Considering a Stingray - Should I?
 

I bought the pair below a few weeks ago and am very happy with both of them.

However, I am thinking of spoiling myself this Christmas with a third bass to keep these two company.

I've found myself being drawn to playing the music of my youth - 1970's Disco and Funk and thought that I should look at a Stingray or maybe Sterling.

Will a Musicman bass bring anything significant to my party, or do I have all the basses covered?

I think it would fill a void, but that's JMHO. Either an SR or ST would work for you.

The SR would round out that collection nicely!

Thanks, should I be looking at a single humbucker or HH configuration?

The neck HB doesn't impress me on mine. I only use the bridge HB on my HH and of course my SR Classic only has the 1 HB.

I've owned both the HH and single H, and in the beginning I thought the HH was better for me. I have since been using a single H, and it really has that signature SR sound. For some reason the placement of the PUPs in the HH misses that sweet spot slightly, but that's JMHO.

A single H Stingray sounds pretty good to me, but I'm not a Jazz player (I do like Precisions tho).

Try a HS if you dig the Fender single coil tine but you want a Ray tone as well. The H sounds identical on H, HS or HH to me...the variants will be wood and strings.

Beautyfull pair you have there. The jazz is simply gorgeous but I have a weakness for white basses.

A stingray is not my cup of tea. What I do see that´s missing is a fiver, unless is not your cup of tea.

Pick up a SR5 H and you're complete.

Definitely not my cup of tea - a five would spoil the disco vibe.

I have a Jazz and a Stingray - I like them both. They have their own distinctive personalities and voices and I like having both because of that. Just when I consider selling one and just going with one or the other, I find that I can never decide which should stay and which should go. So both are still in my stable and there is no sign that either will be going anywhere soon.

Now I would like to add a P-bass to my collection...

Not if you're wearing bell bottom and a head band!!

I fully understand about choice anxiety. The Jazz has to be number one for me, not least because looking at videos of my favourite songs - all of them, and do mean all of them; were recorded and performed with a Jazz Bass. Not a P in sight let alone a Stingray. Now I understand why. You can subtly pick the Jazz with your fingers and the mids and highs still come through the mix, this isn't possible with the Precision - that has to be hit hard to be heard and that's fine of course for Rock but not for Donna Summer.

I agree that the Jazz bass is very versatile and probably would win if I were forced to choose. Fortunately I am not forced!

My first bass was a P and I miss it dearly! A P-bass has such a distinctively P sound which I can only describe as meaty! I can simulate a P sound with my Jazz by favoring the neck pickup - but there is still just something about the pure P sound that is so right, especially for good old classic rock and roll.

I will have one in the not to distant future, count on it.

I bought my P almost exclusively for my Thin Lizzy covers and maybe some Blues.

Hey - don't forget the Chest Wig!

Its a fiver but shows the HS sounds the same as a H....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxlSpTbbJVY

..and I ain't much of a slap player, but the Ray IS the slap bass tone....as well as punchy as hell for finger and pick.

I don't know... when I think of disco and the slap octaves, I always think of a P bass tone. Like the sample for "Men In Black" or the original "Forget Me Nots". Of course I'll probably find out now that it was recorded on a Rick.

(I'm just discussing, hope I'm not sounding argumentative. Text can always be read with different inflection.)