stingrayPete1977

You've got to take whatever you can get these days!

Casapete beat me to it ^

He had many guitars but called them all Lucille rather than just one guitar for his career.

I did it once twenty years ago, trod on my lead and pulled it out, even at rehearsal I'd take it round the strap now.

Flea has used a black Stingray five for 27+ years, but only in the studio.

We mustn't use terms like "battery neutral" on here, you'll have TimR all over it!!!!

Adam Clayton managed two gigs in a row once without a new signature model for the third gig, does that count?

No but almost all basses with a battery inside use the jack socket as a switch to turn the circuits off. It's just a stereo socket instead of a mono one in the bass and the male end shorts the spare contact to the ground. BBBBzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

Didn't work on mine, even says so in the link you posted, well "active pickups". Made a right noise even worse than the noise I usually make!

I nearly bought one of these until I tried the guitarists and found out it didn't work on an active bass!

I started out on a Stingray after the Warwick I went to buy from sound control in Birmingham was faulty! I had cash in my pocket to burn and that was it. Nearly 20 years later and they are still my go to bass albeit with a jazz along side and they've all gained a B string these days. I've never got the one trick pony thing, I think that applies to one trick players.

I think that depends partly on the audience and partly on the band, a good pub band in a good pub where the punters know the band and appreciate live music will be better than a poor tribute act playing a venue that isn't bothered ie a works doo to a seated audience or similar. And visa versa obviously.

Have you ever been to Bilston? 🤔

Honestly I haven't, I think I changed the strings and batteries on all my basses this time last year. I need to do the same again now so that'll be around £150 although I might not do a couple of them as they still feel OK and I've probably got one set of strings at least in the drawer so potentially only one set to buy and four 9v batteries. However we are thinking about in ears......

The only thing I'd add is that you should ring ahead imo, I've seen people on here slag them off after arriving out the blue to be stood around as other people were trying stuff out, which is fine but you can't expect a small shop demoing expensive stuff to customers that have effectively made an appointment to be snubbed when you walk in imo. They'll also confirm what you want is in stock and have it ready for you too, so either call ahead or be patient that's all I'm saying.

How much stuff do we all need? I doubt I'll buy any more bass specific gear ever again, I haven't for quite a while not even strings!

Ha, serves you right🤣

I've got a 20% discount card for M&S!, will they stock musicman products I wonder......

Lionel Richie?

I like some of Charlotte Hatherly's stuff after she left Ash.

I've just seen it, I spotted the Ernie Ball Classic Stingray instead of a proper pre EB straight away. Same for the Fender Custom shop logo on the rear of the bass head stock at the Live Aid concert. Nerdy.

I don't think there are that many StingrayClassics with five strings in the UK and mine is Tobacco burst which was only available from the first run in 2010, I've never seen another.

I was half expecting you to say that! It will take some messing around with the EQ to get it right but once you do I find they cut through better than most basses. Amp set as flat as possible, boost the bass a bit, middle about centre and treble boosted a tiny bit for finger style and cut a bit for pick for me.

Same here, we bought the 735s with a view of adding maybe a single sub but we haven't needed to and we put everything through the pa including the bass and kick drum. Coupled to an xair mixer and two powered monitors we've got a compact system that will blow an old fashioned system out the water not just for volume but quality of sound out front, I haven't heard vocals as clear from any PA!

The 735 and 745 are a totally different animal, the vocals barely gets anywhere near the main driver like the smaller models and typical cabs like Mackies.