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Does Anyone Still Play Music Man Basses

#62
RasJay said:
You could ask the same question about Warwick. My opinion is that the Stingray Special has a modern clean tone that takes well to some drive/distortion. If I cover some Alice in Chains, STP, or similar I use my Spectior p/j. When I play some TOOL, NIN, Fiilter, Marylin Manson style I grab the Special and run a touch of either dark glass, yyz shape shifter, Lusithand or bass butler distortion over it.

I do not prefer the Special tone on its own as I do a Spector. But I love the special with some grit.
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I like this response
 
#63
Lance Bunyon said:
You lack a general sense of humor. And you put way too much stock in "general Consensus". I play what I like. These days, my main gigging bass is an EBMM Bongo 5 HH. The only thing keeping me from buying a Stingray is the lack of funds. I absolutely love EBMM products.
If the fascists decided to seize all EBMM instruments from the general population, they'd have to pry my Bongo from my cold, dead fingers.
Don't worry about what other people play.
Play what makes you happy.
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OP posts a general question asking for people's input, and then gets fussy and pedantic when some of the collective input isn't to their precise liking: seemingly no room for humor or any actual discourse.

One can often safely assume how much fun someone is as parties by how much they use unnecessary quotation marks in online posts 😂

MM basses were probably more prolifically played in the 2000's by mainstream commercial bands than they are now, and if I were to guess that's largely due to the artist relations program differences at EBMM between then and now.

That said, only two bands on the OP's list (At The Drive & Chevelle) used them exclusively back in the day: Korn, Limp Bizkit and The Mars Volta never used them at all, and Breaking Benjamin was around half MM half Warwick on their 2001-2011 run from what I remember.

Their current bassist Aaron, who is an absolutely rad human being, uses Better Mousetrap basses exclusively.

Probably because he's following the solid advice in bold above :cool:
 
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RasJay said:
You could ask the same question about Warwick. My opinion is that the Stingray Special has a modern clean tone that takes well to some drive/distortion. If I cover some Alice in Chains, STP, or similar I use my Spectior p/j. When I play some TOOL, NIN, Fiilter, Marylin Manson style I grab the Special and run a touch of either dark glass, yyz shape shifter, Lusithand or bass butler distortion over it.

I do not prefer the Special tone on its own as I do a Spector. But I love the special with some grit.
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MDBass said:
OP posts a general question asking for people's input, and then gets fussy and pedantic when some of the collective input isn't to their precise liking: seemingly no room for humor or any actual discourse.

One can often safely assume how much fun someone is as parties by how much they use unnecessary quotation marks in online posts 😂

MM basses were probably more prolifically played in the 2000's by mainstream commercial bands than they are now, and if I were to guess that's largely due to the artist relations program differences at EBMM between then and now.

That said, only two bands on the OP's list (At The Drive & Chevelle) used them exclusively back in the day: Korn, Limp Bizkit and The Mars Volta never used them at all, and Breaking Benjamin was around half MM half Warwick on their 2001-2011 run from what I remember.

Their current bassist Aaron, who is an absolutely rad human being, uses Better Mousetrap basses exclusively.

Probably because he's following the solid advice in bold above :cool:
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Not getting fussy. When people are using colloquial obtuse undertones and not responding directly and circumventing what the post was asking. I will clarify {emphasis added}. If you are being humorous, then specify that in your response. Otherwise a reader will take it as written. Example: If I say “sting rays are awesome you sicko you need to get one” and you take the word “sicko” as written without me clarifying and responding. I can’t simultaneously then say the OP has no sense of humor. You never specified you were being funny until after the fact. Once that’s clarified I will take as “ humorous” respectfully!!!
 
#66
PleyswethSqwerl said:
To me live a stingray is a tone monster. For recording not so much. The P sits in the mix in a “recording” better than “almost” any bass. However rays are awesome live. I think if you made one with a custom jazz bass neck a P body and the MM bucker. You’d have the perfect “live” bass
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When I was recording [2001-2009] I had a P Bass :) actually used P basses from '75 to 2013.

