i have a singray and it is an active bass.....i checked the battery and everything but it doesn't seem to be that "active" to me....i mean it changes a little but not very much....i took the battery out and it sounded pretty much the same out of my amp.....i don't mind it because my previous bass was passive......also i use the passive input on my amp so i can get the volume i want...the active input just isn't loud enough with my stingray...is this common....maybe it's just me but the stingray seems to be kindof a hybrid between passive and active.....what do you guys think?
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stingray eq question
- Thread starter kilgoja
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something you should know about Stingray basses, and many other active basses, is that if you leave the jack plugged in it drains the battery.
so you always gotta leave it unplugged after playing.
just some helpful advice from a fellow Stingray owner.
so you always gotta leave it unplugged after playing.
just some helpful advice from a fellow Stingray owner.
Yeah, same for me with my new Sterling. It seems to be better using the passive input. I guess it depends on the amp, effects, and such. The active input seems to kill all of the power. The MM pickup sure isn't as powerful as the G&L active pup. Those are some powerful mofo's. Too powerful even. When I had my ASAT I used it in passive mode most of the time.
I wish the Sterling had a passive /active switch. Thats one place where the MM lacks.
I wish the Sterling had a passive /active switch. Thats one place where the MM lacks.
It doesn't seem right to me that the bass would amp at all without a battery. If the preamp on your bass was original or connected, you wouldn't get a signal without a battery.
it's brand new ...only a month old and it does work without a battery....the tone knobs don't work ....just the volume...but you can shape your tone with an amp....so you get the same sound either way....turn the bass up on your tone knob or the amp....it's still bass....it's still treble ....still mids.....all i'm saying is that the bass guitar itself doesn't add or take away a whole lot of bass middle or treble......just a slight bit...where as with an amp you can add or take away tons of it....i think tone knobs are really just for on the fly shaping of your sound while your playing so you don't have to adjust your amp ....but if you set your amp right to begin with then it really doesn't matter unless you're playing some kind of solo or something for a certain song
my stingray '02 will not work without the battery in. Theres no bypass in a stingray, sumthings funny.
i swear to you mine works without a battery....the battery just allows for the active eq knobs to work...without the battery the bass, treble, and mid knobs don't work but you still get sound....it's not really a whole lot less of volume either....at least not on mine....mine is a 05' model so i don't know...it may be a failsafe if your battery goes dead in a concert or something ...i don't know
i'm toying with the thought of just playing it without a battery like a passive bass and just using my amp to eq it....i mean my amp has 2 eq's on it already...it's a mesa 400+ with dial eq and slider eq
the only knob i really use anyway is the bass knob all the way up....i leave the treble and mid knobs flat
it still sounds like a stingray without the battery so why not....hmmmm
i'm toying with the thought of just playing it without a battery like a passive bass and just using my amp to eq it....i mean my amp has 2 eq's on it already...it's a mesa 400+ with dial eq and slider eq
the only knob i really use anyway is the bass knob all the way up....i leave the treble and mid knobs flat
it still sounds like a stingray without the battery so why not....hmmmm
I sell and work on Stingrays all the time. I do replace the imputs quite often and have also seen your particular problem before. If you feel up to it take out the screws out of your imput, and resoldure all the connections (just heat up the connections and let them reset) If that doesnt work you probably need a new imput. They're not very expensive.
