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With which genre or playing style are Stingrays commonly associated?

ninjaaron

ninjaaron

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I don't have a Stingray, but I have a cheap bass that's sort of in the same vein (two passive, SR style HBs with active preamp. Neck-through instead of bolt, but whateva).

Anyway, I recently heard someone call the Stingray a one-trick-pony, and I frankly wasn't sure what they meant. I'm a newb to bass, so I don't know the lore on these things yet. I will say I've seen a lot more people play rock on a Stingray than anything else. I haven't come up on any real limitations with my bass, with that active EQ, but I also play rock, So I'm kinda looking for that huge, punchy, P-on-steroids sound anyway, with bite to taste courtesy of an active treble control.

So yeah, what's the "one trick?"
 
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I think they play well in any genre, or playing style. I'll play mine for any style.

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OK, I get that you can play any style on any bass, and that will be especially true for the 3rd most iconic bass out there, but I'm just asking what that guy might have been talking about when he called it a "one-trick pony." Is there a stereotype connected with the Stingray?
 
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Ronbeast said:
The only people who will even notice it's a stingray are bass players and gear aficionados.
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Hey man, I've known what a Stingray was almost since I started playing guitar, 13 years ago. That was the year Lateralus came out. I loved that album, and man, Justin Chancellor. I had to figure out what was making that beautiful sound! Ever since then, whenever I hear a bass tone that made me wish I were a bassist, it was usually a Ray. Not that there weren't a few times it was a P...
 
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ninjaaron said:
OK, I get that you can play any style on any bass, and that will be especially true for the 3rd most iconic bass out there, but I'm just asking what that guy might have been talking about when he called it a "one-trick pony." Is there a stereotype connected with the Stingray?
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The only really answer to that is that the guy who said it was maybe capable of only one trick with the Stingray.

I don't know what the guy is talking about. I'm not sure he is, either, he just doesn't know it. Why are you concerned with it? There's many folks here telling you what all different styles they use their Stingray on. And I'm one of them. No, there is no negative stereotype associated with the Stingray. It's certainly not the only really, really great bass out there. I love me some Precision bass, too. But the Ray is my go to bass.

Feel better now?...:D
 
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Geri O said:
Feel better now?...:D
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I actually felt great before! My bass does everything I want it to so far!

To be fair to said "guy," I was this YouTuber, Bass Whisperer, and he was demonstrating how versatile a Stingray was "for those of you who think it's a one-trick pony."

I'd just never heard that before and was trying to parse it.
 

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