Turn my MM Stingray from a H to HH

Yes you are crazy!(lol) Most folks that buy MM basses like them unmodified.You could put a few more buck with the money you would spend on unreversable modifications,and get a used HH somewhere.If it ain't broke,don't fix it. The Music Man tone is versitle as it is,in all configurations. If you like the bass that much,don't ruin it.

 

You could try and find someone that would do a body/electronic trade and keep your neck.

Other than that, I'd just save up and buy another HH.

 

I may get an H for cheap like 500$ and am going to try tp trade it for an HH.

I would not hack it up IMO.

 

If you plan to play it for a long time and aren't concerned about affecting resale value, then go ahead and have it added in.

In regards to the install, just get someone competent. I'm not soliciting business at all, but I'll tell you, if I personally installed it for you, it would look stock, and you'd never be able to tell it had been added later. Any competent luthier or builder should be able to do this...

 

The easy thing would be to buy a used HH, swap its neck with the one in your single H, and then sell the single H...

Also I dont think the humbucker of a single H ray and the bridge humbucker of a HH are in the same spot

 

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!
Buy a HH Bongo instead.

 

It's a piece of wood and some metal. Don't be afraid to do what you want with it. If you're never going to sell it, then I would say to mod it to your liking.

 

Yes but, often times people end up selling things after they've modded them unsuccessfully, at a horrific loss. Better to sell it and get something else, IMO. Or just get something else.

 

Yes they are. The location of the H and HH bridge pickup on the bongos are different though.

 

I'd always heard that EBMM refuses to sell their pickups/electronics/parts. Wouldn't you have to use a 3rd-party pickup? Or just hope to find a stock one that someone is selling?

 

+1

 

it ain't gonna work. Just buy an HH if you can

 

You'll come out way ahead by trading to get a factory-installed HH model. If you were digging into a Squier, I'd say, go for it! But this has the potential to destroy the value (both in resale and as a playable instrument) and is irreversible. Don't believe me? Check out the many, many posts concerning idiots who butchered a bass and then tried to peddle it on eBay. No sympathy, here.

Here are two good reason to trade up:

1. The resale value won't be affected, if you ever sell it.

2. If you get one built like that at the factory, you won't be subject to all the things that can go wrong in modifying your bass, including getting parts that aren't compatible, taking the risk of badly marring the finish when routing for the new pickup, making a misshapen hole in the top you can't stand, and, last but not least, ending up with something that doesn't work, or at least doesn't do what you want it to do. What if you screw it up and you find you liked it better before you changed it? Or that the electronics are unreliable?

This is a lesson I learned back in my hot rodding days: don't modify something just to make it cool: you end up hurting the performance and usually get a fiddly, unsatisfactory machine.

Sell the single H, buy an HH. Better yet, TRY OUT a factory HH and decide whether it's worth the expense of trading up and so on. Maybe you won't like it.

 

Besides, since you would have to get an aftermarket pup for the neck you would probably want to swap out the bridge pup as well so they match. By the time you drop that much cash on new electronics, getting the body professionally routed, and a new pickguard, wouldn't you be better off just upgrading to a factory HH?