Umskii Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) [font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"][color="#141414"].[/color][/font] Edited September 3, 2016 by Umskii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitzy73 Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) Did you try different strings. Edited July 29, 2016 by Fitzy73 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) Hmmm... I don't know, but the clips sound alright to me However, both rows of polepieces should feel the same. I'm surprised there's a difference because those are alnico pickups, meaning each polepiece is a magnet. If there was a magnet under each row I could understand maybe one magnet detached... but that can't happen here. I listened to the clips with FLAT and FLAT + BASS/TREBLE, and that sounds pretty much like I'd expect mine to sound like (mine is a 2EQ but the differences are not huge). I don't find that boomy at all. In fact, if you were going to remove low end I'd think it would sound tinny. Were the other Stingrays tested through the same amp/settings *at the same time* in the same location and also using similar strings? Or at different times? edit: I listened again, to all 4 clips now. I can't hear anything obviously wrong I'm afraid Edited July 29, 2016 by mcnach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 I think that any difference might be down to different strings and set-up, amplified by the distant memory that is 3 months I really don't hear anything 'wrong' with those clips. Maybe experiment with pickup height, or try other strings... we often ignore the effect strings have. I use stainless steel DR fat Beams on my Stingray and that's a great sound. A great sound that turns into a truly monster sound on my 2003 USA SUB, also a 2EQ, but in this case the pickup is wired in series... and boy that's punchy. It's like taking the other Stingray, turning bass and mids up a bit, and turning the volume up a bit too. Fat. All that 2EQ vs 3EQ talk... I don't know. I think you can get pretty much the same sounds (within a reasonable margin) from both, but the 2EQ lends itself to a slightly fat smooth and slightly scooped sound (probably because a lot of people just turn the controls up and play it like that )... The controls are pretty interactive in the 2EQ and you can get a very strong mid-rich tight-bottom type of sound like you could do on the 3EQ... they just have different controls so you get there differently. I only got a 2EQ because that's the one I came across in the right colour I actually didn't like the preamp too much and ended up installing a John East 3EQ which has a semi-parametric mids control, and I love that. The SUB I got as a backup, and they only made them as 2EQ. This one sounded different from my Stingray (a 2002 model, so not far from each other), and then I found that the pickup was wired in series, which made sense. It seems that the early USA SUBs were wired in series, and later ones in parallel as a Stingray. I owned a 2005 SUB briefly as well, and sounded just like the 2002 Stingray before the preamp swap... Aaaanyway, sorry I wrote a lot to say not much at all Briefly: I don't think there's anything *wrong* with your bass... but it can probably be made to sound a bit punchier and closer to what you remember with the right strings and setup. Unless the Stingray you compared to was wired in series in which case that's the reason for the monster sound But as far as I know the Stingray was always parallel-wired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twincam Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 (edited) What have you been playing in the 3 months in between?. Its amazing how another bass, amp or cab can alter our perception of what "bass" sounds like in a very short time. Like when I used a trace elliot combo for a few months everything sounded very different my basses sounded very different I got used to it then went back to an old amp I had for years I actually thought the amp had broken! It hadnt. Or if you used rounds for a long time then switch to flatwounds then go back to rounds and after a while and things can sound very different. Another answer is that even identical basses won't always sound the same. I've had a few p basses (many identical in year and colour even lol) and they all sounded a bit different. Despite me using the same string brand and always having a bass setup exactly the same. On some basses more than others setup differences can change the way a bass sounds not just pu height but the action will change the tone. Edited July 29, 2016 by Twincam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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