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stingray for alternative music?

dadodetres

dadodetres

Dec 19, 2004
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someone effered me to trade my fender fmt which im selling, for his stingray.....

i only tried a ray once, and love the playabiblity, but dont know about the tone, the music im doing is something between tool and pink floyd.ish..... would a musicman fit in there?
 
#2
I say go for it!

I play a Stingray for all styles, mostly alternative and it works extremely well. If its the 3-band EQ, you can adjust a little here and there.

The thing I love about mine is that it cuts through loud guitars really well.


Rock on!
 
#7
dadodetres said:
i onw another jazz bass, a 77. which is the one i use.

i get good tone from the bass into a sansamp bass driver with a compressor and a boss eq pedal, but not perfect tone, how would the ray chancge that?
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The Stingray has a bassier, more powerful, growlier, punchier, and more masculine sound. Part of this is due to the position of its pickup being more harmonically accurate, part of it is because MM pickups and preamps have much more gain and lows and highs than almost all pickups.

With all this, it may sound like to you that I am totally pro-Stingray, which is not true. When you buy a Stingray, you lose a great deal of clarity, the ability to play on the front pickup, and a you get much bigger neck. Sometimes I don't want so much back pickup, and with a Stingray that's all you have.

I prefer MM/J basses, hybrids between a Stingray and a Jazz. I like my 44-02 a lot, it can be like a Stingray or a Jazz, only it sounds better than both!
 
#12
dadodetres said:
so is the neck that big?
i remember when itried one some years ago it was bigger than my jazz...... and all my life i played thin necks
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The neck isn't that wide. (across the nut)

It's 1 5/8 inches at the nut. A Jazz bass is 1.5 inches, which would = 1 4/8 inches. A Stingray's neck is only 1/8 inch wider at the nut. Check out all the specs: Link Removed

My advice would be to get the Stingray, but then I am biased. ;)

Stingrays are so nice. :cool:

Mike
 
#17
Don't get a stingray. Too bright and Snappy. Get something vintage style and not with active electronics. Using a stingray for alt-rock is like letting a bull loose in a china shop. IMHO.

Why don't you like your FMT? (if you don't mind me asking)

If your FMT is to bright and aggressive sounding, a stingray will sound similar, but with less variety..

Honestly, though, there are major stingray devotees here at this forum who would probably disagree with everything I just said.

Go play one and make up your own mind. The Stingray is considered a classic, and there is no question that they are very well built. I prefer the ugly Bongo, though...it's got great tones!
 
#19
ok, who has used a Stingray?

Kim Deal - Pixies
Simon Gallup - The Cure
Flea
Tony Levin

No need to continue, lots of tones if you get to know the instrument.

Bottom? Tons. Dubby if you want.
Snap? If you want it, it's there, if not, roll it off.
Warmth? Once again, yes if you try.
 

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