stingrayPete1977

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1416167113' post='2607562'] All of that lovely tone sucked away by the Behringer pedal! [/quote] unless I had a big valve head I just find the passive jazz a bit empty, maybe if there was a second guitarist it would be ok but it needs something to fill it out a bit imo

Id take Claytons job and be happy to put up with us lot saying how bad I am Its one of only a handful of gigs I'd wager I could actually manage too

Existing warranty work is still covered I beleive if you buy new old stock?

You can't accept the hate or you don't want to accept it?

Used in anger last night, all going well until about 18 songs in, I start James Sit Down, two bars in silence! The bdi21 has fallen off the top of the amp and come unplugged making the preamp go open circuit velcro required

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1415909933' post='2605222'] Charge something at least, let them pay more if they want to. i've had a hundred or so download my music, most paid, but when I counted there were 20 odd who hadn't. it got really annoying when people downloaded it for nothing. Why should we give music away for free ? It really annoys me this culture that's grown up about wanting music for nothing, we're partly to blame for giving it away for free in the first place. People will pay £3 for a cup of coffee or a supermarket sandwich, but object to buying music ? [/quote] This coffee analogy doesn't work though, if star bucks are comparable with a band like kings of Leon then your little coffee brand is no more than a cart in the street so no matter how Nice your coffee is unless you can get a few people to taste it those £3s are going to keep heading to star bucks. As musicians we make out that we are the only ones having to do this,I can't think of a business that hadn't had to sell them selves short initially to get a foot on the door.

more leds for the win unless they are on the bass

[quote name='paul_5' timestamp='1415986766' post='2605900'] yup, you'll end up melting your shoes and tanning your feet if you're not careful... [/quote] TBH most of them are off most of the time, I was pimping it for effect, lol

The Behringer BDi21? Its actually plugged in with a double ended 9v lead to the output from the TC polytune which handily has in and out, that gets its 9v from the plug in transformer and a lead with 5 ends in a daisy chain. Adaptor in mains outlet - Behringer AB100 pedal - Fishman pro eq - TC polytune - Behringer Bdi21

Oh yes one massive knob controls the whole operation I'm afraid

It's got loads of stuff on the back too, very well equipped you could say! It's two amps in one box and a set of master controls too though, to do that any other way would be even more knob happy

Bloody upright basses eh Les :F I'm not a big drinker Norris but I will still get it all in a mix up anyway!

Funky!

Its the future wrapped up in a design hundreds of years old!

I have ended up with this! [URL=http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141113_215636_zpsmmhtlanx.jpg.html][IMG]http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/af100/stingraypete/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141113_215636_zpsmmhtlanx.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Set up with my practice 1x10 cab to test my theory..... Genz Benz Shuttlemax 9.2 head that has 2 channels with an FX loop for each plus a global FX loop and EQ. Behringer BDi21 in/out of the Genz rear panel valve channel FX loop to warm up the Passive [b]Jazz bass [/b]into the valve channel, select the AB pedal to line 2 for electric bass then select the valve channel on the head using the Genz Benz foot switch. Same lead and AB line 2 but switch to fairly flat set EQ FET channel on the Genz head when using a [b]Stingray [/b]so no BDi21 unless you blend the two channels using the foot controller. Then when I swap to [b]Double Bass [/b]I switch the AB pedal to line 1 which is the other lead (maybe a wireless at a later date stuck to the rear of the finger board) and that brings in the Fishman Platinum Pro EQ to shape the tone and help with feedback, I must remember to select the clean FET channel on the head using the foot controller or I will end up with the valve and BDi21 when using upright bass! Lol, easy right? what can go wrong?

Sorry, I did not word that very well, I mean what do the knobs do on it regarding pickup selection, treble, bass etc passive or active and what not?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1414944749' post='2594912'] My first Jazz porn thread picture 2013 (bought new yesterday) USA Standard Jazz V Tobacco burst, RW and torty. [url="http://s997.photobucket.com/user/stingraypete/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-11/20141102_103353_zpswmsts8sj.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] [quote name='Old Horse Murphy' timestamp='1415570488' post='2601629'] I've always had a love/ hate thing with Jazzes but seem to have one hanging around. Here's my latest. It's a mint condition American New Series Jazz and it's lovely [url="http://s945.photobucket.com/user/nwmurphy/media/imagejpg1-19.jpg.html"][/url] [/quote] Twins! other than the B string obviously

The neck was nice on the one I tried, not sure about the maple and blocks on the black ones though, anyway who said anything about need!? My 2007 SR5 realistically does everything I will ever need, there are far superior players out there that use nothing else but that does not stop me buying more basses

[quote name='MikanHannille' timestamp='1415865379' post='2604523'] I've been waiting for years to get a hold of this beauty. Finally pulled the trigger last week. Second hand from Ishibashi. Atelier Z M265 Plus custom white with her older sister Fender 70's RI [url="http://s37.photobucket.com/user/hessler312/media/1544321_994612453897718_4329915932997752484_n_zps6012bed9.jpg.html"][/url] Will post more photos of both later after work! [/quote] What does what then regarding switching/tone etc?

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1415899491' post='2605064'] Don't Musicman use a different style of truss rod to Fender too? I think MM have a straight rod made from two parallel pieces while Fender have a single curved rod. I wouldn't like to say that one is superior to the other, but there could be a difference in rigidity between the two. [/quote] Fender USA Standard and Deluxe do have the graphite rods though so I dont know, stupid truss adjuster is rubbish on the Fenders, MM system is brilliant!

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1415882802' post='2604777'] I've never found that adding a single inch to the speaking length of the string (less than 3% of the length) makes any useful difference. Fine if you like the feel of the extra space between the frets, but as a solution to a less than adequate low B, IME string choice and overall neck and neck joint construction are far more important. [/quote] I have been looking at my Stingray necks compared to my Fender neck and I can see an improvement Musicman have made that could be part of the "Stingray, has a killer B on it" "Flappy Fender V B string" from the same scale and bolt on construction that look fairly similar to most eyes, well the neck on a stingray 5 is thicker on the heel than a Fender 5, it would involve a lot more wasted wood to do that but it would make for a stronger neck join and less able to bend? 22mm of neck and 28mm of body on a Standard USA Fender Jazz V and with a small 4 bolt plate. 26mm of neck and 25mm of body on a USA EBMM Stingray5 which also has a much larger neck plate and 6 screws The 3mm lost pocket thickness makes more sense regarding construction as the body is not going to bend is it? and a 4mm gain in the most vulnerable not reinforced area is quite a bit IMO?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1415881569' post='2604758'] With something as generic as a 5-string J bass there shouldn't be any need to mod one. There's so many different makes that it ought to be simply finding the one that ticks all the boxes as standard. [/quote] I know I am taking a bite from your anti Fender poisoned apple but we all know that is not how it works, you could say with something as generic as a five string bass guitar you should not need to mod one, a couple of chrome dildos for horns does not really do that much to a bass to make it that much different than any other fully functioning bass guitar from a playing POV IMO I really like some of the features of the deluxe but overall I liked the Standard hence the purchase, now if they had made a passive deluxe with all the bits I liked on the deluxe but with the passive pickups and controls I would have bought that, I suppose the DJ5 is closest to that but then that is not a Fender which I think I wanted plus the smaller body I am no so sure of? pros and cons to all of them BRX

You can't even get a USA standard five for a grand jtuk mine was nearly £1400, another couple of ton for the deluxe which is into used boutique money isn't it?

By which time Leo had started G&L too....

Nah the deluxe sucked! Weedy preamp, naff in passive mode