stingrayPete1977

Just for the photo its back in the bedroom now! Bowing=terrible I really need a few lessons but I have a wrist op in september so its not worth it until after the op, by then I will have lots more bad habits

Luck wished

Looks nice, Is it hard to swap between sizes, I imagine it is?

This is my Gedo half carved, adjustable bridge,ebony board and Spirocore strings [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/FB_IMG_13731027234082487_zpscd5eaeb2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/FB_IMG_13731027234082487_zpscd5eaeb2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Yay I am learning, I might even align my own after tonights practice in honour of this thread

Chicken feed compared to proper basses $4500 dollars will get you a decent but student quality upright bass, another $800 will buy you a set of gut strings to put on it and if you sold the stacked knob Jazz at the top of the list you will even be able to buy a pernambuco bow so you can hear it!

I'm new to db but I wonder if the tail gut (?) Is offset and the vibrations are making it move across? I know mine needs putting straight since the last time I had the bridge off but I can't be bothered to mess right now as its sounding and playing well.

I'm on the lookout for a k&k bassmax

I am feeling the root beer though!

I'm still fighting feedback issues, sometimes I winner if I should have saved a couple of hundred quid and gone full laminate?

I could probably do your dep dude if I had a year to learn the set, by then I think the gig will have gone! Upright is where it's at anyway as you our demo is mastered actually and the pics are done, bit lame compared to yours now though, diner night next week?

The biggest missed opportunity bass wise will always be the graphite necked Flea Ray

But he was playing in California one night , russia the next!

Nice to see your perfect gig for the white GB Russ too, you must be the busiest bass player already, I don't know how you will find any spare dates! Wish I was good enough to pick up your deps

Ooooooshhh

If you are going to look inside then the first place to look is the earth connections both incoming and through to the input jack socket, if your not sure what you are doing let someone else fix it anyway

Nobody got any chalk puns then?

My 2002 hardly moved in ten years, Classic and pre were sealed other than where my 79 was worn through to the wood, awesome bass.

The neck profiles are chalk and cheese.

Gedo are the best company I have ever dealt with, brilliant service

[quote name='Old Horse Murphy' timestamp='1374431881' post='2148669'] I reckon my 82 Stingray is only just over 8lbs in weight. It's a lovely bass to play and feels incredibly comfortable with a lovely narrow neck too. In many respects, its quite difficult to believe that the pre-EB's are related to the post EB's as they are completely different beasts. [/quote] I agree with this because here is a list of bass parts that are not the same as a new Ray, some of which are nearer to a modern P bass than a new Stingray (especially before the Classic was released). Neck- Different profile/finish/and truss method. Body- Different with no contours. Pickup- Wound differently longer pole pieces. Preamp- Meant to be the same as the last MM one but I am not so sure and different to an earlier pre EB anyway. Bridge- Muted and strung through with more mass. Frets- Different gauge. Neck bolts 3 or 4 vs 6. Scratchplate has no notch for the truss wheel (cosmetic only) So what are we left with? Tuners. I fail to see how people can say they are the same other than the year they were built.

[quote name='Lynottfan' timestamp='1374427295' post='2148605'] I would go for a new classic and effectively have the best of both worlds, pre ebmm styling and bridge, a tad thinner neck, 2band eq but improved build quality, thats my humble..... [/quote] This is what I had to do to get what is in effect a 5 string pre EB Stingray, the Ray 5 should have looked like that in '87 anyway IMO, I have a Silohuette guitar (OLP copy I must admit) and my normal SR5s should really have been called Silohuette basses but I guess people knew the name Stingray and most probably still are not aware of the Silohuette at all?

I get what your saying Dingus, how or why makes little sense though unless the new 2 eq is different to the ones from the 80s up until the modern pcb ones went in?

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1374421554' post='2148519'] My 2010/11 whatever it is Musicman HH Stingray has the best 'single H' Musicman bass tone I've ever heard. It is EVERYTHING I craved with a Musicman, and more. 3EQ as well. Pete - I'm shocked you've had to go for a different pre.... My Musicman 5 HS has such a good tight low B its unreal...and for the price I paid a few years back I'm very happy. You could go all out and get a Bongo. It will blow your mind. [/quote] The 79 I had would blow away any new Ray I have tried, much more thump on the bottom end but with much more cutting bite on the treble pot if needed, the standard 2 band in my classic was as dull as dish water.