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Club Sadowsky!!!

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monkeyland said:
I agree. The current model HC pickups do sound very good, sure there is a little bit of spring lost that comes easy with singles but it's worth it if you need that reliably hum free operation. This is a video from a room that I currently play in three nights a week. It's not a super glamorous gig but it's been a constant for me for about a decade with various lineups and schedules. Directly above the stage is a neon sign and directly to my right are some dimmers for the lights in the restaurant. It's not my place to be trying to make changes to the building. My single coils sound great but in this space they essentially limit me to one sound. The HCs do a great job of rejecting all of that noise and allow me to favor the neck or bridge pickup when I want to. The Sadowsky single coils are very well made and are quiet in comparison to others but there's only so much you can expect in a harsh environment.

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Nice job! And of course that Sadowsky sounds great. Our band is planning to pick up this tune.
 
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Pair of preCBS specced P&J. Thanks Matt!

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Vic said:
Just to be clear, this is ONLY true for the Warwick made MetroExpress basses, where it may be added later. All others do.
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Well looks like I never checked lol you are right push/pull passive mode on the vtc.. I believe my love for this instrument just extended.. one step closer to a proposal :roflmao:

oh and for the record, they pulled another three basses off the shelf, same buzzing.. so I might be getting a pickup replacement and some shielding free of charge.. prob saved them a lot of customer related problems, the rep won’t be happy though :laugh:
 
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I read the posts about alternate strings for Sadowsky basses. I’ve never had anything other than Sadowsky Strings on my bass for 17 years. I’ve only used the Blue Stainless since they started making them. Has anybody tried a non Sadowsky hex core stainless string on their Sadowsky? We play detuned a half step and I would like to stay with a hex core. This wouldn’t be a problem if we were playing every weekend like before covid, but gigs have been slow the past 1 1/2 years and $33.00 for a set of strings is just too much for me at this time.
 
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Lowfader said:
I read the posts about alternate strings for Sadowsky basses. I’ve never had anything other than Sadowsky Strings on my bass for 17 years. I’ve only used the Blue Stainless since they started making them. Has anybody tried a non Sadowsky hex core stainless string on their Sadowsky? We play detuned a half step and I would like to stay with a hex core. This wouldn’t be a problem if we were playing every weekend like before covid, but gigs have been slow the past 1 1/2 years and $33.00 for a set of strings is just too much for me at this time.
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The Sadowsky P5 in my avatar is my go-to bass for rock. It works great for any style of course, but I keep it half-step-down because that's typical for my harder rock bands. Because it gets played so much I almost always keep it strung with Elixirs. The nanoweb coating keeps the string fresh for longer than uncoated strings. This is especially true in hot/humid conditions (outdoors, summertime!) where my sweat can kill uncoated strings dead well before the end of the gig. Standard Elixirs (nickel) are OK, but for rock I prefer stainless, and Elixir came out with steel nanowebs awhile back so I've been using them.

For uncoated strings I usually go with DR Lo Rider steels, but I've also used Dunlop Super Bright steels when I've found 'em at very nice prices.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought DR Hi Beams were round core?
 
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Lowfader said:
I read the posts about alternate strings for Sadowsky basses. I’ve never had anything other than Sadowsky Strings on my bass for 17 years. I’ve only used the Blue Stainless since they started making them. Has anybody tried a non Sadowsky hex core stainless string on their Sadowsky? We play detuned a half step and I would like to stay with a hex core. This wouldn’t be a problem if we were playing every weekend like before covid, but gigs have been slow the past 1 1/2 years and $33.00 for a set of strings is just too much for me at this time.
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My faves for what you're asking is DR Lo-Rider Stainless. Those are stiffer hex core stainless strings from DR that are great. Only thing is, no tapered B, so you'll have to reset your intonation for the B string.
 
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monkeyland said:
I agree. The current model HC pickups do sound very good, sure there is a little bit of spring lost that comes easy with singles but it's worth it if you need that reliably hum free operation. This is a video from a room that I currently play in three nights a week. It's not a super glamorous gig but it's been a constant for me for about a decade with various lineups and schedules. Directly above the stage is a neon sign and directly to my right are some dimmers for the lights in the restaurant. It's not my place to be trying to make changes to the building. My single coils sound great but in this space they essentially limit me to one sound. The HCs do a great job of rejecting all of that noise and allow me to favor the neck or bridge pickup when I want to. The Sadowsky single coils are very well made and are quiet in comparison to others but there's only so much you can expect in a harsh environment.

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That was great! You guys are not your average bar band. Sadowsky sounds really good.
 
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SzunaP said:
Hi, bassmates, this is the first video from the former bigband session two weeks ago, very hot, so fresh... :D featuring Modern Art Orchestra, the tune is Peter Szendofi's composition called 'Kim'. Hope this link works. (Another one coming soon)

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Very well done, both the performance and the video production. You sounded great!
 
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Thanks guys, absolutely agreed, I've given new horizont in the last year with this axe... :D

My bass was plugged in an Avalon U5 preamp (if I'm correct) this time in this studio, which was a nice sounding tool, but there was an issue with it; first I linked my tuner (simple Korg handy) between the preamp and the bass, but the engineer noticed that tuner mixed the bass signal with the environment (inner mic?), and it had to be removed.
Then when I wanted to check the tuning, unplugged the cable from the Avalon input, and it produced a very loud, so harsh high noise that made everyone shouted by inear monitors... me too :D Never ever had such horrible experience unplugging cable, not from the bass, from the amp/pre...
Anybody know about it, any ideas?
Every time when I was tuning, had to tweak down to 0 the preamp gain/volume to avoid this issue.. funny. And memorise the volume level, to get the same sign level after tuning. It was irritating...
 
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monkeyland said:
I agree. The current model HC pickups do sound very good, sure there is a little bit of spring lost that comes easy with singles but it's worth it if you need that reliably hum free operation. This is a video from a room that I currently play in three nights a week. It's not a super glamorous gig but it's been a constant for me for about a decade with various lineups and schedules. Directly above the stage is a neon sign and directly to my right are some dimmers for the lights in the restaurant. It's not my place to be trying to make changes to the building. My single coils sound great but in this space they essentially limit me to one sound. The HCs do a great job of rejecting all of that noise and allow me to favor the neck or bridge pickup when I want to. The Sadowsky single coils are very well made and are quiet in comparison to others but there's only so much you can expect in a harsh environment.

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Nice playing, fine and tasty... cool solos! And that sound, uhh lovely!
I'm thinkin about to swap my old Blade JB for a Metro MV5, need this also, the classic taste of jazzbass.... :D Sometimes I feel the Modern is too nuclear, but it can be handled by fingers, and tweakin....
 
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monkeyland said:
I agree. The current model HC pickups do sound very good, sure there is a little bit of spring lost that comes easy with singles but it's worth it if you need that reliably hum free operation. This is a video from a room that I currently play in three nights a week. It's not a super glamorous gig but it's been a constant for me for about a decade with various lineups and schedules. Directly above the stage is a neon sign and directly to my right are some dimmers for the lights in the restaurant. It's not my place to be trying to make changes to the building. My single coils sound great but in this space they essentially limit me to one sound. The HCs do a great job of rejecting all of that noise and allow me to favor the neck or bridge pickup when I want to. The Sadowsky single coils are very well made and are quiet in comparison to others but there's only so much you can expect in a harsh environment.

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I would dearly love to listen to this video, but refuse to give Mark Zuckerberg my information. That guy can pound sand.
 
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