Club Sadowsky!!!

[Dr. Cheese]

Never underestimate what a good setup can do! I played this 24 Fret Metroline and told the salesman that it is a nice bass and they should give it a setup. Someone did and this bass is wonderful now!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

If I buy a really nice bass this year, it will be this one:

 

[mgmadian]

This coil cut switch only works with our newest version of our stacked 5 string J pickup. You would have to rout your pickup cavities deeper to accommodate the depth of the pickup.

Hi all, looking to clarify if only the relatively newer (circa 2020?) Stacked 5 J pickups can be coil-cut, while the previous Stacked 5 J pickups cannot?

Also wondering how close the Stacked 5 pups in coil-cut mode sound as compared to 'true' single-coils. Probably splitting hairs here, just curious

Thanks, any insight appreciated!

 

[pb9717]

Got this 2021 leftover for a song. Gonna do the magic ( Hipshot Bridge & string tree, VTC full plate, D-Tuner) I put my Elixir’s on it, and it set up SO WELL. With all the upgrades it’ll be a spectacular #2 to my Japan Modern 4. Love Love Love when I catch one of these deals. Really nice piece of Pau Ferro too. Lovely.

 

[eee]

Here's my Sadowsky preamp epiphany:

The blend knob is the mids knob. I feel like this also makes the reverse wiring of the blend knob make sense - rotate clockwise for more mids, anticlockwise for less mids. Bass and treble knob work the same, clockwise for more and anticlockwise for less. For me, the pickup blend decides how much I want to stand out.

I add bass to taste. I like to get some booty, so I usually add some bass. The treble knob is for when my strings are dead or I want to do some slapping. The treble knob helps get that good scoopy sound when the blend is centered and makes me feel like I can pull off Marcus Miller licks lol.

Passive tone knob? Not useful. Don't care for it. I crank it open and ignore it.

 

[pb9717]

How I spent my New Year’s Eve………..The two latest, on the bench ( kitchen island) Both soon getting VTC’s ( sounds like an STD). Hipshot trees on the headstock, Hipshot A bridge, and pickup cover on the fretless. That P/J has got some very special mojo. I’ve had ALOT of these chinese Sadowsky’s come across my bench, but man…this particular P/J is just the easiest playing bass I’ve had in a long time. Lightening fast action, great fret work on this one. A incredible stroke of luck. These 2021’s have the upgraded bridge, but the slimmer neck vs the newer roasted models. I was seriously considering putting a Will Lee pre in it, but the close to $300 cost made it a non starter. Full standard VTC plate should arrive from fretnation next week. Wiring the VTC standalone kit into an older pre now for the fretless. SO many mods. So little time.

 

[Chrishi87]

Here's my Sadowsky preamp epiphany:

The blend knob is the mids knob. I feel like this also makes the reverse wiring of the blend knob make sense - rotate clockwise for more mids, anticlockwise for less mids. Bass and treble knob work the same, clockwise for more and anticlockwise for less. For me, the pickup blend decides how much I want to stand out.

I add bass to taste. I like to get some booty, so I usually add some bass. The treble knob is for when my strings are dead or I want to do some slapping. The treble knob helps get that good scoopy sound when the blend is centered and makes me feel like I can pull off Marcus Miller licks lol.

Passive tone knob? Not useful. Don't care for it. I crank it open and ignore it.

What are you talking about? Bass and Treble are boost only and don´t have a centered position.

 

[projectapollo]

I listed a set of 5-string TI Flats removed from my Japan Metro Sadowsky Jazz. Very little use. Thanks for looking.
TI Flats 5 String

 

[EdO.]

Here's my Sadowsky preamp epiphany:

The blend knob is the mids knob. I feel like this also makes the reverse wiring of the blend knob make sense - rotate clockwise for more mids, anticlockwise for less mids. Bass and treble knob work the same, clockwise for more and anticlockwise for less. For me, the pickup blend decides how much I want to stand out.

I add bass to taste. I like to get some booty, so I usually add some bass. The treble knob is for when my strings are dead or I want to do some slapping. The treble knob helps get that good scoopy sound when the blend is centered and makes me feel like I can pull off Marcus Miller licks lol.

Passive tone knob? Not useful. Don't care for it. I crank it open and ignore it.

