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EBMM StingRay Special Club

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Nobis17 said:
I have one in dropped copper and honestly I can't tell a huge difference from the pictures. I'm sure it is much more dramatic in person. I think they both look awesome.

I was thinking about getting a black pick guard for mine. I wonder how it would look with the dropped copper...
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The maroon mist is very difficult to photo. Its a lot more purple in real life. Colors dont bother me as I have instruments in almost all colors.

Funny you mentioned pickguards. I just ordered a red tort pickguard from pickguard planet to put on the dropped copper.
 
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Hey SR-Special owners! Lots of beautiful basses in here!

I have a couple questions for you.

The EBMM site shows fret specs as:
High Profile, wide

Do any of you know the actual size? Have any of you measured?

what do you think of the fret size? Are they awesome? Too big?

reason I am asking is that I am trying to pick a fret size for a neck build...and can’t seem to come to a decision.

My squier necks have what I believe are Jumbo .104”x.047”
The next size up are .118”x.058” and labeled as “huge”

I have a ‘96 L2500 with a baseball bat neck and huge frets that I really like, measuring .115”x.054”
These are probably as close to the “huge” size as possible.

So I am trying to gauge what is too huge and acceptable...

thanks in advance.
 
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Well... I have a confession to make. All this quarantine thing is making me think a lot, about a lot of things.
I'm seriously thinking about stringing my dropped copper SRS 4H with Fender 9050L flats.
Please, tell me that my bass will sound super dull and horrible in any way. :smug::bassist:
 
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Hypercaffium said:
Well... I have a confession to make. All this quarantine thing is making me think a lot, about a lot of things.
I'm seriously thinking about stringing my dropped copper SRS 4H with Fender 9050L flats.
Please, tell me that my bass will sound super dull and horrible in any way. :smug::bassist:
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Go for it. I strung my SRS 4HH with LaBella LT flats and it sounds great. These basses lend themselves so well to flats because the onboard pre can give you that extra top end without the need to faff with the EQ on your amp. Especially useful if you switch between basses with flats/rounds.
 
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I've heard they can sound really good with flats on them, a very unique sound. If I had two SRS I'd try it out. I did however put TI flats on my short scale which is passive, so not the same, and I thought it sounded really good but not 100% right for me. I do wonder how flats would sound on a full scale active though.
 
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Nobis17 said:
Isn't one the things that makes Stingrays so awesome is the way they growl and bite and pop when you slap or dig in hard? If you put flats on it, won't it counteract that?
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It will of course, but with the onboard preamp you have a lot more space to move around compared to a passive P w/flats. Plus, Rays are way more zingy and defined by nature, so flats could work very good for many genres.
I really, really love the sound of a P w/flats and it was my go-to tone for quite some time, but the lack of clarity in the attack sometimes was a little bit hard to fix, especially when using fingers.
I also must say that if I'm going for growl, slap etc. I've always preferred a Jazz bass. Let's say that I'm trying to treat my StingRay like a P bass on steroids?

Deedee1 said:
Go for it. I strung my SRS 4HH with LaBella LT flats and it sounds great. These basses lend themselves so well to flats because the onboard pre can give you that extra top end without the need to faff with the EQ on your amp. Especially useful if you switch between basses with flats/rounds.
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Yeah, that's what I think. I have my pedalboard set to work with my Jazz bass and even if most of the pedals sound good with my Ray, tweaking is always necessary and I prefer to avoid that. I've found my sound for each pedal and I'm a set and forget kind of guy. I want to check if flats can make the difference between the two basses less noticeable.
Another thing I REALLY want to try is StingRay w/flats into my SLO with Ampeg B15 IR. I'm sure it would be a killer combo.

CElton said:
Louis Johnson would disagree...
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LOL. :)

LionOnBass said:
But didn’t he played rounds on his rays?
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Flats!

Nobis17 said:
Not that I'm flip-flopping my opinion of this, but I would be interested to hear flats on a SRS. I've always played rounds, so my experience with flats is literally zero.
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Generally speaking, flats are darker sounding, more beefy and woody, with more mids and punch. I've used them for quite some time and they do work great in the mix.
I'll post some clips as soon as I mount them on my SRS.
 
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