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EBMM StingRay Special Club

#13,003
I love position 4 as it's one of my favorites of the 5 but to me its sounds nothing like my Fender precision bass nor does position 5 but both positions are their own thing. It would be nice if a Stingray 4HH made a P bass unnecessary but if you want the true P bass sound nothing else does it but a P just as if you want a true Stingray sound nothing else replaces an EBMM Stingray so that's why I have both, together they cover about everything.
 
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Moonskunk said:
I love position 4 as it's one of my favorites of the 5 but to me its sounds nothing like my Fender precision bass nor does position 5 but both positions are they're there own thing. It would be nice if a Stingray 4HH made a P bass unnecessary but if you want the true P bass sound nothing else does it but a P just as if you want a true Stingray sound nothing else replaces an EBMM Stingray so that's why I have both, together they cover about everything.
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I agree. I have tried making my HH sound like Fenders but I just can’t. Closest I can get is position 2 sounding like a Jazz bass but even that is still far off. Yep treat them like their own is the best advice. I love all positions but 5 is my least favourite.
 
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lordradish said:
I'm going to have to give position 2 a bit more of a try... I keep getting hooked on 1 and 4. What eq settings do you like for pos 4 and 2?
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In the photos are the position 2 settings I used last night. If I recall my position 4 settings a few weeks back were really close to this as well. However I went back to a photo of that session and the bass knob on the Mesa Boogie was around 1 o’clock.

I believe I may have had the bass on the Stingray around 2 o’clock on position 4 though.

These are pretty typical of where I find myself when I’m noodling around with it.

On position 1 on the Stingray I will boost the bass on the preamp to 3-4 o’clock with the same amp settings. Since it’s the bridge pickup it’s a little thinner, but punchy as we know. So, I feel it needs a little more bass boost to my ears. I can get a nice punch / growl out of it.

These work well for my ears and my amp / speaker setup.

I snapped a couple of pics for you because I was EQ’ing the bass and also we used the Post EQ signal from the TT-800.

^ Refer to the top channel in the pictures which is the “Boogie channel”.

So, a couple variables going on.

Preamp on the bass was:
Bass slightly below 12 o’clock. (Lot of low end from the amp at play)
Mids: 2 o’clock
Treble:12:00

On the TT-800
Deep switch-On
Bright switch-Off.

The rest of the eq is self explanatory. I had the Bass on the amp around 3:00 so had to cut the bass back on the Stingray. Slight bump in the mids around 2 o’clock on the amp and Stingray.

I hope this helps you with a starting point.

I still love the traditional position 1 sound as for many years I owned a 5H, but I really enjoy having all of the other options.
 

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#13,007
ics1974 said:
I agree. I have tried making my HH sound like Fenders but I just can’t. Closest I can get is position 2 sounding like a Jazz bass but even that is still far off. Yep treat them like their own is the best advice. I love all positions but 5 is my least favourite.
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Good advice as the Stingray definitely has its own thing going. It’s similar in ways but definitely different, which is a good thing. Otherwise it would be redundant to own both.
 
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Musicman81 said:
In the photos are the position 2 settings I used last night. If I recall my position 4 settings a few weeks back were really close to this as well. However I went back to a photo of that session and the bass knob on the Mesa Boogie was around 1 o’clock.

I believe I may have had the bass on the Stingray around 2 o’clock on position 4 though.

These are pretty typical of where I find myself when I’m noodling around with it.

On position 1 on the Stingray I will boost the bass on the preamp to 3-4 o’clock with the same amp settings. Since it’s the bridge pickup it’s a little thinner, but punchy as we know. So, I feel it needs a little more bass boost to my ears. I can get a nice punch / growl out of it.

These work well for my ears and my amp / speaker setup.

I snapped a couple of pics for you because I was EQ’ing the bass and also we used the Post EQ signal from the TT-800.

^ Refer to the top channel in the pictures which is the “Boogie channel”.

So, a couple variables going on.

Preamp on the bass was:
Bass slightly below 12 o’clock. (Lot of low end from the amp at play)
Mids: 2 o’clock
Treble:12:00

On the TT-800
Deep switch-On
Bright switch-Off.

The rest of the eq is self explanatory. I had the Bass on the amp around 3:00 so had to cut the bass back on the Stingray. Slight bump in the mids around 2 o’clock on the amp and Stingray.

I hope this helps you with a starting point.

I still love the traditional position 1 sound as for many years I owned a 5H, but I really enjoy having all of the other options.
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Thanks!
 
#13,017
lordradish said:
Had a nice jazz gig at a distillery tonight, and after reading the last couple of posts, I just put it in the seldom-used position 2 and left it there all night. Sounded great. I still need to warm up to position 3, as that's the one I use the least.
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One of the trios I jam with regularly just gushed over my HH Special the first time I played it during I jammed. It's two guitars and me, and we play a lot of somewhat soft rock/country/Americana stuff. They absolutely raved about position 3. I think position 3 is very well-suited for that softer music. My other trio is a bit more raucus rock and country. I find myself using position 4 more often with them.
 
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