LukeFRC

<Edit> Dave Swift's old </Edit> 5 string Sadowsky P anyone? https://thebassgallery.com/collections/bass-new-arrival/products/sadowsky-nyc-p5

You mean my old one? what a sound. @4000 if I were you (and seeing you play sat down) keep pestering @warwickhunt till he sells it to you (might take a while)

I would imagine it’s thick enough to be ok. The amount of carbon in the neck seemed a lot!

Try the doctor tonelab stuff - it’s worth it. worth finding the video of how he’s got the patch sounding, some things, compression and envelope filters for example are so dependent on the bass and player so need a fair bit of tweaking to get dialled in

I’m liking this

Second time writing on this thread - and while last time it was a bass this time it was some strings. As before a brilliant experience

Just measured my Lakland (USA) and that’s 18-19mm explains why I found it so easy to aw I switch too!

Nut - that’s what I meant!

nice

This in my book is a classic design small and ergonomic. The original adjustable bridge too is a simple and good design, I love the way the tuners told backwards on two planes too.

What are you after pick guard wise? I went for tort on mine and it was a fraction of the cost to get bass doc make one over here. From memory with shipping and customs it ended. Up over £100

I think I preferred the DR strings, but to be honest I'm listening on laptop so not the best comparison... but more importantly - is that a guitar stand built into a bookcase? genius if so.

I wish I had another

It was late, I was tired, I’m not good at spelling and spelling beige was beyond me at that point!! erm no - to my ears the Will Lee is the one I like the sound of the most. It was nice to get the Warwick our again too. I forget how nice it is to play

See I've a theory that people did listen on the phone... and it is the brightest sounding of them too... but now maybe the "warmer" is that classic Warwick growl. The alternative theory is that people listen with their eyes, and don't like Warwicks... but it's a great bass, a lovely 1991 streamer stage 1, Chris at Alpher Instruments sorted the frets for me years back so it plays absolutely amazingly and it's got some brilliant Bart pickups in it. Oddly if I turned the drums off it doesn't sound that good. Sadowsky was without the WL switch engaged. And yes three times. It's the newest and I'm still not 100% about this whole 5 string thing so it was an opportunity to hear how it sounded. Yep, I just need to work out how to play in with the B string!

So for the one person watching (hi @bassfan!) the answers are in the second post. What I wasn't expecting is the Warwick to be the favourite by such a long way!

What settings do you use on it? I need to fiddle with mine as it makes it a bit hissy

As we're snowed under with people guessing I'll stick the answers up tomorrow!

I've made it a bit easier now with a multiple choice options...

Good point... I've made it a bit simpler above with a multiple choice. Not sure I want to say exactly what the 4 basses are as it's more interesting to know what people ears are telling them rather then their eyes. I mean their ears are probably telling them I need to practice way more and don;'t know how to record... but I wouldn't disagree with that!

The better test would be sticking some fender pickups and passive loom in a Sadowsky - and then Sadowsky pickups in a fender... but even then there’s so many variables that it would be a slightly pointless exercise. ive played Sadowsky I’ve loved and ones I haven’t. Ones that sound pants if you turn off the preamp, and ones that still sound great. ive found an even bigger range of good to great in Fenders too. If I were building a bitsa jazz and wanted it to sound like a fender I would be getting a BBOT bridge and warm sounding pickups. If I wanted to get closer to Sadowsky sound I would be using inset bolts to get a really tight neck joint and a heavy bridge. I would get some clean clear pickups like nordstrands that have a well defined high mid. I recorded all my basses on the thread I made last night - can you tell which is the Sadowsky?

Answers Clip 1 Green : Lakland 55-94 (Neck and rear coil of bridge, wearing new Lakland Nickels) Clip 2 Orange: Sadowsky Will Lee (Both pickups, tone down a bit a slight bass boost, wearing very old Sadowsky blue labels I think) Clip 3 Blue: Lakland 55-94 (Neck pickup, wearing new Lakland Nickels) Clip 4 Red: G&L L1000 (wearing Chromes) Clip 5 Grey: Warwick Streamer Stage 1 (I think both pickups and wearing newish DR Fatbeams I think) Clip 6 Oatmeal: Lakland 55-94 (Bridge pup in humbucker mode, wearing new Lakland Nickels)

Just for fun I made a wee comparison... Six clips... but only four basses. Two of the clips are the same bass again but with a different settings and hand positions, just to make it a little bit harder. Can you guess what they are? Explanation: We're all shut inside and I realised my HX Stomp is an audio interface and it would be worth trying out. I've never really recorded anything before into my laptop... Setup is Bass>HX stomp> Garageband.... I was struggling with gain levels a bit so took a feed from the Stomp into a mixer and had bass and the drum track into it... goodness knows how bad my timing actually is. Drum loop is one of the prebuilt Garageband ones because hearing bass outside the context of a band isn't that interesting. Plus my timing is bad enough with a drum track! I have no idea what I'm playing! It's something I came up with that covers all four strings. I mess it up quite a bit. I've never claimed to be a good player!! It was late, "oh iMovie will be easier than Premier pro" I thought... How wrong was I. I do claim to be a professional graphic designer so ignore the visuals iMovie made... I should have used comic sans and pretended it's ironic... All basses have completely different strings and controls are set "how I would play them live" rather than any nominal "flat" setting. It's not scientific sorry. I tend to have any preamps that some of the basses may or may not have flat, or tiny bits of boost or cut anyway. I tried to equalise volume as best I could in Garageband... Everything is flat in Garageband except one that had crazy top end I tamed slightly The HX stomp is as flat as it can be with no blocks whatsoever used. I made this for fun. Also to start thinking about if I need so many basses. the DIY bitsa of my own design in my profile picture got sold, so they are all basses that have been either mass produced or small scale production built and would have been available at a decent large music shop when they were released... nothing super boutique. Sorry again for my playing.