stingrayPete1977

[quote name='Salt on your Bass?' timestamp='1354540395' post='1887083'] I hope you're plannign on acquiring enough cabs to hook that lot up to! [/quote] 3.0 has a 1x10 it lives with 6.0 has a 1x12 it lives with 9.2 has a 2x12 it lives with Only the 1x10 is not Genz Benz but I think it would be too fan boy to swap it?

If ebmm starting doing full gloss necks I would be the first person not to buy one, I imagine musician 20 would be close behind me and he buys enough for that to close the company down! The finish of the board and the quality of the timber will need to be spot on to only oil it and it will still be hand buffed after anyway, try oiling a piece of timber you think is smooth and I bet it will come up as rough as feck after.

A dab of super glue will do fine plus it's clear, as a classic car tinkerer I can tell you many proper loctites are blue and will make a mess, even hard to wipe of chrome parts as it has an oily film to it until set.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1354539428' post='1887070'] Yes, but if taking a neck off and replacing it changes the sound just as much as taking a neck off and putting a different one on then your test is 100% pointless. Unless you have a baseline for your test then you can't make a comparison. [/quote]see my last post

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1354537144' post='1887029'] Yes, but since the point of the video is to show us the supposed difference between the two fingerboard woods how do we know that the audio hasn't been tweaked somewhere in the production process? [/quote] We don't so it's best to ignore the whole thing and choose the bass you like the look and feel of best

[quote name='mattbass6' timestamp='1354536525' post='1887011'] Hi StingrayPete1977 and Musicman20. Thank you so much for that comprehensive breakdown, I really do appreciate it. I am looking for more of that attack / bite and it seems that the Sterling may be the way to go therefore. The string spacing is quite important to me and 17.5mm is the minimum I would use so, all good there. I think the obvious thing to do is go and try some but finding them around Cardiff is harder than you think. I've seen so many great examples here on BC and other sites. Is there a particular era of MM to avoid and of course, one era that is better in your opinion. Thanks again, a huge help [/quote] Nothing to avoid but like I said if you can find a second hand one, pre 07 it will have the ceramic pickup that gives the same bite as the sterling so you can have your cake and eat it if you find that you like the Stingray more to look at or play but prefer the sound of the Sterling. Also if it's being sold as new make sure it is unless there is a big discount off it, you don't want to settle for a new alnico model only to find it's been hanging in the shop for 5 years! Easiest way to tell is the battery box up by the horn and the switch is horizontal when playing not sloping down, there are a few hybrids like mine that fall between the two with the new bits and old pickup though probably 05-07 era

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1354536149' post='1887003'] Even the former isn't necessarily very rigorous science. Does taking a neck off, then putting it straight back on again make it sound different? Does replacing one neck with a nominally identical one make a difference? [/quote] No buts it's 90% more of a fair test, same body wood, same pickup windings, same bridge settings, same strings, same tone controls etc.

Have not watched the clip but did they swap the necks over onto the same body and everything that goes with it or just compare two basses with different boards? Means nothing if its the latter as far as science is concerned Even if you swapped necks the neck woods could have different grains etc that alter the sound anyway, Allevas have a dildo headstock for tone and if you beleive that then what differences could two identicle necks have regardless of the board?

The 3.0 is brilliant! Runs everything exactly like your 6.0, 300watt at 4 ohms (only one speakon though so you will need to slave one cab to the other), I have used it with the 2x12 and its not that different to the 6.0 really as far as power is concerned, certainly wasnt at its limit anyway. Also for home use its great as it normally lives on its own with the 1x10 in the picture for either quiet practice or acoustic jams (proper acoustic jams with no pa at all) as it has no fan unlike all other Genz heads it makes no noise at all, cracking little spare head. Pictures of your 6.0 in situ just for porns sake are always good anyway.

Here are my three little beasts [IMG]http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag21/stingrayPete1977/genzpile.jpg[/IMG] I also have a Neox 2x12T and a Neox 1x12T which I will add pics of later. So come on then lets have a look, and set up at the gig pictures always welcome!

For me they really overlap, I have a 2007 Ray 5 which is the very last of the ceramic pickup Ray 5s before they went back to Alnico like the very early ones, its got all of the latest updates other than the pickup ie striaght selector knob, battery box up near the horn rather than towards the bridge,new ramp style pickup cover and would of had the new compensated nut but I have a 2004 fretted neck on it as it was a fretless when new! I also have a 2010 Ray which I bought new that has the all the latest spec including the Alnico pickup which in paralel mode (again just having a switch on the 5s and not the 4s makes them a bit more sterling like) gives you the obvious Stingray sound that the ceramic ones lacked. So sound wise It will depend on what year you go for but the pre 2007 ones will sound more like each other than ones made later due to the shared ceramic pickup, im not sure what the sterling preamp is like or if its different at all? Body wise Sterlings are a bit smaller/lighter and on four string models the nut width is more Jazz where a Ray is more P but again with the extra girth of a 5 thats less obvious so they blur together again using what looks like the same neck! So in the 4 string world they are totally different, in the 5 string world the body is a different shape! Stingray 5 specs [url="http://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/stingray-5.html"]http://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/stingray-5.html[/url] Sterling 5 specs [url="http://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/sterling-5.html"]http://www.music-man.com/instruments/basses/sterling-5.html[/url]

Finally got round to working out how to upload pictures from my new photobucket!

[quote name='Walker' timestamp='1354486624' post='1886635'] Ah. We play folkabilly popgrass. With flatwounds. Does that make a difference ? [/quote] Is it progressive popgrass or regular popgrass?, does anyone in the band have dreadlocks?, as they really mess up the response of the xmax doogle filter ratings.

Im not arsed what the neck finish is as I always run 1200 grit paper over it end to end anyway, you can easily bring back even a gloss painted neck with t cut if you were to sell it on, my '79 Ray I did with wire wool as the finish has been mostly worn off anyway, its lovely now!

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1354522278' post='1886816'] The only time I check the action is when I buy a bass, unless I take it to a luthier to be set up. From then on I adjust the truss rod in Spring/Autumn, if the weather dictates it`s needed, and that`s all. [/quote] +1 If the bridge is good its going to be the neck that has moved not the saddles, I think this is the root of a lot of crap basses where people try to lower the saddles to get over the over bowed neck. Obviously if I have swapped to a new gauge of strings then it has to be done then too but I have only gone from 40's to 45's in 20+ years!

Depends if you use a bass with maple or rosewood fingerboard!

I think I could manage playing with it held like an upright, enough to keep going to practice and go over the simple songs but the cast is under my palm so I cant really get a neck between it and my fingers what you done to your leg?

Only joking, would be if the missus had said yes, I did ask and pointed out that I will tell her I told you so in a few years!

You don't need legs to play bass! Lol

It's on my wall

[quote name='MiltyG565' timestamp='1354461991' post='1886175'] Yes, that helps immensely, thank you How is the wrist these days? [/quote] No problem I tried to keep it simple before the boffins get here to amaze you with their knowledge! Had my operation and the cast comes off 2 weeks on Monday, it's already quite stiff so I will need physio

I don't see the op as a vs argument thread, just that he wanted to understand the terms used. I'm sure they are in the pinned thread but anything containing vs is normally just a which bass is best for metal, do I need to read and why do people use five string basses if billy Sheehan doesn't thread!

Fwiw I'm not suggesting screwfix! We have Corronhursts who do everything including anodized hex heads etc for the fancier build project.

Has Leona Lewis got a personality? I thought it was locked away in a tin somewhere with Andy Murray's?

At the end of the day most televisions I have seen have an off switch