stingrayPete1977

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!

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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?