I just realized that Ive had the positions numbered backwards in my head. So what I was calling 5 is actually 1 and so on from there.I may be doing this backwards, but my recollection of the Musicman HH controls is that Position 1 is the bridge, Position 5 is the neck. If I'm wrong, I'll fix what I typed below.
In the mix - I typically use Position 2 (outer coils) or, more often, Position 4 (inner coils, my favorite setting). Bass is raised just a little from the center detent and treble is lowered a littel more than I raised the bass. This is my personal default Stingray tone and I could be perfectly happy using only these settings, especially in Position 4.
Cut through - I'll usually use Position 1 (bridge pickup) with a little bass boost. If I want to cut through a lot, I'll raise the treble to get the amount that I need. If I don't want to cut through as much, I'll leave the treble alone and boost the mids to get the amount that I want. I also sometimes use Position 5 (neck pickup) with a little mid boost and that gives me a good rock or blues rock tone.
Thumpy - I'll use Position (3 both coils), bass boosted a little and treble cut to taste. If I want a little more definition, I'll raise the mids just a little. I also have a compressor on my pedalboards (a Broughton Apex on the big board and a Becos CompIQ Mini Pro on the small board) set to act as a leveler, with a relatively low threshold and a relatively low ratio. Both of those also have a sidechain HPF filter on the compressor to reduce the amount of compression triggered by the low end. Didn't know what that was when I bought the Apex but I learned to like it, so I looked for another compressor that had that feature but in a tiny enclosure when I bought the Becos.
Hope that's useful to you.
SO that means that I am actually liking 1, 3, and 4 . In between 1& 2, 4&5 are useable as well.
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