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Show Your Sadowsky UV70
- Thread starter Bass Boy
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I'll take yours!
Sorry about that . . . or not.
If it's any consolation, I'm toying with the idea of selling it to fund my dream Sadowsky, which would be pretty much a copy of this one:
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I don't play fivers all that much any more.
Wow, you try to start a thread with ONLY UV70 Sadowskys...:scowl:
We do have a few other Sadowsky threads where we can post these...
We do have a few other Sadowsky threads where we can post these...
Do most of you guys buy these basses for the cosmetic differences (blocks & binding, full-size body) or the tonal differences ('70s pickup spacing, full-size body) from the standard or vintage lines? I ask this because you have the option of ash/maple or alder/morado on both the ultra-vintage and vintage lines, and I see many morado fingerboards on here.
Also, I wonder how much difference in tone there would be between two identical bass, one with '70s spacing and one with '60s spacing.
Also, I wonder how much difference in tone there would be between two identical bass, one with '70s spacing and one with '60s spacing.
I just bought two because I wanted to have a backup bass that looked different from the one I already had 
I purchased the ultra vintage model firstly because my only point of reference was fender jazz basses, not having been able to try sadowsky basses. I wanted what I percieved to be the ultimate jazz bass and so I thought I'd go for the more traditional approach with the full sized body. For the same reason I went with the single coils
I was going to get a vintage model but just before I purchased a friend of mine purchased a bass identical to mine (see picture on the top of this page) except that it had the humcancelling pickups. Having tried that bass and liked it I purchased the mine.
In a perfect world where money was no object I would purchase an alder model with rosewood fingerboard although I doubt that that there would be a very different tone from this wood combo.
Incidentally, maybe Eddy Flycatcher can chime in about the difference in tone between his two UV.
I was going to get a vintage model but just before I purchased a friend of mine purchased a bass identical to mine (see picture on the top of this page) except that it had the humcancelling pickups. Having tried that bass and liked it I purchased the mine.
In a perfect world where money was no object I would purchase an alder model with rosewood fingerboard although I doubt that that there would be a very different tone from this wood combo.
Incidentally, maybe Eddy Flycatcher can chime in about the difference in tone between his two UV.
There isn´t a lot of difference in tone (both have Sadowsky Humcancelling pu´s) it´s just that the one with the maple neck is a little brighter, but not much.
The biggest difference I have found is when I put nickel strings on one, that drasticaly changed the sound, it went all muddy, sounded even worse than the stainless steel strings I took off that had been on there for almost a year!
