dub_junkie

The C5 Deluxe has the MarkBass preamp. Pickups are the usual offshore Bartolini Mk1s

I love my C5 Deluxe. I got the candy blue one after watching Dood's review on it. fwiw I've always liked Cort basses and have ordered a number unseen (mainly GB75,90F and 95s) and always been happy with them. I set up to my own taste and I'm happy to do that. The neck on the C5 Deluxe is fairly modern in profile and flattens out on the back of the neck the further you go up. Re the candy blue (if thats the finish youre looking at) no picture or video ever has caught this finish properly. There is what appears to me to be a slight green element to it that's never picked up and the colour is way,way nicer in person.

Met with Paddy at Carlisle for the umpteenth time this year and traded my Mayones Jazz bass for Paddy's Overwater. Absolutely delighted with the OW and Paddy happy with getting his Jabba back again. Thanks again Paddy!

Musicman Stingray 5 always seems to have a great sounding B string from my experience owning them. My USA Std Jazz 5 from about 20 years ago had a fair to average sounding B as did a couple of their MiM jazz basses from that same era. I owned a few USA Dimension Elite and Std 5 strings and the B was better but not quite as defined as an SR5. The L-2500 I owned also fell short of the StingRay 5. Lakland 5s are imo a good choice for a good sounding B. I've owned a 55-60,a 55-AJ and a 55-02 which I still have, and they've all been great in this respect. They're 35" scale length but dont feel any bigger to me than a SR5. And like fretmeister said, I do find it a bit annoying that I have to generally buy a 0.045 set to get a .130 B string. I prefer 0.040 on the top but something with a bit more meat on it than a .125 for the B 🤨

Congrats! This was my old bass judging by the serial number. I had it and a 2023 Raspberry burst at the same time. Great basses!

Not till this Sunday when I pick it up but just got the pics from Alan of my newly built RSK 5/35 and the weekend now can't come quick enough!!

There's your answer! The Stingray 5 is such a great five string imo. You cant go wrong with one. (My 1994 blueburst is not for sale and posted for purely the purpose of inducing GAS)

The Bongos had full sized tuners for the first 20 years in production. Not sure why it's a weird look as it was the only look all that time.

Very close to mine which i picked up off here a number of months ago. Beautiful bass, I hope it serves you well 🙂

I had a 133 series StingRay about 15 years ago. Bought it new for £999 from Nevada music iirc. The choices were Black, Candy Apple Red and Pearl Blue. I got black with rosewood. They were advertised at the time as these three colours only but with the choice of a maple or rosewood fretboard. As said before they were all 2EQ and came with a gig bag. The '133 series' reference never came into the conversation until discussion on the EBMM forum used this nomenclature on account of it being part of the build number