Getting My P Bass to sound like a stingray

[fasto]

maybe this HYBRID pickup from Delano might help if you place it near the bridge ....



.... combined with one Jazz pickup and the Sonar 2 preamp you should be able to switch between Stingray and Jazz bass sound .... ahhh, you want to keep the Precision sound, right?

I bought those pickups very cheap 2nd hand with the Sonar 2 preamp but i don´t have any project to place them in at the moment .... i really have no idea if it really works what the marketing bla bla of Delano says: Stingray and Jazz in one bass.

[MuzikMan]

I think you can get close to a P-bass or a Stingray with a passive J-bass. I am not saying you could nail either one, but it would be close enough if you are throwing hand grenades!

[fleabee]

Originally Posted by NineSpine

The stingray sound and the P sound are nearly opposite ends of the bass tone spectrum. You are kind of asking for a miracle. Short of routing out a new pickup, I don't really think what you want is possible.

I might be wrong though, so we will just have to see if anyone has any ideas.

on the money...

[BonsaiBass]

Originally Posted by fasto

maybe this HYBRID pickup from Delano might help if you place it near the bridge ....



.... combined with one Jazz pickup and the Sonar 2 preamp you should be able to switch between Stingray and Jazz bass sound .... ahhh, you want to keep the Precision sound, right?

I bought those pickups very cheap 2nd hand with the Sonar 2 preamp but i don´t have any project to place them in at the moment .... i really have no idea if it really works what the marketing bla bla of Delano says: Stingray and Jazz in one bass.

Clod these pickups be used in a passive bass or are they just for active? I read the description in the site but couldnt really understand it...

[bigmuff113]

Maybe got a Blacktop or Modern Player P or J with HBs?

[BullHorn]

Never replace a P with a Ray.

Buy a Ray and keep the P. Do it.

[DaniKettu]

Originally Posted by Eric!

Yep. I bought an ATK to replace my Stingray when I sold it to fund a summer trip. Heavy bugger, but whatever.
Not exactly sure why this thread is in effects...but, if only someone would invent a sliding pick-up..

My former bass teacher had bass with sliding pickup. You could even switch the pickup. If my memory serves me right he had humbucker and single coil. There were tons of different tones that he could get from that bass. But that bass is probably one of a kind and was made by finnish luthier.

[DWBass]

A shortcut is to use a modeling type of pedal. I have a Zoom B2 and there is a setting that gives me all sorts of sparkle when using my P-Bass. Check out my video below. It was way more sparkling in person. The video didn't grab the true sound. I now have an active EMG in there and it's even more sparkly when I use that setting.

https://vimeo.com/39804575

Speaking about Delanos. Check out Otis and his modded P-Bass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evb1DXCBuIo

[Stealth]

I'm not sure who mentioned the Stingray's high-impedance pickup, but it's wired in parallel and actually measures low impedance (2kOhm). This low impedance keeps the pickup moe transparent and lets the preamp make a much bigger impact than it would with a high-impedance pickup.

That said, if you wired the Precision pickup in parallel and used a clone of the MM preamp (or made one yourself), you'd get fairly close. It'd be a bit deeper as the pickup's closer to the neck, but it'd work well.

[Crystalman85]

If you want a musicman type sound, you should save some cash for a musicman bass. arbor makes a pretty good passive musicman clone at a super affordable price. from my perspective, it sounded more like a sterling by musicman if it was passive. but hey, it's pretty close. you can find one on amazon and ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arbor-Four-C...item3f0f70aa3c

[Waterpilot]

Yeah a Sub Bass or ATK would probably be your best bet on the cheap.

[Sceptical1]

Okay! So two years later, I'm getting a SBMM bass XD

[gareth dunster]

I've seen a peavey bass with a sliding pickup. It's the house bass in a bar in hong kong.

[Darknut]

I have both .... you can't get a standard P to sound even lose to a MM.

One of my P/J's with a active EQ can get in the ball park with 100% bridge/25% neck pup lows kicked up 100% on the active-EQ

[uOpt]

It's perfectly reasonable to get get a Stingray pickup, have your Pbass routed in the right place, get a pickguard that cover the old pickup place.

You might even be able to get away without the active electronics and use e.g. a EQ pedal. The Seymour Duncan Stingray pickup is documented as working active and passive.

The trick here is to get a really clean route. Since the edges of the route will be visible that can be tricky. The hard paint might easily flake off no matter how careful you route.

Buying the pickup/electronics combo from an actual Stringray is probably not a good option since that costs $200-$250 and caseless Stingrays have been going through Ebay for $800 or even less lately.

[Duckwater]

My P/J can sound Ray-ish with the pickups in series and some extreme EQing(Scooping lots of mids, boosting lots of treble)

[Steve Dallman]

I recently built an original type, 2 band MM preamp and installed it in a friend's OLP, which was passive. It was hugely successful. The preamp is quite agressive, and changed that bass for the good.

Mating up that preamp (Baja design) with a P bass could help get you into that territory.