bovinehost said:
That's not a StingRay...it's a Sterling. 22 fret neck, the more oblong Sterling pickguard, the skinnier upper horn...it's all Sterling.
But someone did the full Bartolini (barf) electronics package on it. (yak-ugh!)
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That's not a StingRay...it's a Sterling. 22 fret neck, the more oblong Sterling pickguard, the skinnier upper horn...it's all Sterling.
But someone did the full Bartolini (barf) electronics package on it. (yak-ugh!)
Vic said:
The original style saddles used from 76-93ish have vary narrow grooves for the string to sit in. When the bridge was a string through, there was no issue with strings getting pulled out of the string slots. Then when the bridge got changed to a top-load bridge, some heavy handed people would tend to pull the string up out of the slots playing too hard because the the angle the strings came from the tail piece and over the saddles (has never been an issue with my old MM's). Flea had this issue, so EB changed the saddles so there was no more side angle of the string coming from the tail piece, the string were now straight out of the tail piece and had a better break angle over the saddles, no more issues of them getting pulled out of the string slots.
Then in the late 90's EB changed to the short style bridge and put those massive bridge saddles with deep slots we see today.
You can see pics and history at Link Removed
Seems like you're saying they most recently changed the bridges such that the strings come straight across the saddles... BUT...
My SR5 is brand new, even has the compensating nut, is a top loader, and DOES have the strings kinda go at a side angle! They DON'T come straight from the hole over the saddle, which is why I noticed it and asked here. I don't attack my bass like Flea does, so for me it's more of a curiosity of why they'd even have them come from a side angle at all. It's not drastic, but again, noticeable.
Your bridge is fine.
Earlier you used this pic of an old bass, and is has the example in the side angle with not much break angle that I'm talking about.
This particualr bridge has had the intonation screws switch places where the strings originally came out from, that's an old trick. normally the string are coming from the other direction.
But you can see the angle the strings would be at, how they could be easy to yank out of the slots, especially the E.
30th Anniversary, Dargie Delight, Blue Dawn, Buttercream
Do the two H and two HH sound very different? Not H vs HH but H vs H and HH vs HH.
I don't have a Stingray and am curious.
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Jim,
Yes they all sound different
the single H basses are different, one has a 3 band eq, and sounds different than the other with the 2 band eq.
the two HH's are different becasue the 4 string has alnico pickups and those are wired in parallel, and the 5 string has ceramic pickups and those are wired in series, sounds different. But still more or less are all still a Musicman characteristic sound.
Yes they all sound different
the single H basses are different, one has a 3 band eq, and sounds different than the other with the 2 band eq.
the two HH's are different becasue the 4 string has alnico pickups and those are wired in parallel, and the 5 string has ceramic pickups and those are wired in series, sounds different. But still more or less are all still a Musicman characteristic sound.
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Yeah, my bad in not clarifying that, and yeah, I know there's nothing wrong with my bridge, I was just curious why the strings don't have a straight path, is all, 'cause on other basses I own, they do.
Nino Valenti said:
I left my preEB's out of this thread since Figgy only wanted to see EBMM's...
Yeah, who would want to see this old clinker?
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That's Nice. I had a 76 Ray the same color combo as yours.I left my preEB's out of this thread since Figgy only wanted to see EBMM's...
Yeah, who would want to see this old clinker?
Here is my 83 pre EB Ray:
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I can't find my reading glasses (sucks to get old) and I know all about the EBMM bridges, but that still doesn't look like a standard EBMM bridge to me.
I think Nino stole my glasses.
I think Nino stole my glasses.
It sure looks like it to me, but bovinehost is VERY in-the-know on the EBMM stuff, so his challenge holds a lot of juice.
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Errr, yes, well, Nino returned my glasses, and, um, well, HEY LOOK, it's the Goodyear Blimp!
OK EB MM Gurus,
Can you describe the tonal differences between the alder/ash, mahogany body, and the anniv bass with the mahogany tone block?
I'm slighly gas'sing for one, either an H or HH.
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Can you describe the tonal differences between the alder/ash, mahogany body, and the anniv bass with the mahogany tone block?
I'm slighly gas'sing for one, either an H or HH.
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I'm with Vic on getting the H but then I am but a simple man.
I cannot describe all those differences because I'm not sure what's causing the tone diffs in my basses, but I can say this - the anniversary SR5 with the tone block is quite possibly THE best bovinehost tone I've ever encountered.
But then there's a lot of stuff going on there - the alnico magnets (vs ceramic on 'regular' SR5s), a revamped preamp and then the tone block. I just don't know. I guess I'd have to say it's a combination of those things.
The straight mahogany body on the 30th SR4 has some serious gnarly growl in the high mids which I think can be attributed to the body wood.
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