pineweasel

Murphy’s Oil Soap is the stuff Music Man recommend. See their FAQ https://www.music-man.com/faq

These look great and make me wish I was in the market for a Jazz. I especially like the lollipop tuners.  It’s a good time to be a lefty Fender fan. 

The current owners of the Hoyer brand have a history of the marque https://www.hoyerguitars.com/about/#h

19 minutes ago, Jack said:

There was a Stingray 4, that led to five string Stingray

Although the design of the Stingray 5 was based on the Silhouette guitar, so it looks nothing like the Stingray 4. Years later they made a 5 string based on the Stingray 4, which they called the Classic Stingray 5. 

It’s the crossover frequency, so the lower the setting, the more HF signal goes to the tweeter

What about finding a used Sterling Ray34 and having it defretted?

On 20/11/2023 at 09:59, thisisswanbon said:

No mid control, but if you're just looking for slight break up, EQ doesn't really come into the conversation for me...

 

1. Way Huge Pork & Pickle - perfect for tube like breakup

I had the standalone Way Huge Pork Loin which did a great job of this. Quite tweakable too with additional internal trim pots.

I’ve still got my Big Head, which I ended up using plugged in due to the battery degrading. It still sounds fantastic, but for practise I now use an NU-X Mighty Plug for its sheer convenience. 

Robert Plant, mentioned above, on bass during the Concert for Bert Jansch last weekend at the Barbican

2 hours ago, sandy_r said:

 

..."Strings and things haven’t any in stock" according to @gt4ever

Doh. I’ll try to read the entire post in future. 

I’ve bought spares for my Stingray from Strings and Things, the UK distributor, in the past. Worth a quick email?
https://www.stringsandthings.co.uk

Another vote for the Nux Mighty Plug, but be aware it’s a fundamentally different setup to the AmpKit. You won’t be using the GK app on the iPad, the Mighty Plug handles all the bass audio, and your iPad is only necessary for streaming any audio that you want to play along with. It’s more convenient; you only have the headphone cable so you can wander around while playing, and you can stream from any Bluetooth device. The only downside is that the Bluetooth lag means you can’t really watch videos and play along.

I played fours for 30 years, but I’ve played a five for the last 3 years and I can’t see myself going back. I love not having to move positions so much, and having the lower range without needing a drop tuner. I also find it easier to visualize patterns across 5 strings. For me there is no downside, and I use my five string for everything. 

Duracell PP3 batteries are fairly cheap and last at least 12 months in my active basses, so I simply replace them once a year and recycle the old ones responsibly. I wouldn’t want to require an external box to power my instrument. 

Husker Du - Flip Your Wig and Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche ‘85

3 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

MusicMan seem to have forgotten about lefties altogether when really they need to get me an unlined Stingray fretless in left handed which they did years back but now there's nothing except the cheapest non-US model fretted basses available on left handed.

Agreed, ten years ago you could order loads of their stuff as left-handed, now there are just some Stingray Special 4s in the Vault.

I really wanted to buy a Special when they were launched. By the time they did make some lefties I'd taken up 5-string, so now I'm waiting to see if they will ever make a LH Stingray Special 5.

I used to swap the 45-105 set with the same size D’Addario EXLs on my Fender P. Tension was close enough that I could get away with no adjustments. 

Steinberg’s Dorico will do this: https://steinberg.help/dorico/v4/en/dorico/topics/write_mode/write_mode_arranging_tools/write_mode_notes_generating_from_chord_symbols_t.html

There’s a free version you can try

Ideally you’d add them to the iPhone’s Music library but you need a Mac or PC to do that, annoyingly. 
 

You could try VLC Media Player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Decent playing on this unquestionably terrible record

Two string sets up for grabs, £10 each, posted to the UK.

Ernie Ball Super Slinky Bass 5, set #2824, 40 - 125 SOLD

DR Extra Life Cool Blue, set CBB5-45,  45 - 125.  These are coated strings that are actually blue. SOLD

Both long scale, I'm pretty sure. They came with a used Stingray 5, unopened though I suspect they are a few years old.

For sale is my Barefaced One10 cab in excellent condition. Superb small cab, handling 250W at 8 ohms, and weighing just 16lbs. This is a fairly recent example so it doesn't have the peeling Tolex issue.

Price is for collection from St Albans, but I do have the box so I can post at extra cost if necessary.

24 minutes ago, fergs40 said:

My Westone Thunder 1A (the later one with the big - Magnabass? - pickup) has two 9v batteries - and that dates from 1986…

My 1983 Thunder 1A does too, they all had an 18v preamp

1 hour ago, Misdee said:

I am interested to find a definitive answer to whether the two band EQ is cut and boost or boost only on the bass.  According to EBMM, both are cut and boost. But is the "flat" position  where a centre detent would be actually flat or is the bass actually still  boosted to give a residually bottom-heavy tone, if you see what I mean? 

I suspect the answer is that Music Man voiced the bass as a whole system of pickup plus preamp, and consider the “flat” setting to be 50% on both controls. I bet the output of the pickup alone is lower in the bass frequencies, and the preamp does indeed only boost. 

1 hour ago, Doctor J said:

No. The bass control is boost only, it's only flat when turned all the way down. Anything above that is boosting the low frequencies. The treble is cut and boost, flat is somewhere in the middle of the travel. The thing people do with the 2-band model, where they turn all the knobs up full, is why the G disappears, it's not the pickup, never has been.

The 2 band is in fact boost and cut for both treble and bass, as described in the manual