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Music Man StingRay Club | PART FIVE

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Guys, just grab a Nordy MM4.2 pup. That thing pretty much nails the old school Stingray tone.

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SteveCS said:
In addition to saving the MM company from oblivion, EB replaced the original 3-bolt microtilt with the 6-bolt neck joint, the headstock-weakening bullet truss with the pin adjuster, better bridge geometry and HH/HS options. The 2-band used today is electrically unchanged from that used in the first StingRay, the 3-band is excellent in its own right and the proportion of EB 'Rays with ceramic pickups is very small. IMHO the StingRay is an instrument for players not cork-sniffers.
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I know, I bought a 78 stingray recently and with the V6 am missing adequate mid control. I read an article that said EB used alinco then ceramic and now neo's. I must have typed "in the stingray" and that is obviously not correct. It's Alinco's in the stingray, ceramic in the Bongo's and they are going to be using neo's. I appologize for the typo. People jump in an incorrect fact so much that by the end of it nobody knows what the original incorrect fact actually was. I brought up the fact that some Tube heads like the SVT and V6 come with sealed cabs. The conversation was about cone excursion and somebody wrote back and said what i said wasn't true because there was a Sunn head in the 70's that came with a ported cab. Cork sniffer.
 
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mouthmw said:
Indeed it is! Wanted to convert my 3 band ray to a classic 2 band which I prefer and get closer to a pre-eb tone. I'm very happy with the Nordstrand MM4.2 and John East combo. I think it nails it!
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I'm considering that combo for a SBMM Ray5ca. That or just locating a Classic 5
which is more costly. And probably won't
have the pre EB tone.
 
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bassmike2010 said:
I'm considering that combo for a SBMM Ray5ca. That or just locating a Classic 5
which is more costly. And probably won't
have the pre EB tone.
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If your Ray5CA is a good player, I'd say go for it! Classic Stingrays sound great (probably wouldn't touch a thing if mine was a 2 bander), and it's very close either way, but I feel that the John East / Nordstrand combo gets closer to the pre-eb tone ;) Oh and I really like the mid controls, it definitely adds versatility (I mostly just bump the low mids though, just a smidge). I pretty much just have it set and leave it, just the way I did back when I had a 2 band USA SUB. I used to fiddle with the controls a lot more on the 3 bander.
 
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Bigbri said:
I know, I bought a 78 stingray recently and with the V6 am missing adequate mid control. I read an article that said EB used alinco then ceramic and now neo's. I must have typed "in the stingray" and that is obviously not correct. It's Alinco's in the stingray, ceramic in the Bongo's and they are going to be using neo's. I appologize for the typo. People jump in an incorrect fact so much that by the end of it nobody knows what the original incorrect fact actually was. I brought up the fact that some Tube heads like the SVT and V6 come with sealed cabs. The conversation was about cone excursion and somebody wrote back and said what i said wasn't true because there was a Sunn head in the 70's that came with a ported cab. Cork sniffer.
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mouthmw said:
Guys, just grab a Nordy MM4.2 pup. That thing pretty much nails the old school Stingray tone.

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It must have been the strings available that led Leo to be constantly changing pole piece height. I think they settled on neck radius.
 
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Bigbri said:
I must have typed "in the stingray" and that is obviously not correct. It's Alinco's in the stingray, ceramic in the Bongo's and they are going to be using neo's. I appologize for the typo.
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Sorry to be that guy in advance...

Stingray 4's have always been alnico up until these new 2018 versions with neo pickups and 18v preamps.

Stingray 5's were alnico, then ceramic, and back to alnico in 2008 when the US Sterling 5 was released.

Sterling 4's and 5's have always been ceramic.

Bongos have always been neo if I remember correctly.
 
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Dave W said:
Sorry to be that guy in advance...

Stingray 4's have always been alnico up until these new 2018 versions with neo pickups and 18v preamps.

Stingray 5's were alnico, then ceramic, and back to alnico in 2008 when the US Sterling 5 was released.

Sterling 4's and 5's have always been ceramic.

Bongos have always been neo if I remember correctly.
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This.
 
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Stevorebob said:
Actually, cork sniffers, in the literal sense, are the truly unknowing. Sniffing a cork tells you nothing about the wine. The cork inspection ritual is about reading what's printed on the cork to verify it matches the wine label. So, a cork sniffer is a poser.
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Sorry, man, that is incorrect. I worked in the wine industry. The main thing about smelling the cork is to smell for mold/mildew. If the wine was stored upright (the cork not touched by wine), it can sour the wine. (Hence the term "corked" for wine gone bad) . Smelling the cork is the first step in judging the quality of the bottle that's been brought to you.
 
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