I hear a lot of great Recordings, Demo's and Bass Covers with Stingrays [Pre-EB, Pre-Special and Special]

Their have been a few players I read that have had trouble recording with Ray's but there is a trick I heard about with Ray's; if you cut EQ's fully CCW and add a little bass and tad of midrange it will fit in mixes similar to P or J[obviously need to adjust gain structure]

I am not recording at all now but when I play to tracks on some [mostly vintage] this setting blends/fits best.
 
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#67
It depends on the genre, but I think a lot of popular music now has very vintage bass tones: flats, palm-muting, Ps, semi-hollow basses and so on. So, I think the trend is away from what Musicman is famous for in pop, rock and even a lot of R&B.
 
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#69
PleyswethSqwerl said:
You’re right Warwick was huge back then. The $$ musicman 5 corvette especially.
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???

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Both are nowhere near the stingray tone. unique tone but no stingray. I

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Do you count these as Jazz bass too?
 
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PleyswethSqwerl said:
If you re-read the post I stated “I rarely see YouTube videos of content creators using them and it is less talked about on forums than the other ones” {emphasis added}. I simultaneously asked who still uses them to “substantiate” if there is still a big community. Rather than ignoring the post’s context. If would be much more sufficient to answer if you still use them and explain that a plethora of people in your community still uses them. This is why I would ask such a question {emphasis added}.
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Oh, so it’s in specific locations that this applies….

Whatever….
 
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Al1885 said:
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Both are nowhere near the stingray tone. unique tone but no stingray. I

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Do you count these as Jazz bass too?
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First of all. I’m so excited to see that you have.$$ I’ve been looking for one of the old-school ones like that those things were my favorite back in the day. Simultaneously, yes, I would consider those.”Warwick jazz basses” I know they made an FNA jazzman back in the day that was superb.
 
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PleyswethSqwerl said:
I like this response

Not getting fussy. When people are using colloquial obtuse undertones and not responding directly and circumventing what the post was asking. I will clarify {emphasis added}. If you are being humorous, then specify that in your response. Otherwise a reader will take it as written. Example: If I say “sting rays are awesome you sicko you need to get one” and you take the word “sicko” as written without me clarifying and responding. I can’t simultaneously then say the OP has no sense of humor. You never specified you were being funny until after the fact. Once that’s clarified I will take as “ humorous” respectfully!!!
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The majority of my response answered the OP very specifically and was ignored entirely, and the small portion that didn't got a pedantic reply.

Solid way to unintentionally illustrate what I was getting at 😂
 
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MDBass said:
The majority of my response answered the OP very specifically and was ignored entirely, and the small portion that didn't got a pedantic reply.

Solid way to unintentionally illustrate what I was getting at 😂
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I replied back to the largely “superfluous” portion of your reply because that’s what it was. When the other portion of it was more befitting however supplanted by the largely superfluous portion.
 
#75
PleyswethSqwerl said:
I replied back to the largely “superfluous” portion of your reply because that’s what it was. When the other portion of it was more befitting however supplanted by the largely superfluous portion.
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Whether you're actually this lacking in self-awareness or are just trolling the community for giggles, I got a belly laugh of out this one.

Thanks for that 😂
 
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My '97 Stingray was my daily driver for 15 years, and I used it in everything from big band jazz to punk. I did wind up swapping the pickup for a Bartolini in the early 2000's to make it less aggressive (which in retrospect.... i should have just got a different bass). I don't play it as often these days, as I have more basses in rotation, but when I do pick it up it makes me smile because it feels like talking with an old friend. What I'd really taken for granted is how much I love the pickup placement for anchoring. The string tension in that position feels perfect, whereas anchoring over a P feels a little too loose, and over a bridge J always feels a little too tight.
 
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