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Club Sadowsky!!!

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here's some more of the top....
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Hey, I have a question for all of you NYC two-timers (those who have both a 4 and a 5 in identical wood combinations). I have recently acquired an ash/maple Standard 5 and I'm surprised to find that it sounds quite different from my ash/maple Standard 4. I'm not quite sure how to explain the difference. The lows on the 5 are more throaty and the highs seem to sing out a bit more. The open E is also slightly more aggressive than on the 4. I'm tempted to say that the five sounds more "alive" than the 4 (which sounds slightly more mellow) - it's kind of like the difference between Chaka Khan and Sade. At this point, I'm not favouring one bass over the other, I'm just curious as to why there might be such a difference. Is it simply a matter of 5 vs 4, or perhaps the presence of the string tree on the headstock of the 5? I've never before owned a 4 and 5 of the "same bass" so any insight on your parts would be helpful. Thanks, guys.
 
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bass12 said:
Hey, I have a question for all of you NYC two-timers (those who have both a 4 and a 5 in identical wood combinations). I have recently acquired an ash/maple Standard 5 and I'm surprised to find that it sounds quite different from my ash/maple Standard 4.
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They have different types of pickups, don't they? If so, that might be it right there.
 
#6,274
bass12 said:
Hey, I have a question for all of you NYC two-timers (those who have both a 4 and a 5 in identical wood combinations). I have recently acquired an ash/maple Standard 5 and I'm surprised to find that it sounds quite different from my ash/maple Standard 4. I'm not quite sure how to explain the difference. The lows on the 5 are more throaty and the highs seem to sing out a bit more. The open E is also slightly more aggressive than on the 4. I'm tempted to say that the five sounds more "alive" than the 4 (which sounds slightly more mellow) - it's kind of like the difference between Chaka Khan and Sade. At this point, I'm not favouring one bass over the other, I'm just curious as to why there might be such a difference. Is it simply a matter of 5 vs 4, or perhaps the presence of the string tree on the headstock of the 5? I've never before owned a 4 and 5 of the "same bass" so any insight on your parts would be helpful. Thanks, guys.
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I would figure the additional mass due to the wider neck and slightly larger body is what your hearing plus the pure fact that every tree is different and will resonate at different points even in the same species...
 
#6,276
Mark Latimour said:
A P pickup is a split coil (ie humbucking) arrangement so you can't use if with a single-coil pickup in the bridge without getting hum even when the two pickups are blended in the middle. Most commonly a hum cancelling J pickup is used in the bridge so that both the P and J pickup are both hum cancelling and you don't get the hum problem. You can, in theory use a single coil J pickup in the bridge, but potentially you will always have hum (ie you can't blend it out other than by soloing the p pickup).
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Thanks Mark! HC it is then.
 
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bass12 said:
No, same pickups (Sad hum cancelling on both).
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But that's just it... there's no such thing as "Sadowsky" pickups. They're all made by other vendors, and they use different vendors for different pickups. I can't remember the matrix right now, but it bears checking out and verifying. I seem to recall there were some diffs between the 4 string models and the 5 string models.
 
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But that's just it... there's no such thing as "Sadowsky" pickups. They're all made by other vendors, and they use different vendors for different pickups. I can't remember the matrix right now, but it bears checking out and verifying. I seem to recall there were some diffs between the 4 string models and the 5 string models.
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No so! There is such a thing as Sadowsky pickups because they are custom made to my specs. I never said I wind them in house. Both the 4 and 5 string pickups are based on the same design and made at the same place. Same for the 4 and 5 string single coils.

Roger
 

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