Anyone Actually use the Foam Mutes on a Music Man Bass?

That looks like a classic musicman not an old bass. The pickguard didint look like that

 

That is a beauty!

 

When I had a Stingray with mutes, I used them. It was a nice, darker sound with no sustain.

 

I have 30 year old Musicman fivers and they didn't come with foam mutes.

 

That is a fairly new Classic Stingray 5, not a 30 year old bass.

 

He was mistaken. It's still a cool bass, though, what did you pay?

 

Sorry my man the trusted salesman duped you and there is no way he did not know unless he knows nothing and has no access to the internet. This is a Stingray 5 1990 note the pickguard and body carve, yours is a slab body.

 

Don't be so hasty. There are a few old ones like that, and yours looks like one of them. The preamp might have a date sticker on it...

 

That bass never existed in the past. The OP has a Classic Stingray 5, which is a modern bass created by EB at the same time as the current classic series basses. Interestingly the "Classic" moniker with regard to this bass is actually misnomer.

 

That's a StingRay Classic 5. I have the same bass (color and everything). I also have a 1992 StingRay 5 (so, nearly - gasp! - 30 years old) and they are very different.

To answer the question, I used the mutes for about five minutes. They aren't exactly quick to dial up or down so you kind of have to commit to using them or not.

 

That beautiful salmon colored Stingray is about five or six years old. The original SR5’s had the oddly shaped pick guard, a coil splitter and a three band eq like a Sterling. The five string Classic is what such a bass would have looked like if the original Music Man had come in a five. It has mutes because it emulates the Seventies Stingrays.

 

Great looking bass. I hesitated a few years ago and didn't jump on a Classic 4 string with that color option. That being said, your bass is definitely a recent 5 string Classic series and a great bass.

 

Okay , took me 5 seconds to Google "1990 stingray 5" that was the first image. Obvious differences. Misinformed? Okay.
Stingray 5 classic for sale take a look
For Sale - Musicman Classic 5 Stingray - Sunburst

Cool bass either way I love the Salmon and white pickup cover.
The price is good to you, cool .

The mutes would not see much use by me.

 

I am not calling him a crook. Salesmen often do not know as much as they act like they do. I ran across an American made Music Man S.U.B. Stingray 5 that was labeled as an import although the headstock clearly said made in SLO. It was $249 when it should have been at least twice that.