2eq Stingray in black - what board works best for a 2eq?

it matters not tonally. go with what looks the best in your eyes.

 

I'd be curious to know if you hear much difference on your 3-band EQ's with maple vs. rosewood

 

Personally, I think maple has more 'snap' than rosewood, which is pretty round and even sounding.

 

I find that maple boards have a little more "snap" on the attack, that's what I hear anyway.

 

Man ,beat me to that one.

 

yeah, i've heard this "snap" business before, but i don't buy into it. how do you prove it? you really can't. and goosing the treble will also add more snap if you want snap.

 

+1- it's just a visual- any tonal differences are just in your head. The brain is a tricky little devil.

 

Maple sounds brighter because it looks brighter.

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I've always prefered maple boards on stingrays, especially if they're black.

 

I strongly disagree. I'm a pretty percussive player, perhaps there's differences in our techniques that effect the differences we hear or don't hear. I'm simply dismissing the idea that there are no tonal differences between maple and rosewood fret boards, particularly on bolt-ons, IME anyway. I don't doubt that you don't hear a difference, I'm only saying that I do.

 

True

 

well how do you prove it? the fingerboard wood is a pretty insignificant chunk of wood compared to the rest of the instrument. how do you know it's not the rest of the instrument that's causing it?

 

Maple makes you a better player. We tested it in a lab at university.

 

With you Jimmy
The only way to have any kind of reasonable experiment would be to A/B the same bass, same strings, same amp, etc and swap the necks back and forth while making flat audio files

And if you find a difference, the next question would be, is it sizeable, and can it be easiy adjusted with a slight knob tweek

Suppose the tactile sensation is another reason to have a preferance although I hardly notice a difference

 

I'm not going to tell you that I've played two basses, identical in every detail except the fretboard because we all know there's no such thing. All I can do is speak from experience.
While the fretboard is fairly insignificant in terms of size(volume), it is "where the rubber meets the road" so to speak. If the mass of a bridge makes a difference, wouldn't the mass of the fretboard also make a difference?

 

i don't believe the mass of a bridge makes a lick of difference either

 

Graphite neck manufactures go through the trouble of developing materials to sink their frets into for tonal reasons, but who knows, maybe thats just marketing to win over the wood-lovers.
Clearly, a lame physics discussion is pointless, next thing you know we'll be talking about terminal velocity and equations that nobody can understand. I think we should just disagree.

 

i wouldn't understand it anyway

 

I have to say from experience as well that maple and rosewood do have different sounds, and although the fingerboard is a relatively insignificant piece of wood (mass-wise), the difference in construction styles (EG a maple board being a continuous and unified part of the neck (in some cases) and a rosewood board being a glued fixture) could create the tonal differences rumored and heard by many. I for one wouldn't describe it as snap, but rather a sort of hollowed woodiness from my maple boarded jbass.

I for one favor Higher mass bridges as well, as they seem to ass a distinctive upper midrange bite to my jazz basses. In my experience of course

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