stingrayPete1977

I've got the matching blue sparkle to that but with a maple fingerboard, it's also a later version with the Alnico pickup. I've got a black and white one with a ceramic pickup that was fretless. A stingray classic five. And a six string jobbie. free screenshot

That teal one is lovely, great neck too.

Our lady singer vetoed 'brown sugar', we decided that there are enough songs to cover without forcing any band member to play anything they don't want to.

My Shuttlemax and matching 4 ohm cab rarely gets used, 1x12 and a Shuttle 6.0 does most of my gigs, I let the pa do the heavy lifting.

If you take into account that variations are available from less than £100 ranging upto many thousands then surely there are always going to be basses for sale at every price point as people sell their old ones to buy more expensive versions?

With the 12.2 you could run two of those together which even with the reduced wattage to 600 per cab the total 1200 Watts through twice as many speakers would be epic compared to a single cab being driven off the 900 head or even an equivalent 1200 watt amp. What we really wanted was an 18.2 with two of the 900 watt power stages, 1800 Watts into two 4 ohm 8x10s, that would get the pub rocking!

As I put in another thread recently, you don't have to have the 80s style five string, this is mine.

That's like anything, if you don't need it then the 'extra' isn't actually a bonus is it. A 12.2 running a pair of 4 ohm 4x10s would out do the 9.2 running a 4 ohm 8x10, I imagine that's the market its aimed at?

I think the 12.2 running two noexT 2x12 cabs would be fairly massive. I've got a 3.0, a 6.0 and a 9.2 Shuttle max, the 600 is plenty to be fair when used with a four ohm cab. I've even used the 3.0 with the big cab and it's enough for any gig really.

How many 1200watt 4 ohm cabs are on the market? You can have two 4 ohm cabs and use just one at 600watt or use two for bigger gigs. Genz made 600watt 4 ohm cabs at the time remember.

^ I don't think that has 2 MM pickups?

I've never understood the "not versatile" thing, there must be an example of one being used in every genre of music to good affect. I think there are players that have a fixed way of playing that are used to being able to adjust from front to back pickup along with the tone or EQ controls to get a variety of sounds, imo it's the player that lacks the versatility not the bass.

You can run either a pair of 4 ohm cabs at the full 1200watts, say two genz 2x12 or four 8ohm 4x10s all at full tilt, did someone mention heft?

It's only a good tone of it's one you like.

Put crap in and you'll get crap out, put clean in and it can be made decent. I use my built in di but on pre EQ.

That looks fantastic, they really are a proper upright imo.

Yeah the pearloid looks OK there against the dark board rather than maple, but then it commits the crime of having rear routed pots but a scratch plate with no control plate! That said one of the best basses I ever played was the same, an Xotic jazz.

A lot of these copies are made in factories where the people making them have probably never seen a real one, they can't help but build them to a better standard which gives the game away! 😁

I like tort on black but not with the pearloid blocks I'm afraid.

Rainbow Rolex like the sultan of Brunei?

The tolex will probably fall off fairly soon anyway

We're not putting anything on the net in case he uses it in his defence, if it's where I expect it will be then it will be a fair distance from you.

If would make a good news story if loads of us turned up outside the courts, not far from me either, lol.

I know we are keeping the details quiet for now but do we know roughly when he'll be in court yet?

AFAIK there's no rule to say you can't have both a custom built and a mass produced bass at the same time anyway, I could enjoy both! There are plenty of examples of high profile players far better than me using off the hook Rays in all genres of music, time spent lusting over custom build basses would be better spent practicing for me.