EBMM StingRay Special Club

[skaine]

I’m running 4th position (second from the closest to the headstock) with bass at about 85%, mids about 60%, and treble at about 40% and playing finger style to MJ’s off the wall and getting a killer tone

When you say 60% mids, does it mean 60% increase from the flat EQ position or 60% increase from the lowest posion of the knob?

 

[maplenecked]

When you say 60% mids, does it mean 60% increase from the flat EQ position or 60% increase from the lowest posion of the knob?

From the lowest. So just a bit past the flat position

 

[mojomike001]

The way I see it, the only advantage of the H over the HH is that it appeals more to the slappers without the neck pickup in the way. Otherwise, the HH can do everything that the H can do plus quite a bit more.

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

The way I see it, the only advantage of the H over the HH is that it appeals more to the slappers without the neck pickup in the way. Otherwise, the HH can do everything that the H can do plus quite a bit more.

Yep!!

 

[Stranger Danger]

The way I see it, the only advantage of the H over the HH is that it appeals more to the slappers without the neck pickup in the way. Otherwise, the HH can do everything that the H can do plus quite a bit more.

Yes indeed. I believe this is correct.

 

[vates]

Not exactly I'm not a slapper. But I would prefer 5H over 5HH because of:
1) series mode;
2) more streamlined and clean exterior;
3) less fiddling in stressful live situations

 

[Kilgore777]

What Stefan says here:



"If lovin' you is wrong, I don't want to be right." I think I am in love with my new bass....

 

[scottm]

Not exactly I'm not a slapper. But I would prefer 5H over 5HH because of:
1) series mode;
2) more streamlined and clean exterior;
3) less fiddling in stressful live situations

Agreed! We will have to divide this club into two separate ones now!!!

I have both, but I cannot get my HH to have the same “bite” that my H has. Not sure if that’s all in the different Fingerboard tone.
I also know that my H is a pound lighter than my HH. I prefer my H when playing out.

-ScottM

 

[Kilgore777]

Not exactly I'm not a slapper. But I would prefer 5H over 5HH because of:
1) series mode;
2) more streamlined and clean exterior;
3) less fiddling in stressful live situations

Sorry for being a bit daft, but what do you mean by "Series Mode?"

The pickup is wired in parallel, right?

 

[tminus10]

Sorry for being a bit daft, but what do you mean by "Series Mode?"

The pickup is wired in parallel, right?

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They're referring to the 5H

 

[maplenecked]

All this means is that you need a 4H, a 4HH, a 5H, and a 5HH, because yes

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

So much for the Stingray being a one trick pony.
Some people prefer more bite, some less fiddling with knobs and switches, some more slap room, some more pickup switching , some see this as being a more versatile bass.

Some say yay, some say nay. At the end of the day, it’s still a Ray!! That’s a winner in my book any day . To quote Forrest Gump..” That’s all I’ve got to say .”



Sorry folks , I’m operating on little sleep. It tends to make me somewhat silly.

 

[Iofflight]

I played both the 4H and 4HH and I like both a lot. The sounds I dialed in that I favored were almost all achieved with the 4H so when a good deal came up that is the one I got. I'm not saying I wouldn't also like a 4HH but really I have other bases to cover those sounds. It is nice to have an almost all in one but really how many of us do?

 

[Pet Sounds]

@lowdownthump, I definitely think the Special is much less of a one-trick pony than the previous Rays. My biggest gripe about the SR has always been its inherent and often untameable "zinginess." I feel the Special has conquered that problem (though not everybody sees it as a problem, I realize). I have the SRS4H, and even with the single pickup, there's a host of useable tones at one's fingertips, including a classic SR sound.

 

[Stevorebob]

No bass is a one-trick pony. Yeah, that includes P-Basses and single-H StingRays. Only players are one-trick ponies.

I prefer the bridge StingRay pickup. I have non-Special 5HHs that I use almost exclusively in the bridge pickup selection only. So, when I got my Special, I dispensed with what I felt would be an unused pickup for me. YMMV.

 

[Burwabit]

I got a 4H because 1) it has exactly the tone I’m looking for in a Stingray. If I want a P tone, I’ll play a P; 2) I prefer how it looks. I dislike how the HH looks in some of the color schemes, specifically black bridge pickup on a light colored pickguard

 

[Kilgore777]

They're referring to the 5H

OK, thanks! I didn't realize that the 4 and 5 have different controls. I have a 2002 Sterling and I realize now why people like series, that is my favorite position to use on my Sterling. It gives you a really nice, thick sound. Parallel kicks butt too.

I don't know why they didn't include the selector switch on the 4 H.... I would be miffed about that if I was considering one. I guess they are keeping in line with the Stingray tradition, but should have changed it for this model, IMO.

 

[Kilgore777]

It is nice to have an almost all in one but really how many of us do?

Yeah, my wife asked me that since the HH Special can get so many sounds, can't you get rid of your other basses? Uhhhhhh.... no.

 

[japhy4529]

Nice deal on one of those 30th Anniversary SR5s. Invalid Link Removed. I had one and it sounded great. Alas, I preferred my Alembic and only need one 5-string.

Also, there's this EBMM SR4 if you're into mint green... Invalid Link Removed

 

[Pet Sounds]

@Stevorebob, you can say the old Rays aren't one-trick ponies, and I somewhat agree with you. But my understanding is that a major reason for the creation of the Special was a recognition that the old Rays *are* kind of a one-trick pony whose one trick is no longer of great value among musicians. Hence the revoicing of the pickups.