THIS IS FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO WANT A ERNIE BALL BUT CANT AFFORD IT...

OH MY GOD!!! THEY JUST CAME OUT WITH SLICED BREAD!!! YOU GUYS GOTTA TRY IT!!!!!!

sorry man, this is old news

 

by the way, OLP stands for Officially Licensed Product. I think the Stingray you were playing was just improperly setup. All the OLPs I have played were noticeably lower quality than their MM counterparts. But if you cant tell the difference, more power to ya...

 

If anyone would notice that there are many many threads on the OLPs. If you will notice, the OLP's are nowhere near the quality, or sound of the real thing. They might be similar, but not really comparable.

jtbp

 

Kind of like the difference between a Squier and an MIA Fender.

frankencow, the OLP Stingrays are made in China, not Mexico. And there are a lot of differences between the OLP and the Ernie Ball. The Ernie Ball has a preamp, the OLP does not. The Stingray is made out of poplar(solid color) or ash(transparent color), the OLP is made of elm. The Stingray 5 has wide string spacing, the OLP 5 has very narrow string spacing.

But the OLPs are good values for the price, and if you want a bass that looks like a Stingray, they are better than most of the inexpensive Stingray clones on the market. But the looks is what you get. They sound pretty good, but the don't sound like a 'Ray. There's only one place where you can get that sound. Ernie Ball.

Welcome to Talkbass, and enjoy your new bass.

 

Buying an OLP is like buying a Mitsubishi Eclipse RS, sure it looks the same, but the GSX has 60 more horsepower and AWD.

God I hate the lowest line of a car.

 

Actually, Mitsubishi discontinued the Eclipse GSX when they redesigned it. Now you can't get an eclipse with turbo or all-wheel drive, just V-6 and front-wheel drive. It's slower and doesn't handle as well, but somehow it's selling a million times better than the old version.

 

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That's pretty much suming everything I have to say up...

This subject has 3-5 threads debating the same thing... Embellisher pretty much sumed all of them up for you in short.




I honestly laughed when I heard that they were made of Elm, but that's just my opinion... I've joked with people about making a drift wood bass...

 

poplar?? ernie balls are made of poplar!?!

MIM Fenders are made of poplar. I was hoping theyd at least be alder.

are blue dawn finished MMs poplar too?

 

MM's are made of "select hard woods"
It varies from which color it is.

I'd actually like to get my hands on some literature that says which colors are which woods...

 

There's nothing wrong with poplar as a tone wood. It's just not very pretty, which is why a lot of companies(Ernie Ball, Zon, Peavey) use it for their painted basses.

 

I think the solid colored MM's are actually alder.

 

I have a friend who stripped a '98 down to put a clear finish on it, and it was 3 pieces of poplar. One of them had a lot of green in it. Needless to say, he went with a solid color.

 

FWIW my '79 MM Stingray has a poplar body so Stingray's have probably been poplar since the start. I find poplar to have a nice resonance.

tapp

 

[johnny carson] I did not know that! .. weird wild stuff![/johnny]

 

Well, I'd get an OLP EB anyday of the week over a Squire, or most Fenders, USA or not. And I'm a guy who owns 1, and appreciates lots of high end basses. The OLP is one dang good bass for the money; I've never played a better $300 bass, or one as good for twice the money. So my opinions are below, good prices, good basses...

"High-end Bass" = Peavey Cirrus $ 600 and up used
"Budget-Basses" = OLP Ernie Ball knockoff, $250

and NO, I don't want to hear that the Cirrus isn't a high-end bass, I don't care if it doesn't cost $4000US, it's the quality I care about. I don't need a Lull or Alembic or any other boutique bass.

Go OLP!!!

 

In Swedish (translated):
Poplar is good tone wood. Many times underrated.
Ash is good tone wood. Sometimes overrated.
Elm is good tone wood. Always much underrated.

Or in American:
Poplar is great. Ash is superb. Elm is excellent.

 

STINGRAYS are made of POPLAR! Yes, POPLAR!

Poplar is BAD!

Spread the word!
Then I will buy all the price dropped, cheap Stingrays, he, he.