sadowsky on board tube preamp !!

[loudandclear]

www.sadowsky.com

Love it!!!!!

[acidbass]

Yeah, there was a discussion on this a few months ago about the onboard valve preamp - would love to hear how it sounds! Personally I'd just go down the outboard valve route, keep as much of the wood on the body as possible for tone reasons!

[Buzz]

That looks horrid, and those knobs are really small (fnarr) which probably make them unusable.

Then you've got the added fact of valve drawing power from a battery, and inside a bass, where it's going to have to be secured so it doens't come loose and you lose all sound.

Novel concept, but not one that should have seen reality imo.

[fatboytoo]

[quote name='Buzz' post='451613' date='Apr 1 2009, 03:44 PM']That looks horrid, and those knobs are really small (fnarr) which probably make them unusable.

Then you've got the added fact of valve drawing power from a battery, and inside a bass, where it's going to have to be secured so it doens't come loose and you lose all sound.

Novel concept, but not one that should have seen reality imo.[/quote]

Is it not April 1st?

[Buzz]

It might be, but you cannot be insisting that a bass manufacturer would delve into poor taste and do a joke on April The 1st? Shirly?

[Marcus]

Total April fool...... it's just the front of now defunkt SA200 photoshopped onto a bass..... LOL !!


"All the features that made the SA200 so desirable....." LMAO

Edited April 1, 2009 by Marcus

[fatboytoo]

[quote name='Buzz' post='451637' date='Apr 1 2009, 04:04 PM']It might be, but you cannot be insisting that a bass manufacturer would delve into poor taste and do a joke on April The 1st? Shirly?[/quote]

No - you're right. I've just ordered one, but there's already a backlog of orders apparently...

[waynepunkdude]

Can't believe I fell for that

[The Funk]

[quote name='Buzz' post='451613' date='Apr 1 2009, 03:44 PM']Novel concept, but not one that should have seen reality imo.[/quote]

I'm sure I saw a Takamine acoustic bass guitar with a valve preamp built-in a couple of years ago.

[The Funk]

Now that IS funny!

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='fatboytoo' post='451621' date='Apr 1 2009, 03:50 PM']Is it not April 1st? [/quote]

You would think people would clock wouldn't you?!

[waynepunkdude]

[quote]you will experience some warming against your body from the resulting tube heat being diffused by the rear control plate. In testing, we found this warmth to be not at all unpleasant, and one tester actually used the word "sensual" to describe it.[/quote]

I'm so stupid

[The Funk]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='451670' date='Apr 1 2009, 04:28 PM']I'm so stupid [/quote]

I'm actually sniggering at my desk now. Not at you - just the way they went completely over the top. "'Sensual'". That's the bit that really got me!

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='The Funk' post='451662' date='Apr 1 2009, 04:21 PM']I'm sure I saw a Takamine acoustic bass guitar with a valve preamp built-in a couple of years ago.[/quote]

Indeed - the Takamine cool tube. And that was a waste of time too...

[Kiwi]

Its been done in a bass too.



I present the Sandberg Reggie Worthy.

[BigRedX]

[url="http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=bassen&BassenID=14"]and by Bas Extravaganza[/url]

[Dubs]

Got to love April fools Anyway, I’d have thought it would be a bit impractical to power a couple of 12AX7s from 9V batteries; would they last very long?

[Mr. Foxen]

12Ax7s are abit impractical. There are plenty of other valve that would do the job at far less current draw. They used to be cheap and plentiful is probably why there are the standard preamp valve.