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[quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1329007446' post='1536080'] that's brilliant, seemed a great guy- I loved his last line in that! Interesting evolution on his Spector NS (WW streamer) design in terms of body shape. [/quote] Was about to say the same, but havent finished watching the vid.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' timestamp='1328869271' post='1533903'] I really don't like the styling of Barefaced cabs, they leave me cold. [/quote] Who gives a rats ass when it sounds amazing?

A jazz is a jazz. BTW I'm saving the pennies to have my stingray back! I don't like Jazzes full stop, regardless of the name on the headstock. Some other designs and the odd one or two with humbuckers rather than single coils have tickled me but it still isn't what I like. for me the EBMM sterling's single coil option is a better jazz bass alternative. If you want that bridge burpy kind of sound.

How does the satin finish feel? May be getting a new neck for my sterling from Shuker.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1328947538' post='1535099'] In the days before monitor mixes I used to split the bass and guitar stacks so the guitarist would have one of your 4x10's and you would have one of his 4x12's in your stack, That would enable you to hear each other. [/quote] some massive pubs in Somerset?

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1328874219' post='1534053'] I leave that kind of thing to the musicians. [/quote] I leave that to the egos

I've started asking for no bass in any of the monitors, the compact is on stage amd that provides all the monitoring me and the band need. If I get a wedge then I ask for vocal and guitar but usually I'm in a position to hear the guitar anyway. If I'm hearing drums from any other source than the kit then I'd screw. If it bothers you that much try IEM.

[quote name='pantherairsoft' timestamp='1328867040' post='1533828'] Good point - though at last nights gig everyone had fully stringed instruments!! Anytime mate, just say... Doors always open - though you have to bring your own biscuits if you're not coming with a pre!. [/quote] Say no more, what's your preference?

Hey shep! When bassist in nottingham are turning up to gigs with 3 out of the 4 strings on the bass I doubt that there are many out there who have equipment more complex than an ashdown electric blue. although the studio invite sounds appealing!!!

[quote name='silddx' timestamp='1328822772' post='1533396'] Funny innit. I'm the opposite. Give me a chord chart and I will become the most uncreative player you can imagine. Let me learn a song by ear and all sorts of ideas pop into my head and a nice bassline emerges, usually [/quote] Opposite again, I find chord chart extremely helpful and time saving, only when I see a chart I also see every single note I can play except the notes on the chart. [quote name='janmaat' timestamp='1328777863' post='1532395'] Find a drummer, build it up from the base - makes more sense. Be the band. [/quote] This definitly When my current originals goes tits up (inevitable due to 1/2 of us going uni) I'll be staying in contact with the drummer to build on a new act. He is the most down to earth guy I've ever met and actually listens to what I have to say.

[quote name='Fat Rich' timestamp='1328783504' post='1532489'] figure out what works best for you. [/quote] I think he has already done this. Although it should never stop you learning new things. I'm self tuaght, started with a pick and 3 years on I'm just as tight with my fingers as with a pick. Faster with my fingers is some cases, as I learned from [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/1177-mcgraham/"]mcgraham's[/url] stroking strings techinique to be faster when doing 16th's, which is extremely useful when in tune with double bass pedal useage.

Personally I prefer the Orange aswell like MM20. Mainly for it's simplicity, very plug and go and it breaks up the way I like. Unfortunatly it lacks the power unless you are running a few speakers.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1328646171' post='1530688'] To all the people who are complaining about the price of things: how happy would you be if I said - with no knowledge of what you do and what it entails - that I didn't think the work you do isn't worth the salary you receive? I'd wager you wouldn't be terribly happy with me. [/quote] You are right it would grind my gears. It does onm a daily basis, when folks think 55p is too much for a cup of tea. By all means, go to town and pay £3 parking for an hour, so then we can charge you £2.90 for the same cup of tea but in a different part of the city. Anyway I digress. You put it as though the question is rude, however if someone puts something on the market for critique with a certain price tag I expect them to be able to justify the price tag. Where I work I have to be able to answer all manner of questions that are about certain thing's price. We charge an extra 12p to butter a sandwhich. May seem outrageous, but the butter doesn't appear by magic for free, and it doesn't jump onto the bread either. Anyway on point, if I can get another bass that performs just as well if not better (all in my own opinion of course) for half the price, am I not allowed to ask politely where the difference goes, incase it may offend someone?

