stingrayPete1977

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[quote name='Number6' timestamp='1416680190' post='2612622'] Just to cover all your bas(s)e's why not JazzRayPete1977 lol 😉 [/quote] I like that

Yep, Stingrays are unplayable junk, weak G strings, dirty raw unfinished maple necks, one trick pony and even then only a good trick if you are Bernard Edwards in the first place,

Little pub gig tonight, minimum kit required so eub instead of DB, 1x12 cab, only one mackie pa cab as a monitor, one led par light and no stands for anything. As I'm not taking a spare elec bass and my Jazz is still the new toy it will be 3 in a row, I took a Ray to the last two gigs as they were function band gigs with no upright bass but I didnt use them! New username time, JazzPete1977? lol

Vandross

Needs a tort plate IMO?

[quote name='Byo' timestamp='1416573828' post='2611590'] To be honest, the Skylines look better than the US models... [/quote] Those are the "14" models though remember, they are the same as normal USA models but in a limited range of colours and no options to keep the prices down, saves about five hundred quid on the 55 14 against the 55 94 which is the USA version of the 55 02, confused yet?!

I will be gigging mine tomorrow night as the venue is too small for the proper double bass, cracking for the money and great for gigging or practice.

Mine has a HMV bridge and is strung through the body, which suits my hamfisted playing

Peter Andre gig?

You could spend a couple of grand on a ClassicRay, slab body, 2 eq, sound familiar! Lol

The USA subs are really good and you wont find much improvement imo, the 3 EQ doesn't sound as nice as any version of the 2 EQ but and its a big but, the 3 EQ is much easier to get a good live sound with especially in a room that is notoriously awkward to get a bass to sit in the mix, the ceramic pickup usa Sterling or older Stingray 5 is even easier to get to cut through in any band setting. Worth it? Probably not, worth doing for the joys of a nice usa built bass for a couple of hundred quid more if you sell the SUB that you wont lose a penny on? Probably?

I had one for years as my main bass, they are cracking basses, now lets try and get my brain working....if memory serves me well looking at the bass as an on looker you have a master volume top right, the one to the left of that is a pan from the bridge to neck pickup with a notch for both on full in the centre, the bottom two are bass/treble cut and boost but I forget which is which. It's been a while so I could be lying but I think that is right, try putting the pickup selector one fully clock wise and fully anti clock wise then tap the pickups and see if one is on and of etc, likewise with that sorted try the volume to confirm that controls the lot, then play with the bass and treble knobs to work out what is going on.

Ah man did I miss a Ricky slagging session? Lol

I think it's easy to knock a player that is either covering lots of basses (a couple of puns there) or standing in on a gig. If I saw the same player a few times in a rock only band struggling then fair enough but I like many others cover a multitude of genres in one gig and I'm yet to see one player that really nails them all, myself included, rock and Indie is probably my strongest genre but we do reggae, ska, disco, Pop, soul etcetc, I'm sure some people would do a better job than me at the reggae but those same people might not be able to rock out so well.As long as the audience are happy I am too, there will always be a know it all, Paul McCartney's mates sister in law that will tell you what the band is doing wrong without us lot piling in IMO

Lol

It makes the nice ones worth hanging onto though

I do it as you say, D on the A string, B on the E string to A on E string and back to the D, typical rock riff exercise really. I think I use an up and down pick technique for the semi quavers down only for the quavers, play with a pick and plenty of bravado

[quote name='Telebass' timestamp='1416211748' post='2607868'] Why change it? It won't make the slightest difference. Other than visually, of course. [/quote] Is lateral saddle movement visual?

The di box is hardly a distortion pedal really, all it is doing is trying to bring a clean amp and jazz bass up to where someone using a valve amp and jazz bass is, it doesn't but it helps. Would you regard an ampeg to be sucking all that lovely tone from a P bass?

[quote name='fingerz' timestamp='1416176202' post='2607724'] A direct answer to your question is because the quality of both instruments is on par, hence the market has gone that way. [/quote] Good post, I'd agree with that.

I agree the list looks fairly similar to what I'd expect a shop's sales to look like, in fact I'd expect more Sandbergs if anything.

[quote name='cocco' timestamp='1416173235' post='2607666'] Well, my skyline Bob Glaub feels better than the current US fenders do IMHO. It's hard to argue with the hardware, hipshot ultralites and a really sturdy if slightly odd shaped bridge are standard fair. The fit and finish is second to none and if you get an older one you also get Lindy Fralin pickups. [/quote] Second to none? I went shopping last weekend, the £1050 DJ5 was nice but the wiring was trapped under the control plate.... [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_113751_zpsstzjpdwg.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_113751_zpsstzjpdwg.jpg[/IMG][/URL] The £2100 usa 55-14 had a very poor finish when inspected with a few flaws and sanding marks etc [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_114804_zps0auvdmks.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_114804_zps0auvdmks.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Which resulted with my cash going here, flawless finish and a great B string! All that said I'd still rather buy a Lakland blind than a Fender even a USA like mine, lol [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_171416_zpsprg4tqe4.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141101_171416_zpsprg4tqe4.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

I've got one this saturday £90 between 3 of us The pub in question isnt going to book and pay a £500+ band if we dont do it, I wouldn't do it with my 4 piece function band and I will be using a minimal kit, its a tiny pub full of mates and will mainly be for a laugh.

[quote name='GrammeFriday' timestamp='1416095354' post='2606938'] Having no gig and thus time on my hands this evening, and being a bit sad anyway, I've just decided to put this perception to an empirical test, by counting the number of basses for sale by different manufacturers in the first two pages of the 'Basses for Sale' thread as it appears on my computer screen. Results suggest that perceptions are a bit different from reality: Fender 26 Warwick 9 Music Man 8 Ibanez 6 Squier 4 Yamaha 4 Self build/Custom build Fender copy 3 Status 3 Aria 2 Fernandes 2 Fodera 2 Lakland 2 Ritter 2 Spector 2 Aquilinia 1 Alembic 1 Alleva Coppolo 1 Carvin 1 Celinder 1 Clover 1 De Gier 1 Dean 1 Epiphone 1 G&L 1 Gretsch 1 Harley Benton 1 Hofner 1 Hohner 1 Lag 1 Line 6 1 Manne 1 Modulus 1 NS 1 Overwater 1 Peavey 1 Sadowsky 1 Sandberg 1 Taylor 1 Washburn 1 Methinks "sucked in by the plethora of options and finishes and then they're pretty average basses that you want to move on within a few weeks of delivery" may be a better description of some other manufacturers in this list than it is of Sandberg! [/quote] You need to factor in the new sales to used sales surely? If PMT sell 28000 Fenders a year to 1000 Sandbergs then the for sale section shows the same factor of basses being sold on.