Stingray 5 B String Issue Please Help

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I've had this bass for about 8 years and I love it, well most of it. The B string has always sounded and felt a litle, "dead." Its not floppy at all, it just has a sort of dead quality about it even with new strings, different string hieghts and truss rod adjustments. The notes produced lack the clarity and sustaing that the other strings can acheive.

The best way I can think of describing it is by comparing it the low B string to the feel of one of those basses you find at a friends house who used to play but just keeps it in the closet now, and when you pick it up, the action is high and the strings are old and grimey-- and you try playing a low G... thud.

Its kind of like that, except on my bass the action is low and the strings are new. The best sounding note is open B, it gets progresively thudier as you move up the neck and usually a little buzzy at about the 5th or 6th fret because of low action. The funny thuing is that the other stings are perfect.

Has anyone come across this and remedied it? If you know what to do please help. Could it be in the neck joint? I'm sick of going to GC and picking up a $400 5 string with a B string that is brilliantly piano-like and being jealous.