lot of J pickups added to P basses in the 80's that were placed much too close to the bridge. I abandoned the idea until I asked Carey Nordstrand if he could get the two coils as close to true 60-70's locations as possible. He nailed it to within .10" (a tenth of an inch)! Thus, the Super J!
Roger,
thank you for your response
My first two Satins were Deluxe’s ( purchased used) and must have originally been purchased thru a dealer.
I have 3 Satins and love them all!!!
I am waiting for the right NYC P5 to come around- hope I have the funds available !!
Such an incredible looking guitar. Makes me wish I played guitar even at a passable level so I could justify buying one.
