Al Krow

Exactly! In fact compulsory on every poll

Unlikely: carrots are massive on TB.

Sounds great!

John - you are, as ever. too kind. But... 😄 Hopefully the wider BC community of Stomp owners will step up - if we each contributed two comparative reviews we would probably have 50 or so! Oh, it looks like I've done my two 🤗

Yup their RM series seems to have been very well liked by our fellow BC'ers!

Nah, they wouldn't give a stuff about what we think tbf "Is Glasgow / York / Bristol etc** in London? I love London"...🤣 ** delete as applicable

I'm also a big fan of portability! Personally I'd want a minimum of 250W for a pub gig, as I am not putting the bass through our RCF 310A PA speakers. So I'd be looking at the Fender Rumble 500 rather than the 100, which puts out 350W without an extension cab. I played for four years with my MB combo - the only 'flaw' in the old LM3 heads was the EQ centre points and EQ 'black hole' between high mid and treble, but that's been addressed in the newer range. Otherwise I was very happy with it. However in terms of portability and comparable quality I'm not sure there is a combo out there that matches my BF SC (21 lbs) and D class head (another 6 lbs or so)? The BF, whilst really good, isn't the absolute best sounding cab I have played through**, although it's undoubtedly a step-up from my MB cab. But it's easily the most convenient and is a keeper because of its overall very good sound and weight. But when you're including price into the mix (even buying used) combos can definitely steal a march. [** I would rate a VK 210 MNT / LNT, Fearless F112 and Berg 212 all ahead of it].

Don't think the price was ever above (the already high) £1,299 over here.

I'd like to say "damning with faint praise". But phrases such as "I don't hear any character" and "doesn't inspire" suggests "damning" would be closer to the mark! This thread has been a bit of an eye opener for me. I was genuinely expecting Sadowskys to get a uniformly gushing fanboy response, but it's been a lot more marmite than I'd guessed it would be!

^^ +1 The end. You can close the thread now ped

Couple of threads which seem to have gone a bit quiet - first one focusing entirely on the WD 800, which may be worth a skim: I think the UK price tag has pretty much snaffled demand on this side of the pond. Not sure that anyone has actually bought one yet, so you could end up being the trail blazer for us

Shame that the 1k is no longer being made? And they don't seem to come up for sale that often. Yeh, yeh, yeh... all very well bringing out the nuances of bass tone of your different basses, having a brilliant EQ and generally making you sound great on stage. No one is interested in that guff... what we really need to know is does it look pretty? 😄

@woodyratm an FI, Manta, and C4! That's a LOT of filter and synth firepower you have there! What genre music are you playing?

In which case, I'd very much recommend keeping your eyes open for mint M6 as a potential alternative to the M9 to widen your chances of landing one.

Believe me parking a Ferrari at any of my local Tescos and expecting it to still be there when you return with your chicken nuggets, demonstrates a very optimistic world view...

Are you getting one / already bought? The Mesa M6 (which I have and absolutely rate!) is the same amp but with a less granular EQ. Tend to be a bit more common than the M9 and a little cheaper too, from what I have seen.

Kinda slightly amused after all the chat about HPF being applied from 80 Hz to tighten up the low end and why bass is all about musical mids etc etc. that the Sad pre is providing a clearly much liked boost at 40 Hz. Folk may start to get a taste for a meaty low end at this rate... As you say @thodrik tut tut! 😂

Try an Aguilar DB 751 Should be just as good, but double the weight and price of the M9 Oh wait, does that mean that the Mesa is just as good but half the weight and half the price of the Aggie? 😄

What a good idea!

@thodrik and @therealting - really helpful couple of posts thanks. Picking up on the last comment about the Sadowsky preamp DI, I did separately suggest to the OP that might be a very good / relatively inexpensive way to work out whether the Sadowsky tone would still be for him; however we weren't sure how close it would get to the real thing? Seems, from your comment, that the pedal preamp comes pretty close in terms of providing a "bottled" Sadowsky sound? If you were to try to put into words what that "Sadowsky sound" is, how would you describe it?

You are being entirely reasonable, as always. But tbf what he actually said was that [Sads are] "Not one for the bedroom bassist..." I take that to mean he thinks Sads are not a suitable bass if you're not in a band and just want to play it at home. I just find that hard to believe.

I have the same block when it comes to needing to learn to use yet another PC editor and/or "neuro-app". Just a psychological hurdle to jump, I guess. Is that just me being "neuro-tic"? I appreciate this is all much less of an issue for you youngsters who have no trouble mastering this stuff in a Fortnite!

I get all that. I just don't buy that a quality bass is only going to sound good loud. Or put it another way, I certainly wouldn't buy a quality bass that only sounded good loud!

It's obviously not uncommon that changing the volume setting on the bass itself has an impact on bass tone and e.g. a number of Yamaha BB players will have the bass volume knob set on max as the default as this gives them their preferred volume knob setting for 'base' tone. But are you saying that if you set your volume at max on your Metro, you find the tone changes as you increase the volume on your amp? I would have simply have expected it to just sound louder.

Thanks Phil. It is a big venue! However it has a very powerful airborne Bose PA system and a sound engineer was on site, so hares were set off needlessly by the (slightly clueless) person we were dealing with from the event organiser. In the end our PA stayed in the boot of my car! I used my bass rig as a stage monitor and took a post EQ DI out from my amp into the mixer and we obviously mic'd the drums and vocals, had a single stage monitor for vocals and the guitarist simply played through his VOX AC 30 (no DI or mic).