Doctor J

On top, vol-blend-tone with a two-way switch to bypass the preamp. Simple enough... 🙂 In the cavity, however, things get a little complicated 😂 Starting from the left, gain pots for each pickup. Just above the blend pot, there's a control which allows you to dial in how much the dummy coil (wrapped in copper below) is integrated and reduces hum. To the right there are bass-mid-treble gain pots. It's the kind of thing you set and live with until you pop the lid again, which is fine but just a bit too much hard work to adjust for me. Very clever, all the same, which is why I wanted to give it a chance. It's a really, really nicely designed and put together bass and the more straightforward Sadowsky preamp has turned it into a World Champion for me.

Yeah, it's an ebony board.

I am rapidly falling in love with the Blade B4 I picked up last year. Instantly, it felt right in hand and the build quality is superb but the somewhat quirky electronics took some getting used to. After living with it for many months, I recently popped a Sadowsky preamp in there instead and... yeah, this is really bang on now. I am very much smitten.

There are Metro lines made in Germany now with the Sadowsky name on the headstock. The Metro Express are made in Asia - China I think?

If Leo had started that forum, he would have gotten it right first time

If we're going to put inverted commas around every brand name where basses aren't made by the original dudes, we're going to wear the " key out fairly quickly.

Hmmm... ply body, like 🙃

Ahhh, Fender must have cut the shill budget, so.

For anyone missing it, the Talkbass answer to the question you were going to ask, no matter what question it was, is P bass, tort guard and flats.

What kind of thought process leads one to thinking this was an idea so good that even the feel of the chisel in hand wasn't accompanied with a deep sense of foreboding? https://www.ebay.ie/itm/ALEMBIC-Distillate/363343410822?hash=item5498f47686:g:lPkAAOSw~ddgW0Ol Let's not dig to deep into a seller in Japan with 90.5% Positive Feedback listing in Spanish 😂

Reversed P with a bridge J, both at full blast. Delicious.

You could send each other morse code messages via pop and slap

Will do!

No need, the next post told me to spend big. Problem solved.

You won't just tell me?

Nnnnnnice!

It's a really catchy song and the drumming is superb. I can think of a lot worse.

Practice while wearing platform boots so your head is much closer to the ceiling. Your own sense of self preservation will make you far more conscious of the proximity of the ceiling and, therefore, less likely to smasha-dee-bassa

Aaron Armstrong does. In my experience, they look the part but don't sound much like the originals though.

Thankfully, singlecuts do not appeal to me, not even Sadowskys.

Well done, fellas!

Is the wagging finger a sign from the T1000 to walk away?

That looks incredible. Top work.

There has never been more variety or options for a bassist, so it's a great time to have this choice to make but it can also be bewildering. That's a lot of money to spend on something you don't know whether you want or not. If it were me, I'd start with the basics: What size neck do you like? Chunky or slim? Precision sized nut or Jazz sized nut? If it's not right for your hand, you're never going to love it no matter what it sounds like. What kind of pickups do you like? P, P&J, J&J, J&MM, P&MM, MM, single coil soapbars or humbucking soapbars? Probably the most important consideration after neck size, in my opinion. You can change individual pickups but changing the type of pickup can require surgery. Is weight an issue? If you're uncomfortable with a heavy bass, you need to rule out heavy basses straight away. How many strings? Active or passive? Again, a massively important consideration. Like pickups, this can be changed afterwards but you're better off getting it right first time. Ergonomics - an extension of the neck consideration, I suppose, but do you need a forearm contour, for example? It's fine lashing out brand names at you but you need to figure out what type of bass you actually want first and then start looking at the options within that kind of specification across the range of brands. Only you know what kind of neck you like. If you post examples of the kind of tone you like, it would be easier to make recommendations on how to get that kind of sound.