stingrayPete1977

No one else will know once it's painted

My ears need a bit of non Stingray training, I find it a bit weird sounding sometimes yet I got great comments from the audience on saturday just using a 1x12 and a little bit in a small pa.

I love it, real Fender and nicely built with a great B string, light weight, looks ace

No I think you can get it all in there, stacked knobs and the battery in the cavity so its just a matter of taking the control plate off once a year

It was a lack of volume that made me sell my bw equipped one years ago, traded up to an Ashdown evo rig, plenty of volume but not as nice tone wise. Handle on the top was hardcwork but never broke on mine

The stock ones sound ok to me, if anything I'd pop a john East preamp in instead Is there a reason why they cant wind a custom shop version for the 5 string?

They come as stock in new USA standard jazz basses but mine doesn't have them as the five string version doesn't get them

For all of these fancy cabs and class d fancy heads my two favourites for tone were most Peavey TNT combos or those Genz contour combos that were sold off cheap at the end. A black box that makes a noise suits me really, still I don't want to spoil a good argument

My new blanket ban on playing charity gigs is working nicely so far

The shop you bought it from

My usa jazz is fairly light too but I'd expect poplar to be fairly light but that is purely based on my previous experiences with poplar, as long as it sounds good I dont think it matters. 2 eq ftw too

133 series have poplar bodies

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1416815698' post='2613740'] I'll always try and find a UK based place that will price match. If I can't, then I use Thomann. [/quote] So do I, never happened yet though, the bdi21 I bought was £17 from thomann, cheapest here was an ebay seller £41 inc postage, I had a pair of small spot lights, some plectrums, paid the postage to thomann and had the lot within 4 days for £37!

Ah but look at it, you know you want it!

What I cant understand is why it is still so high, you can see how far the neck block thing is protruding yet that action is still quite high imo, with most basses if you did the same if anything you would be running out of saddle adjustment the opposite way yet that still looks like it could go down another few mm so what was it like from new without the block?! Filing the saddle slots right out or removing a load of metal off the underside would be my choice looking at them. My only word of caution regarding doing anything yourself would be that the neck screws might be too long with the block removed, we dont want a "oh no my fingerboard has cracked" thread!!!! Im not suggesting you are stupid, any of us could do it in haste screwing the neck back on.

Pre EB Stingrays are still my favourite basses, no doubt about it, you stay as you are brucew you chose well 33 years ago

Ebs freak sent a dep my way last week, all smiles and I know the guy and he is sound, I declined the offer, didn't even get a text back

If he had kept the blowtorch on it any longer it would definitely have been nothing but ash!

[quote name='88reaper88' timestamp='1416761322' post='2613275'] Depends how fat you are [/quote] I'm about 16 ohms then!

I guess its not so easy with the wall mounted transformers though is it?

I bought two small gu10 par can lights, £6 each and they included a euro to uk adaptor with each one. Everything I have ever bought has come with the screw on adaptors in fact.

Can we see the bridge from the side please? That shim is huge imo, if the saddles are that far off giving a low action without a shim the choice of bridge/depth of neck pocket route was wrong from the factory, its hardly the classic slither of cardboard required is it? I agree with Whitecloud about sinking the bridge in or option B would be to have an engineering shop mill a few mm off the back of the bridge if there is material to spare.

My Behringer BDi21 was £17, madness!

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1416697225' post='2612803'] At last, you've got it [/quote] Well when you look at it again, all mine are 5s that dont have the weak G string and my ClassicRay has a lacquered vintage tint finish, and its all in the fingers anyway so I will be back on the Rays soon My ears are tuned to a juicy humbucker tone and an active preamp after all these years I'd say.

[quote name='Pinball' timestamp='1416690599' post='2612735'] I agree, I'll swap you a Squire Jazz for one of your MM's. I don't actually have a Jazz at the moment but I'll nip out and buy one [/quote] I think normal stingray use will resume for at least some of the set from the next gig, I'm starting to miss the kick the Rays give!