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Stingray - Standard 2EQ vs Classic

#2
I would go with the Classic. It has the mutes, string through body, birds eye or tiger striped maple, chrome wheel and is all around just an incredible bass.
 
#4
Hello, someone can explain me the difference between a standard 2EQ and a classic? The classic has mute pads, birdseye maple neck, and the strings through body, but would like to know if the pickup and the 2eq preamps are the same. Someone who has tried them both? it sound similar? Thanks.
Sorry for my english
 
#5
I prefer the standard. The standards are 3 band.

The Classic is heavier and less comfortable to play than my standard, due to the slab body. The sound of it is indeed classic. It's nice and punchy with the bass control turned up some. The highs are pretty over the top, so I cut them quite a bit. When I play the Classic, I miss the mid control on my standard Stingray 5. To be honest, I'm returning the Classic. It looks incredible and sounds like a classic Ray should sound, but it's not a sound I can't get close enough to with the standard.
 
#6
there is also the standard 2EQ. I asking a comparison between standard 2eq and classic. In theory should have the same sound or very similar, if the 2eq preamp is the same, or i am wrong?
 
#13
I have owned several of both. All Stingrays are good basses no doubt. After owning almost every type of bass on the planet I have decided the ultimate is a Stingray for sure (at least for me).

That being said there is a reason the Classic cost more, get the Classic. The quality, construction, tone, playability, of the Classic has a bit of extra special magic mojo.

For some reason the two band just sounds way better. Not sure why but it does.

All that being said there could be a reason for wanting the mid control. The three band bass definitely has a really different sound and I could never get the 3 band to sound like the 2 when I owned both.

I suggest playing both if you can. The Standard Stingray is a fine bass. The SR5 is a fine Bass. The Classic is a dream machine.

I wish I still had my old original fretless Stingray with the trans red finish and clear pickguard. I sold it to a guy who had Greg Curbow put frets on it. I wonder where it is now? Ya cant miss it because it had a Bartolini pickup and a Kahler on it. A whammy bar is such a wonderful thing with fretless. I would never do that sort of thing to a bass these days though.

Dear Lord God thank you for the Stingray!


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#15
millsbass5 said:
I've always been curious as to why the majority of players prefer the old 2-band eq, as opposed to the current 3-band. And, please don't come off with "One has mids, and the other don't." Someone's honest take between the two would be nice.

Thanks, Steve
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Words are going to be difficult to come by to explain the difference in tone (for me anyway). There is no mistaking the tonal difference between the 3 and the 2 once you have played and heard them both.

There is this beefy pretty clarity that the 2 has with an ever so slight mid scoop but in just the right place. The 3 has more punch but less clarity sparkly thing going. The 2 band has this solidness to the low end that has no equal in any other bass ever produced.

I have fallen in love with the tone of the Classic to a point of no return.
 
#16
Red Planet said:
Words are going to be difficult to come by to explain the difference in tone (for me anyway). There is no mistaking the tonal difference between the 3 and the 2 once you have played and heard them both.

There is this beefy pretty clarity that the 2 has with an ever so slight mid scoop but in just the right place. The 3 has more punch but less clarity sparkly thing going. The 2 band has this solidness to the low end that has no equal in any other bass ever produced.

I have fallen in love with the tone of the Classic to a point of no return.
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Wow. Nice description of the differences in tone. You need a job with Bass Player Magazine reviewing basses. But, who'd want bass-after-bass-after-bass delivered to their doorstep to play, and test? Sheesh, what was I thinkin'..... :hiding:
 
#17
millsbass5 said:
I've always been curious as to why the majority of players prefer the old 2-band eq, as opposed to the current 3-band.
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I'm no doubt a lover of the 2 band, but even I'll admit EBMM sells more 3eq's than they did 2eq's, well until the Classics came out, but still way more 3's.
It's not the same preamp with a simple mid control added; The preamps are actually voiced differently, the 3 is voiced more in the upper mids.
The lower voiced mids just plain make the 2eq sound fatter in the lows.

Which one someone likes is totally subjective.
 
#18
I have an 83' and had a 96' 3-band at the same time.

IMO, the older basses are usually heavier but there are huge variances.
I didn't notice a huge difference between the two and didn't love the mid freq or Q.
I kept the 2 band even though the other was lighter and had a better neck.
+1 for gloss necks
 
#19
SO YOU HAD TO START THIS STUPID THREAD!!
I haven't played the SR in 2 years as I rediscovered 2 old P basses.
Just for fun I thought I'd plug it in knowing that it would be all bright and burpy and light in the low mids. Turned the tweeter off on the 2x12 and had a big mid bass boost on the 7 Pro and it kills.
With right hand technique closer than normal to the neck and it could be a P bass in a live mix. Mine has a really flat neck in the back with 1 5/8 nut; plays really well in spite of a slight ski jump and the fact it weighs 1 million lbs.
Freakin thing is possessed.
Played bass lines I've never played before.
Stupid TB forum....
 

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