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Remember how you had the bass eq set and which pickup selection you were using ?
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EBMM StingRay Special Club
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Remember how you had the bass eq set and which pickup selection you were using ?
Hi Pertyman - my 5HHS Cruz teal took 8 months from order last year in the UK - the 4HHS took just under 6 months.
It'll be worth the wait and I'm looking forward to seeing your video review
Hopefully I will soon be joining this club! I will be trying out some basses this week, and hopefully one will be 'it'. I've a preference for rosewood fingerboards, as I find they have a warmer, more rounded sound which I prefer, just wondering how the roasted maple fingerboards compare, sound wise? I doubt the difference would be discernible playing live, but I do notice the difference in the the studio.
The eq in the Specials is so powerful, it easily makes tonal differences related to different fretboard woods fairly insignificant. I'd say you can pick the fretboard based on what you prefer esthetically.
Ok. I'm just wondering if the bass was played with flat eq, what would the tonal differences be?
There very well could be some subtle differences, but when it comes to active basses, is a flat eq even really flat?
Ok. If three identical basses has the same 'flat' eq setting, but different fingerboards, how would the tonal characteristics differ? Sadowsky say the fingerboard has a bigger influence than the body wood on tone. How does roasting the neck change the tone, if at all?
Did not order a Special, but have ordered other Music Man basses. Have waited longer for those. 8 months to a year seems to be the time frame for a built to order bass from them.
I'm still waiting for my 4HH Special. Ordered in August from a local distributor and while I was quoted by Music Man support that turnaround was 8 months, my shop told me to expect at least a year.
I sold my Jazz shortly after putting the cash down last year and picked this guy up in anticipation. It's made the wait completely doable
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Man, you folks are very patient people! For me, immediate gratification in the used market at >30% off is the way to go. That's just me.
Yeah, I 100% agree. Up until now I exclusively bought used (and still will going forward), but I was spending so much mental time with GAS wanting something "better" that I just threw the cash down.
I also tell myself that a Cruz Teal 4HH Special is unlikely to show up used in Canada anytime soon, and that the year long wait gives me an opportunity to get better instead of looking up classifieds
I admit it! I'm addicted to the classifieds! Talkbass. Reverb. GC Used. Ebay. I can't stop myself.Yeah, I 100% agree. Up until now I exclusively bought used (and still will going forward), but I was spending so much mental time with GAS wanting something "better" that I just threw the cash down.
I also tell myself that a Cruz Teal 4HH Special is unlikely to show up used in Canada anytime soon, and that the year long wait gives me an opportunity to get better instead of looking up classifieds
I think there is more variation bass-to-bass overall, even with the same make and model, than could be discerned just from fretboard material.
Which fretboard material would you like to prefer?
I've owned rosewood and maple Precision and Jazz basses, and even though they were all quite different, I prefer rosewood, but I've never tried roasted maple.
Im just asking whether the process of roasting maple has any effect on tone.
For me it's more about the way the wood looks and the way it feels underneath my fingertips . I've always preferred ebony because of this.
Interesting question. I do not detect a tonal difference between my roasted-maple StingRay and non-roasted-maple StingRays that I would attribute to the roasting. These are different basses, one a Special 5H, the other a pre-Special 5HH, and they are different in tone. But it seems to me the difference is the electronics and not the fingerboard wood or neck wood, or even the body mass or steel versus aluminum hardware. Others may have a different impression or a better comparison. YMMV.
