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Waiting for new Stringray 5 with double H's

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Larry Kaye

Retailer: Schroeder Cabinets
Mar 23, 2000
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Cleveland, OH
#1
Anyone buy one yet? I've always had a love / hate with my stringrays, because they're not as versatile, I think I'd rather say flexible or adjustable without that second pickup, so I took the plunge and instead of buying a Korean bass, bought an American one. Let me know what you think or if you've played one of the 2 pickup Stringrays.

Lkaye
 
#3
What color did you get? Where'd ya get it?

I found a white one with a white pearloid pickguard, rosewood neck and white headstock with black pickups. It's a "tux bass" that I think will be outstanding looking with my wedding gigs...Hopefully it will sound as good as it looks.

The file is just too big to download here. Any suggestions for a non techie to easily "change" the file size of the picture I have?

Larry
 
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Larry Kaye said:
What color did you get? Where'd ya get it?

I found a white one with a white pearloid pickguard, rosewood neck and white headstock with black pickups. It's a "tux bass" that I think will be outstanding looking with my wedding gigs...Hopefully it will sound as good as it looks.

The file is just too big to download here. Any suggestions for a non techie to easily "change" the file size of the picture I have?

Larry
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Hey Larry. I played one at Tom's. Very nice.... still could sound 100% like a Stingray with the bridge pickup, but could get much fatter with both. Quite frankly, the two humbuckers seemed a little bit overkill. I've recently seen a new model advertised that has the standard MM pickup in the bridge, and a single coil in the neck position (ala Lakland). It think that would be my choice.

That being said... the two pickup version is great, and does add a little more variability to those basses. Fit and finish, and playability were great (it was a 4 string... I still find the 5 string spacing at the bridge much too tight... but that's personal taste).
 
#5
I hate to be a killjoy, but I suspect that Stingray haters will still dislike the two pup Stingray because although it has significantly more tonal options, all the options sound like a 'ray. To me, that is only to be expected. I mean, jazz basses always sound like Js, why should Stingrays be any different, however, for Stingray detractors, the new
basses will still be labeled "one trick ponies."
 
#6
Dr. Cheese said:
I hate to be a killjoy, but I suspect that Stingray haters will still dislike the two pup Stingray because although it has significantly more tonal options, all the options sound like a 'ray. To me, that is only to be expected. I mean, jazz basses always sound like Js, why should Stingrays be any different, however, for Stingray detractors, the new
basses will still be labeled "one trick ponies."
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Very good point... they definitely still sound like Stingrays... even with the additional tone options.
 
#7
Larry Kaye said:
What color did you get? Where'd ya get it?

I found a white one with a white pearloid pickguard, rosewood neck and white headstock with black pickups. It's a "tux bass" that I think will be outstanding looking with my wedding gigs...Hopefully it will sound as good as it looks.

The file is just too big to download here. Any suggestions for a non techie to easily "change" the file size of the picture I have?

Larry
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See sig. I ordered it direct from EBMM through Steve "Dude" Barr.
 
#14
Just played an HH stingray 4 at guitar center and totally loved the way it sounded through a big block 750 and mesa 4x10. Really want a 5 HH w/ a maple neck.

I really love the tone and feel of stingrays in general, and the added pickup makes it a much more versatile beast.

It is correct, you can shape the tone, but it is a stingray tone. The added pickup allowed me to get a much wider variety of the tone though, if that makes sense.

Didn't think that the two humbucker pickups were overkill, just makes it a more bad ass bass. Would totally make sense to have one set up in the lakland way though with a single coil. Will keep an eye out.
 
#19
syciprider said:
Mine will be here in April as well :) Black Cherry Burst with maple board. I also have an HH SR4. It can come close to a burping, clanky Rick sound in position 4 and a big P bass tone in position 5 (roll back the highs a bit). I love these basses!
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I think position 4 is more "P bassy" than 5, 5 reminds me of my guild B-302, a true "neck pickup" sound as opposed to the middle postion pickup of a P bass. I love position 5 for dub sounds and palm-muted lines.
 
#20
I pickup up my MM SR4 HH at Guitar Center two weeks ago...it was on sale, brand-new with HSC for $900 (luckily for me, my wife was cool with my GAS attack). They were insane to sell this bass for that price. It was hanging next to a single H SR that was priced at $1,275.

I think it's called Onyx Black (very light sparkle) and has an Abalone pickguard with rosewood fretboard. I really dig this bass and it's tones. I was actually looking to get a Lakland Skyline DJ 4 or a Fender Geddy Lee, but this HH combination really caught my ear. For comparison, I have a Fender Roscoe Beck V, a KSD Proto-J 705 and my baby, a Ken Smith BSR5MW, so I have a wide variety of vintage J & 70's J to modern sounds.

With this bass, what I see as most useful is that the coil selections allows me to find just the right combination to cut through the mix with my band. I really like #2 and #3, but the #1 is that SR sound I've always liked. I would say that heavy slappers will likely not like the neck H as it is positioned close to the neck and may get in the way. But for fingerstyle guys like me, the coil combinations offer lots of options.

This bass offers more than a "one-trick pony" sound in my opinion, but you can definitely get that 'ol SR sound.
 

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