I don't know how many strings on this one but I'm sure it has at least one battery
sorry I couldn't help and welcome aboard...
sorry I couldn't help and welcome aboard...
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Battery free 5 string?
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Neither one of these has a preamp.
They blow away almost any active bass.
It's all about the pickups and when it comes to pickups, G&L and Reverend really know what they're doing.
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I don't know what your budget is, or if someone has already mentioned this but, NS Design (Ned Steinberger) just released their NXTa bass which you can get as a 5 string, has active pickups and uses a supercapacitor to charge with something like 16 hours of playing time on one charge. Here's a link: NXTa RADIUS Bass Guitar | Extraordinary Form and Function by Ned Steinberger | NS Design
Just remove or bypass the electronics. This is how I modified my Ibby.
The G&L Kiloton would be a great choice. It would have a similar sound to your Musicman. Similar pickup just passive.
Ya, next time you decide to sell a bass because you think you know what the problem is, let me know. As someone else already said, someone got a really good deal on a Stingray that needed a $10 repair...lol.
I had a passive Peavey Foundation fail (intermittently losing signal) during a big show after 20 years of flawless operation, all due to a bad ground wire at the output jack. To get rid of a bass for what is probably an easy fix (it took all of 5 minutes during a break back in the days before smartphones with web access to schematics) is like throwing the baby out with the horse's mouth (or whatever that saying is).
Surely the right thing to do is to get the problem fixed before you sold it. Would have saved yourself a lot of cash.
My Mike Lull PJ5 is a great sounding passive bass.
Dingwall maybe? My NG2 has a active passive switch so it can run in passive mode. Can get a variety of sounds out of them. But I mainly prefer the series setting. With that setting to my ears it’s got nice bottom and crisp top end kind of similar to a stingray but with midrange that is more similar to p bass with fresh rounds. The bass actually has two reverse p pickups if I’m not mistaken.
Wow, thanks for all the responses guys!
Ok so the stingray 5 probably just needed a new battery housing - obviously I did not know that when I sold it for AUD$900, but I am happy to know that now as it means the new owner didn't get burnt, but rather actually got quite a good deal from me!
I live in a very small city in Australia (Canberra) that only has 2 music stores. They have not been able to show me a single 5 string that doesn't take 9 volt battery(s).
Kiesel basses were the first batteryless basses I found in my internet searching - I would love to own one but they don't stock them here in Australia and I don't want to buy a bass sight unseen - I need to hold it before handing over thousands of dollars!
If I end up having to buy a bass with a battery, I will install a 9 volt input jack - I am not against the electronics (it is an electric bass after all!), but I have decided that I am completely over having to buy expensive 9 volt batteries all the time. It would be kind of hard to want to modify an expensive original bass in this way though.
Buying a kit is something I have considered - but I wouldn't want to do a rush job on it and I can't trust myself not to do that -and I already have a not completely finished 4 string bass pulled from the rubbish that I have been gradually improving since I got it going, so I don't need another project right now.
The bass that I use currently (apart from the one from the rubbish) is a Gibson Les Paul double cutaway "money" bass. It has two humbuckers, no battery and an even fatter sound than the musicman had -and a higher output! I currently have AUD$4000 saved up - should be enough to get a quality 5 string?
Ok so the stingray 5 probably just needed a new battery housing - obviously I did not know that when I sold it for AUD$900, but I am happy to know that now as it means the new owner didn't get burnt, but rather actually got quite a good deal from me!
I live in a very small city in Australia (Canberra) that only has 2 music stores. They have not been able to show me a single 5 string that doesn't take 9 volt battery(s).
Kiesel basses were the first batteryless basses I found in my internet searching - I would love to own one but they don't stock them here in Australia and I don't want to buy a bass sight unseen - I need to hold it before handing over thousands of dollars!
If I end up having to buy a bass with a battery, I will install a 9 volt input jack - I am not against the electronics (it is an electric bass after all!), but I have decided that I am completely over having to buy expensive 9 volt batteries all the time. It would be kind of hard to want to modify an expensive original bass in this way though.
Buying a kit is something I have considered - but I wouldn't want to do a rush job on it and I can't trust myself not to do that -and I already have a not completely finished 4 string bass pulled from the rubbish that I have been gradually improving since I got it going, so I don't need another project right now.
The bass that I use currently (apart from the one from the rubbish) is a Gibson Les Paul double cutaway "money" bass. It has two humbuckers, no battery and an even fatter sound than the musicman had -and a higher output! I currently have AUD$4000 saved up - should be enough to get a quality 5 string?
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My main bass is a Kiesel Icon 5 but my backup is a 2006 60th Anniversary MIM Fender V. Passive, plays and sounds great. Very affordable.
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