I think people gleem over the point of: Where the extra money goes? not if it's worth it or not. The answer for the high end stuff I don't have but if the geographics of higher wages etc is what one of them then that is a sucky reason.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1328621424' post='1530093'] If you didn't spank the plank so much, you'd have more time to try other basses. [/quote] That's where I've been going wrong all these years?

There is no choice. I have one bass. Everything else is subdefuge, and if you cant/wont gig it you have to ask yourself. What's the point. There are still a few basses I'd like to try but I know ill still be spanking the same plank eventually.

Stability mainly. The sterling has been the first bass I have been able to set up well, but the neck isn't stable and doesn't hold its adjustments very well. I walk nearly everywhere when there is rehearsals or gigs and so the bass undergoes lots of weather changes, and I'd rather not have to tweak the truss rod before souind check. As its still larlegly guess work. Also the "sound" isn't something I'm fussed about as its largley negligablezm juyst look up davidsins on youtube. He uses a ray with a status neck and without and it basically sounds the same. The looks and after trying a modulus funk unlimted just sealed the deal.

As some may know the neck on my sterling isn't erm has hard rock maple as it used to be, and as I can't just pickup a new one off the shelf I have to have a custom job done. Shuker wants my bass and I do not have a spare. And I want to try graphite(which is my only gas right now) Anyways I emailed Rob Green asking for a custom job and the chances etc. He emailed back saying that he is already working on one!! Very good for those of us with sterlings. Just thought I'd share the info!

How dissapointing! It seems like a steal. The cirrus preamp is a pretty good one. Can't even savage a neck from it as its 35" scale. Ones on ebay US for 325USD which is pennies for neck that's cardon fibre!

[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1328477160' post='1527857'] I found the neodymium magnets a lot more brilliant in sound than the ray. There was definate MM DNA but no ray growl. The bridge pickup is set closer to the bridge on a bongo, and the sustain from the neck isn't the same, the eq makes up for it but changes it slightly too. [/quote] I wouldn't say 'brilliant' I'd say more cleaner, compared to the passive esque distortion you get from the sterling's ceramic and the stingray's alnico. My sterling has a SD alnico in and a JE MMSR so it's essentially a stingray, and it definitly sounds it compared to a strandard sterling. The Big Al SSS has neodynium and that did do everything, I just wish it has alnico single coils. [quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1328475202' post='1527789'] Its close, but still Musicman DNA...lets face it, all Musicman basses sound like a Musicman no matter what the pups/EQ configuration. The bridge H sounds EXACTLY the same no matter what with a Stingray H, or HS, or HH...the extra pups don't make any difference. What they do is give you more tone and flexibility....which is not a bad thing considering the upcharge isn't much. [/quote] Agreed musicman sounds like a musicman (the difference is a lot clearer solo than in a mix compared with other musicman models and copies) However I was merely being simplistic in that if you was going to get a musicman it may aswell be a single H version, this is what they do best. I'm a one bass kind a guy and I find I can get every tone/sound out of my sterling with the single H, and a lot of others arn't(single bassers) so they would naturally have a Jazz or a precision (like you haha!!)aswell or something similar to do that. The rest is merely subderfuge. If I really had to make a choice on a bass it would be a sterling, it does the stingray sound easily in a mix and the (better IMO) jazz single coil back pickup sound (useful for a RATM covers band, which I want to do haha) it also wieghs less. The best 5 stringers Musicman have done are the Stingray classic 5 and the SUB 5. Purely from a stingray design point of view the Stingray 5H has never really been a stingray, always some kind of sterling/silhouette hybrid. Anyway, it's not been said but you should really go out and try them, even if it's just a 4 string model, it'll sound the same as the 5 string versions. That way you'll know what sounds best for you.

Switches and knobs do different things depending on the Pickup config as well as bass. Between the 3 basses the of the 5 string version the stingray 5 for me is the best, in particulaly the single H. HS and HH gives you the jazz and P sort of sounds but if you wanted those you'd get a P or a jazz right???