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EBMM StingRay Special Club

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I have finally joined the Stingray (Special) owners club. I picked up my new BFR Stingray 4H in Ruby Punch from Guitar Center yesterday. I’m naming her Dorothy because of the Ruby Sparkle (like the slippers) and because she got shipped to me from Kansas.
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RedJag said:
I have finally joined the Stingray (Special) owners club. I picked up my new BFR Stingray 4H in Ruby Punch from Guitar Center yesterday. I’m naming her Dorothy because of the Ruby Sparkle (like the slippers) and because she got shipped to me from Kansas.View attachment 4864671
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Beautiful, love a neck with blocks and binding!

Looks like it’s time to change your TB name to RedRay. ;)
 
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DavidJamesNHBass said:
Kingpin owner here…is it just me or is the level out a bit lower than most? Ran through a few (Dingwall. Sadowsky, even G&L and a Fender Am Ultra P, etc.) and the EBMM is about 3-4db quieter.
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Have never owned a Stingray Special and a Fender Ultra at the same time - but I do remember back when I owned an American Elite P (the current Ultra’s predecessor) the active output seemed AWFULLY hot…
 
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Sort of an obscure question for the thread, but hopefully you all can help out. I love the feel of the volume/eq knobs on my Special, particularly the resistance and stability when turning the knobs, as opposed to something like my jazz basses which are much 'looser' feeling when turning. What is different about these pots from what Fender uses for example? I'd be interested in using them in my Fenders if possible. I don't do a lot of knob turning on my jazzes when playing. Any thoughts?
 
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Rlbragg15 said:
Sort of an obscure question for the thread, but hopefully you all can help out. I love the feel of the volume/eq knobs on my Special, particularly the resistance and stability when turning the knobs, as opposed to something like my jazz basses which are much 'looser' feeling when turning. What is different about these pots from what Fender uses for example? I'd be interested in using them in my Fenders if possible. I don't do a lot of knob turning on my jazzes when playing. Any thoughts?
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i’m working and not near mine right now so can’t open the control panel and check, but my guess is it’s quality potentiometers, usually even Fenders have cheap Chinese ones. I’ve swapped out many pots in guitars over the years and a good CTS pot definitely has a difference in feel. It also could be the plastic knobs the Jazz basses have, so changing that would lose the classic Jazz look, but might also help in tightening up the feel of the knobs.
 
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jdaunt said:
i’m working and not near mine right now so can’t open the control panel and check, but my guess is it’s quality potentiometers, usually even Fenders have cheap Chinese ones. I’ve swapped out many pots in guitars over the years and a good CTS pot definitely has a difference in feel. It also could be the plastic knobs the Jazz basses have, so changing that would lose the classic Jazz look, but might also help in tightening up the feel of the knobs.
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My jaw just hit the floor when I realized 'pots' is short for potentiometers. I can't believe it took being spoon-fed above for me to 'get' that.
 
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