Sadowsky Metroline Will Lee 4
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Roger Sadowsky established his reputation for outstanding restoration and repairs on guitars and basses almost 40 years ago. In the ’80s, when the price of vintage became out of reach, he started to build instruments from scratch for working musicians, incorporating all improvements he had developed over the years including experience from building acoustic guitars.
He also worked with legendary musicians like Will Lee, Marcus Miller, Verdine White (to name a few) to create unique instruments with a legendary sound heard on numerous recordings.
Roger Sadowsky is today one of the most respected instrument builders in the world. At the head of an experienced team, he continuously works on improvements and innovation to deliver the best instruments for his customers.
Making music with a Sadowsky instrument can only result in complete satisfaction.
Sadowsky Metrolines
The new German-made Sadowsky Metroline is made by Warwick on a licensing deal with Sadowsky where Roger Sadowsky is fully involved and behind all decisions regarding design, branding, and most important quality.
We here at Bass Buddha see this as a great match, the genius of Roger Sadowsky with the incredible strong factory that Warwick has where the Production Manager Marcus Spangler roam controlling everything from bass guitar making to buying woods with great expertise. Marcus has collected over the years one of Europe’s probably biggest amount of woods ready to get build into basses.
So American and German engineering kind of rimes with excellent quality and supreme tone that we all like and know from Sadowsky.
Metroline Will lee
The sound of the bass is very clean with a lot of information in the tone which is the perfect starting point for sculpture your sound in many directions without fighting with the electronics and overdoing EQ to get the result you want.
The alder body gives you a very balanced sound with the mid-range cutting through with a great sustain and extra attack this combined with the Morado fingerboard warm and deep sound that reminds of Rosewood you got a versatile stunner of an instrument.
The classic near-legendary onboard preamp is also in all of the metroline basses. It features a volume, balance, and VTC (Vintage Tone Control) which basically is a cutoff that works both in active and passive mode if you pull out.
On this Will Lee Signature model there is also and extra Mid boost to cut even more through the mix
This is truly a beautiful bass with a super-rich tone and a lot of punch
Specs
Body
- Body Wood
- Alder
- Color
- Natural Transparent Satin
Neck
- Neck Wood
- Maple
- Fingerboard
- Morado
- Scale
- 34"
- Frets
- 21
- Strings
- 4
- String Spacing
- 19mm
- Headstock
- Standard
- Fret Size
- 21 Nickel silver (W x H: 2.4 mm x 1.3 mm)
- Nut Width
- 38.5 mm
- Nut
- Graph Tech TUSQ
Electronics
- Preamp
- Sadowsky 2-band EQ + the on/off Will Lee Boost
- Vintage Tone Control
- Knob with push/pull function for preamp bypass
- Stacked Knob
- Treble And Bass Controls + 18 dB boost at 40 Hz + 18 dB boost at 4 kHz
- Pickup
- 2 Sadowsky J-style single coils in the vintage position
Hardware
- Bridge
- Sadowsky
- Tuning Machines
- Sadowsky Light with open gears
- Hardware Finish
- Chrome
- Pickguard
- Tortoise
Weight
- Weight
- 3,5Kg
Accessories
- Tools
- Includes an Allen key, adjustment set, polishing cloth, an individual certificate of authenticity.
- Gig bag
- Sadowsky Portabag