What are you talking about? Bass and Treble are boost only and don´t have a centered position.

If I may, IMO the blend does seem to work sort of like a mid adjustment. I usually have mine centered, then I'll go a bit one way or the other depending on what I think I need to add to what I'm hearing from the rest of it (both bass and treble at about 30% boost). Never really thought of it that way but makes sense to me.

 

[Vic]

...Bass and treble knob work the same, clockwise for more and anticlockwise for less...

What are you talking about? Bass and Treble are boost only and don´t have a centered position.

Yeah, it's hard to tell if he just means to say add some and then take it away again, or if he really thinks it's boost and cut. But yeah, boost only.

...(both bass and treble at about 30% boost)...

I don't know if this is why you're doing this, but as long as we're talking mids... I've heard of people calling their "zero" on a Sadowsky with both Bass and Treble boosted to some extent so they feel they can "cut" one or both of them as needed, but there are two artifacts to doing this, which at least for me, are negative.

1.) By boosting only B and T, you're effectively doing the same thing as an overall gain boost, EXCEPT it also contains a mid cut as a relative result. I don't like that.

2.) If you're like me, and have to bring multiple instruments to a gig (some alternate tuning songs), unless they're both basically the same kind of Sadowsky, now you're also going to have gain differences between the two you have to compensate for on instrument switch, since the boosted Sadowsky is going to be hotter than the other instrument. I also don't like that. Yes, you can solve that by twisting a knob or switching to a patch/scene specifically to address that in your chain, but to me that's a pain in the ass.

FWIW.

 

[Chrishi87]

On my VTC I have my Volume Full, VTC, Bass and Treble point to the other side. For me, a perfect sound.
Balance slightly to the Bridge Pickup.

 

[nickpc]

On my VTC I have my Volume Full, VTC, Bass and Treble point to the other side. For me, a perfect sound.
Balance slightly to the Bridge Pickup.

That's where I start as well, then will open up the VTC to taste. The Bass and Treble rarely leave the 0 position. And that's both on my SML PJ 5-21 and NYC JJ 4-21, although I tend to open up the VTC and play with the pickup blend more on the NYC.

 

[RobertAuCoin]

OTOH, some like it hot.

 

[eee]

What are you talking about? Bass and Treble are boost only and don´t have a centered position.

Never said they did? I said you turn it one way to get more. The other direction takes it away. Obviously you cannot take it away if it's full anticlockwise. What are you talking about?

 

[Fuzzbass]

Never said they did? I said you turn it one way to get more. The other direction takes it away. Obviously you cannot take it away if it's full anticlockwise. What are you talking about?

To some degree it's semantics, but your wording creates confusion: with boost-only you can only "get more". You can never "take away", you can only dial in "less more". More seriously: the standard definition of "take away" in the context of equalizers is "cut", or subtract from zero/flat.



That aside: happy new year, everyone. I'm happy with all the basses in my collection, but the black P5 in my avatar is still my #1. It'll turn 20 this April!

 

[EdO.]

I don't know if this is why you're doing this, but as long as we're talking mids... I've heard of people calling their "zero" on a Sadowsky with both Bass and Treble boosted to some extent so they feel they can "cut" one or both of them as needed, but there are two artifacts to doing this, which at least for me, are negative...

I'm quite aware that Blend and Midrange aren't the same things and that the settings I'm using leave me with a somewhat scooped midrange. IMO by using the Blend to add a bit more neck or bridge pickup I can fine tune the tone to suit what I'm hearing from the bass to help dial in what I'm trying to get to tonally, so functionally Blend acts just like another tone control. I don't need the ability to cut treble or bass to get the sound I want from my ME so adding the VTC pre is for me unnecessary to get the sound I want from my bass. Works for me.

 

[JimS]

Incoming

 

[who]

Incoming

How does the pickup selection work on this?

 

[JimS]

How does the pickup selection work on this?

Six position rotary:
1 bridge
2 bridge + mid
3 bridge + neck
4 mid+ neck
5 neck
6 all three on

Or something quite similar to that.

 

[who]

Six position rotary:
1 bridge
2 bridge + mid
3 bridge + neck
4 mid+ neck
5 neck
6 all three on

Or something quite similar to that.

Oh right, I forgot that rotary selectors are an option. I thought it was a standard blend control. Cool!