What's the difference

[tom1946]

Between a stingray and a sterling please? they look the same visually.

Thanks.

[Clarky]

[quote name='tom1946' post='783780' date='Mar 23 2010, 06:28 PM']Between a stingray and a sterling please? they look the same visually.

Thanks.[/quote]
Dunno about electrics but as I understood it a Stingray has a P bass type neck while a Sterling has a Jazz type slim neck

[mike257]

The Sterling has a smaller body, and very different electrics from the Stingray. Somebody better informed will be along shortly to clarify how different, give it a minute or two!

[tom1946]

[quote name='mike257' post='783782' date='Mar 23 2010, 06:29 PM']The Sterling has a smaller body, and very different electrics from the Stingray. Somebody better informed will be along shortly to clarify how different, give it a minute or two![/quote]


Thanks guys.

Gotta love this forum ^_^

[hellothere]

[quote name='tom1946' post='783791' date='Mar 23 2010, 06:34 PM']Thanks guys.

Gotta love this forum ^_^[/quote]

yeah it is one of the few forums where you get given fact and opinion rather than opinion passed off as fact. Also people actually try to have reasonable discussions rather than just telling people they are wrong

[Spike Vincent]

Sterling has a smaller body than the Stingray,1" narrower and 1" shorter,the Stingray has 21 frets as opposed to the Sterlings 22,and the neck on the Sterling is 1/8" narrower at the nut.

[warwickhunt]

Neck is slimmer
Body is smaller
Switch for series/parallel on Sterling
Dummy coil in the Sterling pup
IRC they also have different preamps
... so that's virtually everything!

[Mog]

[quote name='hellothere' post='783809' date='Mar 23 2010, 06:49 PM']yeah it is one of the few forums where you get given fact and opinion rather than opinion passed off as fact. Also people actually try to have reasonable discussions rather than just telling people they are wrong [/quote]

NO ITS NOT. Its not like that around here at all. I know this because a bass playing pygmy elephant called Rodney told me so and in my opinion he's being factual, so there! End of discission.























Oh yea, and what Warwickhunt said.

Edited March 23, 2010 by Mog

[Delberthot]

Don't Stingrays use Alnico poles and Sterlings use Ceramic? and the switching thing as well

anyone with a stingray 5 string more than a few years old actually has a Sterling as it has ceramic poles and the same electronics.

[cameltoe]

I thought the Sterlings were made in the Far East whereas the Stingrays were USA built? Or is this so obvious it's been taken as a given?

[XB26354]

The MusicMan Sterling is made in the USA.
The Sterling branded basses are made in the far east.