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Sterling Stingray SS4 Short-scale Bass Olympic White & Gig Bag - *SOLD*
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Sterling By Musicman StingRay Short-scale SS4 Bass in Olympic White 

 

The bass is in excellent condition, barely a mark on it and plays and sounds great. I bought this to help my recovery process by using a short-scale bass before moving to a long scale following surgery on my fretting hand. This is now surplus to requirements as I am using my Sterling US bass now - which you can see in the pics for comparison.
The Shorty comes in Olympic white and has a nice new Fender gig bag with it. 

They retail at around £600-£749 online and are definitely a step up from the Sterling SUB series. I also owned a US Musicman StingRay SS and this compares very favourably. Check out Lowend Lobster’s review on YouTube too.

I can post in the UK only for an extra £18.

No trades sorry just want to get some money back. Pickup and chat welcome too.

It weighs 3.8kgs by the way. 

Blurb from Sterling -

 

Body: Mahogany

Neck: Maple

Neck attachment: Bolt-on

Fretboard: Rosewood

Inlays: White Dots

22 Medium frets

Nut width: 38 mm (1.5")

Scale length: 762 mm (30")

Fretboard radius: 240 mm (9.45")

Pickguard: Parchment

Pickup: Music Man Designed 

Neodymium Humbucker (bridge)

Electronics: Passive

Controls: Volume (Push / Push),     

Tone, Rotary (parallel, true single-

coil, Series)

Bridge: Music Man Designed

Hardware finish: Chrome

Colour: Olympic White

Original Strings: Ernie Ball 2852

Regular Slinky Short Scale Bass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I've just bought one of these and as a former owner of both USA Stingrays and Sterlings, they really do punch above their weight and get a very good 'Musicman' tone despite being passive!  If you want that MM tone but in SS, do yourself a favour and buy this.  :)

 

I was seriously tempted to go for the full fat USA short scale but after trying this out, I'm not going to shell out x4 as much cash.  :/  Not saying a USA wouldn't be better but not 'that' much better.  

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31 minutes ago, dodgnofski said:

Is there any sign of the dreaded ‘neck dive’ on this please?

None at all, although it’s a light bass the body is quite dense and of course the tuner placement helps too. 

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