This is interesting... Sire MM Bass???

[Heiwa]

The lower horn looks awful, and the 3+1 trademark thing is BS. I hate them for that.

 

[Marc DLarosa]

Then...
we'll see them selling for DOUBLE in the classifieds here, in two years...

[edit] I should buy 10. 1st year (BEST) MM copy (EVER). What's your favorite color?

 

[MattZilla]

I’m surprised and dismayed that instead of a unique horned amorphous blob with a MM shaped hugebucker in the MM sweetspot and backrouted controls and no pickguard or their own pickguard and possibly good electronics it’s an obvious clone made more obvious with the toiletseat cutoff pick guard and made even more obvious with the chrome control plate and just insultingly obvious with that stupid bridge. The headstock is capital t Tacky.

StingRays aren’t particularly good looking or iconic looking like a Ric, a J, or a P. I don’t get it.

For $500-600 I have to imagine they must’ve reached some licensing deal with the Ball family to make them look so close, have less awful hardware as the Sterling By’s… but then the electronics will have to be something that lets Sterling By’s have a leg up.

I’m looking forward to some TBer posting a video comparison of a Work Tool EBMM StingRay and one of these cosplaying MM Shaped Object to hear if out of the box it does The StingRay Sound or it sounds muffly & bland like every other cheap pickup & cheap preamp equipped bass that I’ve played.

 

[jimmydean]

Oh Dear , now I have to pre-order a z3 in white from Sweetwater !

 

[LAST_C]

I know the tuners were installed in a 3+1 configuration, but the headstock itself is very different from a MM.

I highly doubt they would release these basses without advise from their lawyers.

 

[80jazz]

The Z7 comes with HS pickups.

Sire Marcus Miller Z7 4-String

Burgundy mist?

I think I am already in trouble.

 

[NC_Rob]

Good grief you people are killing my bank account.

Edit: Z7 5 string ordered

 

[prndltech]

Exactly what I wanted! A stingray with an active/passive option! I’m definitely interested in a 5 string.

 

[IotaNet]

These are obvious MM knockoffs but for a different perspective on the shape, compare it to a Lakland ...

 

[FirewalZ]

The rest of it: they copied a MM and parts of the very first serious MM clone from Lakland.

I thought the first MM clone would have been from G&L? However seeing as how they were both from Leo, I'm not sure that would be considered a "clone".

 

[stringthrough]

Oh, yea!!!

Should eat into MM/EB low-end line, big time.

 

[tremor100]

These are obvious MM knockoffs but for a different perspective on the shape, compare it to a Lakland ...

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To me, the lakland is significantly different than the Stingray, in fact, if it didn't have a humbucker MM style pickup im unsure you would draw much of a comparison towards the two at all. The sire literally has an extremely similar control plate, pickguard, and its even trying to mimic the headstock, if they didn't turn the horn into a stub it would be the exact same outline as well.

 

[Jimmyll]

These are obvious MM knockoffs but for a different perspective on the shape, compare it to a Lakland ...

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various stages of limb regeneration

 

[groooooove]

looks so cool. love the finish! probably a great bass a that price.

 

[NKBassman]

Dig it, but wish it came in classic plain black/maple too.

 

[Bassdirty]

Yea, That lower horn looks... odd to me.

I'm sure they did it to make it as "different" as possible from the MM. But.. still.. Yikes.

T$

 

[DWBass]

To me, the lakland is significantly different than the Stingray, in fact, if it didn't have a humbucker MM style pickup im unsure you would draw much of a comparison towards the two at all. The sire literally has an extremely similar control plate, pickguard, and its even trying to mimic the headstock, if they didn't turn the horn into a stub it would be the exact same outline as well.

Agreed. The Lakland was competing with the Peavey Milennium. Not the Stingray.

 

[Maestro29]

I smell a cease and desist coming.

I’m far more interested in the new F10 single cut they’re releasing. The Rob Allen like acoustics look pretty interesting too.

Im also a little surprised Z7 is cheaper than the V8 bass.

 

[bigdaddybass12]

Looks like it will have p-bass nut width like the Sterling ray34. (4-string version) I wish it had Jazz bass nut width like the Sterling Ray24. I love the feel and sound of the Sterling Ray24 but I have had really bad luck with multiple copies of that model. Terrible quality control. I have been looking for a better Stingray alternative that won't put me in the poor house.

Have you looked at the G&L Kiloton ? I am thinking about one.

 

[darwin-bass]

3+1 headstock too? There's some lawyers suiting up...

This. If you want one get one now. Suspect there will be lawyers involved and the basses won't survive the process. I sure hope I'm wrong though.