Doctor J

Picture the scene, you're playing The Chain at the start of your village's Formula 1 Appreciation Society weekly meeting and you get to the big breakdown. You're playing a regular acoustic, what happens next? Nothing, other than you bringing shame upon the entire village and the meeting starts on a massive downer. That's what. With this, you flip it over and it's GO GO GO! Not all heroes wear capes.

Or for defusing those awkward campfire moments when some thoughtless deviant says "Well, someone needs to be the bass player!"

Hendrix - Third Stone from the Sun

Swiss design, made in Japan. I'd imagine a lot of thought went into somewhat keeping a traditional aesthetic while offering advanced (for 30 years ago) electronics.

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!