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Yes, there's something too compact about a series tone to impersonate that loose guttural P sound

Is this one tuned to Drop D too?

Interregnum could work, too

Would they have to call it the Vintera Performer? 🤯

.....which then equivalates to how the manufacturers of the 1024 and the 2024 use their tools. Degrees of quality are everywhere. The reason I gave two performances of the same specs was because I was appealing to your understanding as a musician that the same thing can be done to two do levels of quality, in the hope that you would be able to see that the Katherine Jenkins in the large Indonesian factory will not be producing the same quality of work as the Maria Callas in the small Japanese factory. As a matter of interest, when you played a 2025, was it after you had bought and got to know your 1025? I can appreciate that once you've grown to know something, the qualities of something similar become harder to care about.

It's not that they've different vocal chords – to make that point, I would have posted Callas and Joyce DiDonato – the point is that Callas is operating to much tighter tolerances than KJ: the notes are clearly articulated, not just smudged over; the tone is naturally resonating, not something artificially plumped up by the sound guy. So as a comparison it's very much to the point: exactly the same music, delivered at different price points.

Yes, just as I could tell the difference between the Yamaha grand pianos at college and the Bechstein I grew up practising on

As a musician, are you genuinely impervious to the idea that two people can execute the same musical instructions and yet produce performances of differing quality?

Versatility is wasted on me – presumably thanks to being brought up on acoustic instruments, once I've found how to make the one noise I like best, I stop there and forget about the controls. I had a bass with two pickups and 3-band EQ, and it got no more fiddling with than my P. Were I to get a Stingray, it would be to find that sound that I like so much, and make it. Looking through out-of-date adverts left online by helpful retailers, it does seem that not so long ago there did exist a Stingray with • alnico pickup ✔ •2-band EQ ✔ • contoured body ✔ • 1 5/8" nut ✔ .....which gives me something to think about.....

Apologies to people who dislike old threads being resurrected, but this thread came up when I was searching around for a couple of answers, trying to get my head around the Stingrays evolution Firstly, was there a time when the trad 2-band EQ and alnico pickup was paired with a contoured body? Secondly.... Watching an Ed F demo of a Classic* I realised that the Stringray sound which makes me 🥰 comes at Treble 7, Bass 10; is the Special, with its NeoThingy pickup and 3-band EQ, capable of impersonating that specific sound? Thirdly, since I'm on a roll, did the Special nut start off at 1 5/8" and then change to 1 11/16"? (or have I been reading a mistaken listing?) *3'12" to 3'38":

I found this little video entertaining - the guy uses his L-2000 to try to impersonate his P, J and Stingray

This story has been too much of an emotional rollercoaster for me

And on this YouTube bass cover, your point is amply demonstrated

That made me think of Bananarama's Venus, and this is not a complaint

The Tributes all have the G&L designed bridges – are they from the same supplier as the USA models? The MFD pickups on the Tribute L-2000 and SB-2 are the same as the USA models, but the alnico pickups on the LB and JB models are not.

Would you want to be in middle of two drummers playing exactly the same part, or were you thinking of a lead drummer / rhythm drummer thing? Or imagining the two drummers passing the baton back and forth?

The couple of YouTube demos are pretty poor sound quality, I don't know if anything could be judged from them. But there are a couple.

Isn't the word you're looking for spelt t-w-o?

Looks great, sounds great

Who makes pickups like these? I know I've seen that principle being used for the Old Smoothie. Where else? Edit: D'OH just use a 5 string pickup you foooool

I recognised it as the name of a rather boring Led Zeppelin song.

This video gives the impression that the two mini switches are separate series/single/parallel controls for the two pickups.

£500 for a Chinese made bass sold online out of Indonesia .... quite expensive given how little peace of mind comes with the deal.