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Club Sadowsky!!!

#9,561
Vic said:
Here's my current trio of joy... :)

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Gorgeous basses, Vic!
 
#9,564
A report on the first gig with the PJ. A loose party jam with my usual guitarist and keyboard player, along with a pickup drummer. We actually played as a trio for about an hour before the drummer showed up. Did a mix of jazz standards, jazz funk, and even a psychedelic version of Sunshine of Your Love. The keyboard player showed up with a new axe - a set of midi marimbas. Never seen that before. It was very cool, and it was odd to see him hitting a marimba and getting an organ or synth sound out of it.

I've never owned a P-bass, so I figured I'd end up rolling a little more towards the bridge pickup to remain in more familiar waters. Wrong. The PJ killed on almost all the tunes. On many I actually rolled a bit more onto the neck pickup to get a little bigger/rounder tone, then rolled to the bridge for a solo, then back. The slap tone was all that and a bag of chips, and I ended up doing a lot more percussive attacks than I ever did on the Zon fretted.

I did bring the fretless and was reminded why I will never sell it. It is just sublime. The Sadowsky can do sublime, but it also can go for the throat. I think the alder/morado PJ is an ideal combination. I know that I'll soon order an ash/maple/JJ as well, as that is a different beast. For now though I'm still figuring out the PJ. I ended up usually in the middle of the pan or a little more P, with about 1 quarter turn of both treble and bass. This was running through an older Ashdown ABM-500 into an EA VL-110. Amazingly large sounding tone in a small setup.

Thumbs way up. Highly recommended on all counts, and the PJ covers a lot of sonic territory.
 
#9,570
jonno1707 said:
Vic I think you really need an Ash/maple bass for your collection...;)
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Yeah, I know... :rollno: :), sometimes I'm just a SERIOUS creature of habit, but in my own defense, these all have fairly different sounds. Just some core things I really need are the same amongst them. :)
 
#9,573
Ok, I posted this in Part #9 right before it closed, so it might not have been read. These threads are full of beautiful, GAS inducing wonderful basses.....mainly new ones. With Roger celebrating his 30th anniversary, that means there are allot of Sadowsky basses (and guitars) out there. So I am very interested.....where are all the old ones hiding?? Are there no TB'rs out there with ripe old broken-in Sadowsky's?
 
#9,576
ClassicJazz said:
Ok, I posted this in Part #9 right before it closed, so it might not have been read. These threads are full of beautiful, GAS inducing wonderful basses.....mainly new ones. With Roger celebrating his 30th anniversary, that means there are allot of Sadowsky basses (and guitars) out there. So I am very interested.....where are all the old ones hiding?? Are there no TB'rs out there with ripe old broken-in Sadowsky's?
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seriously,

would love to see some "vintage" ones from the 80s!
 
#9,580
Jerry Ziarko said:
I still say Vic's sunburst quilt, is one of the sickest basses I've ever seen. That thing is amazing.
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I usually do not like the burst/tortie/maple look but that bass makes it work. I think the quilting is able to compete with the patterns on the pickguard.

I'm already trying to figure out if the partner to the PJ will be MV5, MS5, or a NYC...this place is evil...EVIL I tell ya.
 

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