No longer available Sadowsky NYC Modern Mahogany body Ziricote Top Madagascar RW Fretboard OHSC

Picked this up directly from Roger & CO, just to hear the wood combo.
I'm enamored of this particular design/pickup placement, but have never fully bonded with the slap tone.

More 'doink' in the tone (ala Ken Smith) when what I really need is that Marcus 'sploink'. Thankfully I'm a spoiled bastard with no gigs at the moment who has that very bass in the ash/maple Metro MV5

However ...

If you like a mid-range rich, textured fingerstyle tone with more warmth to the tone than an ash/maple variant of this design, I highly recommend this one.

It's light, it only has one little boo-boo on hit (pics to come), it has a hardshell case that you could hide behind and survive a Tommy Gun attack.


More pics/clips to come.

This baby's light by the way. I gather that some of you folks like that sort of thing. 8lbs (maybe a hair less) with no neck dive.

 

Ziracote:

Not a type of lacquer.

 

Comforts me to know that someone else's brain works the same way!

 

This one's for:

• Folks who like a lean tonal presence on the band-stand that is still warm and round on each note. Just very surgical and 'punchy' (hate that word but it applies here)
• Thinking Jazz guys who need a fretted bass to fit that genre. Exceptional note clarity/separation for soloing chords
• Neck pickup gets a passable P-bass tone, just not as 'yuge'.
• Someone who likes that 'Ken Smith-y' slap tone, with a bit less hi-end zing than an ash/maple variant.

 

It is, and even a techno-phobe like me (this'n comm-pewter ain't got no strings) has figured out how to record on his iPad.




More to come.

 

Much obliged sir!

 

I realize that I didn't get any of the new recordings that I promised over the weekend.

Combination of bratty kids and some day-drinking. May or may not be related ... those two things.

So ...

To put into language how this bass sounds:

1) Both pickups, VTC off: boo-boop ... boo-beep-boop

2) Neck Pickup, VTC off: Imagine a hot lady stripper in a cop outfit, related to how closely this neck pickup sounds like a true Pbass. You know the difference ... that she really doesn't have legal
standing to arrest you, but you kind of hope she does anyways.

3) Bridge Pickup, VTC off: bup ... bip ... JacoJacoJacoJaco


For sounds with the VTC on, add the words 'sparkle' and 'sheen'.

The slap tone is more Seinfeld 'doink' than Marcus 'sploink'.

 

I almost thought you were asking about those verbal horse-apples I threw down. LOL

VTC all the way off on that one.

 

That’s as dead on as one can get. Thanks!

 

Dr Stings is my blues name.

It has Sadowsky Blue-label Roundwounds.

 

Pecans ...

1) Pee-cans?
2) Puh-Khans

It depends on how much I've had to drink.