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It's no good if you need more than one effect at once. But if, like me, you use effects sparingly, and only one per song, it can work well. It's replaced a board with octaver, envelope, distortion, phaser and chorus, and it fits in my gig bag.

It’s interesting that EBMM have dropped them from the latest Stingrays though, and nobody seems to be complaining.

You need to connect the L tape deck output to the XLR and R to the instrument/line input (or vice versa), so a different cable or adaptor for each.

The Scarlett Solo has a one mic input and one instrument/line input, so you'll need to connect your L & R tape deck outputs to those inputs using suitable cables or adaptors. The two tracks will be going through separate input circuits so there might be slight differences in the levels and EQ, though maybe unnoticable when the source is an old cassette. Record onto two audio tracks in your favourite DAW, ensuring you don't have any processing set up on the inputs. From there you can edit into individual tracks, process if desired and export to whatever stereo format you like.

I'm not aware of the pickup wiring ever being changed. Where did you hear about it?

I’ve had a Bass Sleeve for years and regularly walk a mile or two with it. I find it perfectly comfortable, but I am over 6ft.

I bought a few over the years for my lefty Fenders and found it simplest and cheapest to get Bass Direct to order them in.

Also available as audio only from the usual places. An interesting listen.

If you've not played a bass guitar at all, the simplest first step would be to try a regular 34" scale model for a while to see how you get one with it. You'd discover if you really need an extra long scale, an upright position or a very thick neck.

Assuming it's not something obvious like the disk being almost full, you can run the built in diagnostics https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102550 The internal clean suggestion is worthwhile. We had a couple of slow MacBook Pros in the office that turned out to have badly clogged fans.

They were in the Mod Shop for a while, then removed, but now reintroduced.

Music Man’s NAMM announcements include the Custom Design Experience, coming in the spring: ”The all-new Ernie Ball Music Man Custom Design Experience will allow customers to design and build unique StingRay Bass guitars in both right and left-handed and 4-string and 5-string configurations.” https://blog.music-man.com/instruments/ernie-ball-music-man-new-at-namm-2024/ Sounds like the Fender Mod Shop for EBMM instruments. Deep pockets required, I expect!

I think it’s the bridge. You can draw a straight line down through the fingerboard dots and the pickup centres which doesn’t end up in the centre of the bridge. Still inexcusable but it’s more easily explained than both the pickups being misaligned.

Certainly worth thinking about. Here’s an impressive job from a few years ago: http://basschat.co.uk/topic/256290-nbd-fender-precision-american-special-fretless-conversion/

I’ve had two new Sandbergs, a TM5 and VM5, and both played superbly straight out of the box, with actions of about 2mm at the 12th fret. Have you checked the neck relief? They are easy basses to adjust.

Was about to post the same thing. I have these on several basses and they always work well.

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

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?

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