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SBMM Stingray Short scale

#244
So I decided to keep mine after all.
It’s a finicky guy with the amp settings. And today’s settings might not be what my ear wants for tomorrow. Generally I can dial it in pretty quick now though.
As said above, it is FANTASTIC in the mix. Also, one of you said that it makes you smile. ...that was the key for me. My SS Jag is a workhorse and does the job, but I never get a tone that makes me smile and proud. This Stingray does. Often.
My favorite setting is not boosted, dialed To the left, parallel mode. Tone about 1/2 way.
On my Ampeg combo, I keep the bass and the treble about noonish, depending, and the mids fairly low at about 9:00.

What’s everyone else’s favorite setting? And how do you dial it in with your amps?
 
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Winnie1138 said:
So I decided to keep mine after all.
It’s a finicky guy with the amp settings. And today’s settings might not be what my ear wants for tomorrow. Generally I can dial it in pretty quick now though.
As said above, it is FANTASTIC in the mix. Also, one of you said that it makes you smile. ...that was the key for me. My SS Jag is a workhorse and does the job, but I never get a tone that makes me smile and proud. This Stingray does. Often.
My favorite setting is not boosted, dialed To the left, parallel mode. Tone about 1/2 way.
On my Ampeg combo, I keep the bass and the treble about noonish, depending, and the mids fairly low at about 9:00.

What’s everyone else’s favorite setting? And how do you dial it in with your amps?
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I also prefer parallel mode, not boosted. I have flats and play with the tone open though. I have been running it through my gt-1b using a modified modern drive setting, which is a SVT model with parametric eq. Slight bump to bass, low mids down, high mids and treble flatish. Usually play with a compressor/limiter but I haven’t exactly figured that out yet lol
 
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Winnie1138 said:
So I decided to keep mine after all.
It’s a finicky guy with the amp settings. And today’s settings might not be what my ear wants for tomorrow. Generally I can dial it in pretty quick now though.
As said above, it is FANTASTIC in the mix. Also, one of you said that it makes you smile. ...that was the key for me. My SS Jag is a workhorse and does the job, but I never get a tone that makes me smile and proud. This Stingray does. Often.
My favorite setting is not boosted, dialed To the left, parallel mode. Tone about 1/2 way.
On my Ampeg combo, I keep the bass and the treble about noonish, depending, and the mids fairly low at about 9:00.

What’s everyone else’s favorite setting? And how do you dial it in with your amps?
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That’s outstanding!!
Agreed
I think my settings are very similar to yours !
My ears likes it for sure !
Keep enjoying it
Glad you are !!!
 
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Hunter Erwin said:
Still loving each minute of this Bass
Hope you guys are too
I also am getting better at mix on recording a video of the little feller .
Learn a little more each time !
But not my thing on that side
Too Impatient !

I do believe in a great studio it will really shine I have not tried it yet .
But I know it will be great .
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Nice!! What’s your favorite setting for it, and how are you dialing it in?
 
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Winnie1138 said:
Nice!! What’s your favorite setting for it, and how are you dialing it in?
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Thanks much
You know I have enjoyed the parallel setting the most for the styles I’ve been playing
on and volume dial all the way up with boost off and tone about mid ways .

I have been happy with the tone .
Of course the single coil seems nice for that bite and if you want the bass rolled off and give it that bark !
But the parallel all the way to the right is nice to me for all playing
 
#251
OK, finally got the opportunity to play the Stingray with my band last week. I started a once per month old timers group I put together via craigslist. I've only been playing for two years, so this is the first group of people I have played with. I don't know what he hell I'm doing, but I'm having a blast. We primarily play covers (Indie/Alt Rock) but currently working on a couple of originals. Hopefully we might eventually get good enough to start playing out somewhere later this year. Here are a couple of clips from that practice so you can check out the Stingray sound. I do plan to swap out the strings to D'Addario rounds, but I'm really digging everything about this little guy so far!




 
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#252
Christcr said:
Anyone notice the vendor on Reverb yesterday that was selling these (new) for, like, $370 dollars? I almost bought one just for a spare. Needless to say, they are gone now.
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I think I bought one from the same vendor. I was really excited. Turns out I was refunded due to “order processing/shipping error”. Don’t exactly know what that means but at least I didn’t lose any money. Now I have to scour around to try to find one without wait g months. Lol
 
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Dougflores said:
I think I bought one from the same vendor. I was really excited. Turns out I was refunded due to “order processing/shipping error”. Don’t exactly know what that means but at least I didn’t lose any money. Now I have to scour around to try to find one without wait g months. Lol
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there is two of three available on reverb
Right now

I noticed as of yesterday !
 
#258
Speaking of proportions, I thought it might by instructive/enlightening to show a side-by-side (sorry about the crappy photo--the lighting is really bad today) of the SBMM short scale Stingray and the Music Man Stingray Special (regular size Stingray), for those of you wondering how much smaller the short scale is. As you can see... quite a lot. BUT, Music Man was careful to keep the short scale looking unmistakably like a Stingray. I like the proportions of the short scale Stingray more than any other short scale I've owned or seen. Some short scales are no less clunky than a standard scale. What is the point of that? If you are going to go short scale, take advantage of the proportion and make it as lean and mean as possible. Notice how close the bridge is to the heel of the body. THAT is the way to go. Less weight. Less bulk. Less neck dive because that extra neck length protruding from the body is minimized.

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