What would be a nice complement to my MM Stingray?

[BioDriver]

A fretless Stingray.

 

[Koog]

P Bass. Unlikely you'll find a good one for$400-$700 though. I like mid '70s, but best value for the $$ might be early '80s vintage.

Koog.

 

[Smallmouth_Bass]

I was going to say a P-Bass too.

 

[Dangit]

I have a Stingray and an L-1000. Great compliment to each other, but the way I use the L-1000 could probably be done with a P-bass just as well. Both are awesome in my book.

 

[Georynn]

Fender Roscoe Beck? lots of tonal options... single/series/parallel switching on each individual pickup, opens up lots P and J sounding options, and all points in between, and beyond...

 

[Tunaman]

Its a P bass for sure, I needed one for that different "round" sound. The Jazz has same midrange presence but its a different tone, more like a hollow honk that you can't get with a Stingray.

 

[mongo2]

No no no and a million times no.

The G&L L2000 does not sound anything like a Stingray. It sounds lovely, but it does NOT do a Stingray sound. Oh no. Not at all, Sir.
It does, however, a great... L2000 sound, and a bodybuilder P-bass territory type od sound that's not a P-bass either, yet a lot closer to a P-bass than the most Stingray-like tone it can produce is close to a Stingray.

I replaced both my Stingray and Sterling with an L2000 and never looked back. The L2000 sounds so much better just passive (I don't use the preamp) than either do with their preamps and I can actually hear the G string on the L2000.

 

[Altitude]

You might find a used Pedulla Rapture with pickups in the J configuration on the top end of that price range. That would give you a great jazz bass tone, but the Pedulla body is very small and you may like the geometry for your body size. Classic Fender J bodies are actually rather large.

Pedullas have really great necks, too.

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[jlepre]

Replace your SINGLE H SR5 with an HH SR5. Plus get a rosewood board instead of maple. There, problem solved.

 

[Rocksolid]

I take a SR5 and my Reggie V PJ to my cover gigs and there is not one tonal requirement I don't have covered.

In your price range you might be able to get a P bass deluxe V - one of the mex made ones which I believe are supposed to be pretty good.

That said - if I have to sell all my basses except 2 I would keep my SR5 and my CS Jazz 64 4 string. I don't care what anyone says - a Jazz can do P bass tone with the neck Pup solo'd.

 

[mcnach]

I replaced both my Stingray and Sterling with an L2000 and never looked back. The L2000 sounds so much better just passive (I don't use the preamp) than either do with their preamps and I can actually hear the G string on the L2000.

The L2000 is fantastic, I agree. I have the L2500 (5-string version) and also tend to play it passive. I love it. But it does not sound like a Stingray, so in that sense it cannot replace it, that's what prompted my reply.
Of course one can replace a Stingray with a Telecaster, if that's what you prefer but it doesn't mean they're equivalent.

I tend to favour the Stingray (4 or 5 string), just personal taste (and can't say I have a problem with G-strings) (yes, still talking bass )
But sometimes another bass can get a better sound. I have only had my G&L for about a month, and when my band decided to try a different bassline on a recording we're making, I tried the G&L (originally recorded the Stingray 4-string). On that particular track the G&L sounded perfect: really fat but with excellent definition and powerful...

but I digress... I just love those two *very different* basses.

 

[Ric5]

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[danomite64]

My, what a shiny paint job you have?

 

[Billy3000]

I vote P bass or Rickenbacker.

 

[Munjibunga]

"Wow! That Stingray sounds great, and looks fabulous, too!"

 

[badboy1984]

I think a Jazz or Precision is a nice complement to your Stingray. I think everyone should have at least either one ........