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Music Man StingRay Club | PART FIVE
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Wow that YouTube tutorial was AWESOME!! Thanks for posting it!
If you look very, very closely...
... you'll see this:
If not, no feelings have been hurt, but then hopefully your leather fetish has gotten a pleasant boost.
... you'll see this:
If not, no feelings have been hurt, but then hopefully your leather fetish has gotten a pleasant boost.
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I would love to try one of these some day. I am not a fan of the HH either except for my ceramic SR5 HH. I sold my Special HH because I found it sounded to generic. My ceramic sounds fantastic however.
Never tried an alnico HH though.
I was surprised how close I could get the bridge pickup on the HS and the special to sound like each other with a little EQ. I tried ceramic Stingrays in the past but always through someone else's rig so can't really compare.
HS went a good local TBer, hope he's enjoying it.
I think I generally like single pickup basses is the truth.
My next bass will be a P bass, miss having one around
who else mixes string sets on their SR5? any good combos you've found? i think i've finally decided on DR sunbeams for E-G and a 130 gauge EB slinky for the B string. The sunbeams' B string was just too muffled (which could be user error, admittedly) and weak for me. mixing and matching seems to be the best option.
this wasn't on a ray, but i also recall trying flats for B-A and rounds for D-G on a fretless i had. that was a pretty fun combo, too, though short lived.
this wasn't on a ray, but i also recall trying flats for B-A and rounds for D-G on a fretless i had. that was a pretty fun combo, too, though short lived.
Just got beautiful BEAST today!!!
Haven't plugged it in yet at this point
Haven't plugged it in yet at this point
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Wow, that sparkle is amazing, almost as glittery as a G&L metal flake finish (especially that headstock, YOWZA!)
LOVE the finish. the people have spoken, PLUG IT IN
I can't say I've ever mixed & matched strings, seems kinda expensive
"Too much time" issue imo. I'm Very satisfied with the tone, feel and performance of the strings, instruments and amplification I currently play out with. And the revenue stream they help create. Different instruments per format required. The SR5HP runs EB Slinkies. Sounds great. IMO.
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Not enough time to go down that rabbit hole. First, you have to spent hundreds of dollars and a similar amount of hours finding your ideal combo - IF you find it at all. Then, you have to spend more hours and money tracking single strings - IF the involved manufacturers offer singles at all. Some don't.
I'm a big fan of D'Addario Chromes, but they do not offer my preferred .45-.65-.85.-.105 set, so I order the set I want as single strings. They're not always in stock as singles all the time and it's a paint to assemble those sets if you have to buy from different retailers. Luckily, flats don't need to be changed as often as I change rounds.
I'd buy sets and mix and match. Don't ask me how many partial sets I have hanging around, I truly don't know lol!
I had the chance to see journey and Toto last night
Interesting that both bass players had a stingray style bass
Toto’s bass player had a sonic blue G&L kiloton
Ross look like he had three stingrays
A black
Natural and a aged white one
looks like a pre Ernie balls to me
As a huge fan Toto I was so excited
great Mix
but disappointed in journeys mix
Bass was super compressed all I could hear was attack and vocals had almost all the lows dialed out and lacked body
but aside from that the playing was awesome!
Aside from the albums I’ve never really listened to Ross valorys playing and they even played “I’ll be alright with it you” which was surprising
but Ross is a solid bass player !
Interesting that both bass players had a stingray style bass
Toto’s bass player had a sonic blue G&L kiloton
Ross look like he had three stingrays
A black
Natural and a aged white one
looks like a pre Ernie balls to me
As a huge fan Toto I was so excited
great Mix
but disappointed in journeys mix
Bass was super compressed all I could hear was attack and vocals had almost all the lows dialed out and lacked body
but aside from that the playing was awesome!
Aside from the albums I’ve never really listened to Ross valorys playing and they even played “I’ll be alright with it you” which was surprising
but Ross is a solid bass player !
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