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Awesome Streamer
- Thread starter Dr. Cheese
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I get that. I LOVE how my StingRays sound, but there’s somethin special about the Streamer sound. Go back and listen to those first few 311 albums. P-Nut’s tone is marvelous. No StingRay has THAT much presence and growl
I'll add Incubus in this conversation. The streamer Dirk Lance used is a classic example of Warwick goodness.
I ‘m more partial to the Stage I, but i’m biased.
Oh yeah 1000%. I cut my teeth on SCIENCE for sure. Though for whatever reason 311 Music, Grassroots, and Transistor resonated with me much stronger. I STILL listen to SCIENCE with love and can not for the life of me understand how Incubus went from that sound to what they sound like now.
Well first they got Dirk to start playing fender more and at the same time they kept getting more and more generic to the point that they stopped sounding like anything. I think it's a combination of Dirk leaving and the rest of them just trying to make money instead of making music that makes money too.
I mean I understand that, but it’s sad that it happened.
“Back in my day things were so much better”
-every Gen Xer
Should be criminal how many people have never heard Favorite Things.
The whole thing with the new bassist and everything else they've done just screams listening to their label and trying to be as radio friendly and safe as possible.
Yeah, I would say that they are quite different, soundwise. Also I didn't say "Streamers are bad", actually I liked them in the past very much but prefer the sound/tone of the Stingray bass As a matter of fact, I had 4 MIG Streamers ('02 LX6, '97 LX4, '90 Stage One 4, '02 std 5), two Thumbs ('02 NT6 and BO4), '96 Corvette Pro Line 5 and a '98 Fortress One 4 (the active version). Playd them frequently from the late '90s untill mid '10s when I sold the last one at the time (the '02 Stramer LX6, pic below) to some guy from upstate NY in a jazz club in Greenwich Village that don't exist anymore. Couple of years later that guy sold the LX6 to some guy in San Francisco who coincidentally found me on some internet forum telling me that he loved the neck shape of the LX6 so much that he sent the bass together with his $7000 custom shop Stage One 6 to some local luthier to reshape the CS neck to the LX6's shape.
That said, probably I totally missed the point of this thread so compared the sreamer bass in the OP with the stingray, like how close that bass is to a stingray (and after a few bottles of beer
)Cheers!
Whew. That sucker is a piece of juicy citrus right there. I think that’s the only orange 6 string Streamer I’ve ever seen a picture of. Cool.Yeah, I would say that they are quite different, soundwise. Also I didn't say "Streamers are bad", actually I liked them in the past very much but prefer the sound/tone of the Stingray bass As a matter of fact, I had 4 MIG Streamers ('02 LX6, '97 LX4, '90 Stage One 4, '02 std 5), two Thumbs ('02 NT6 and BO4), '96 Corvette Pro Line 5 and a '98 Fortress One 4 (the active version). Playd them frequently from the late '90s untill mid '10s when I sold the last one at the time (the '02 Stramer LX6, pic below) to some guy from upstate NY in a jazz club in Greenwich Village that don't exist anymore. Couple of years later that guy sold the LX6 to some guy in San Francisco who coincidentally found me on some internet forum telling me that he loved the neck shape of the LX6 so much that he sent the bass together with his $7000 custom shop Stage One 6 to some local luthier to reshape the CS neck to the LX6's shape.
That said, probably I totally missed the point of this thread so compared the sreamer bass in the OP with the stingray, like how close that bass is to a stingray (and after a few bottles of beer
Cheers!
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Yeah overall I love both of my StingRays and a massive void would be left if they weren’t in my stable. My most recent purchase has been fulfilling my recent crave of Warwick style growl despite not being a Warwick QUITE nicely.
