Damonjames

Well, life has done a fantastic job of slowing this project up!!! the good news is it is almost done. I will start moving furniture in tomorrow all things being equal, once I have it set up I’ll take some photos and update!!

I’ve been interested in these for a while now. I haven’t been gigging much this year, so have been dragging my current strings out as long as possible.... this weekends gig proved it a Bridge too far ? just dropped the hammer on a set of cobalt flats to go on my sr5 hs, hoping the series pickups will help keep it lively. I got a set of regular slinky 5’s for the sr5 H so I should be able to a/b with the H is series mode and see what the difference is!

Cheers pal!! The family (mother in law) is on the mend now too mate thanks. Yes, that recess should be perfect for wall hanging some basses 😄

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Hey everyone, sorry for the extended delay!! Finishing off the extension, issues with central heating and family in hospital have slowed up progress, but things are moving along now!! I'll update some photos during the week, so you can see, but things are progressing nicely. Two things to note, 1. Rockwool is itchy stuff!! Make sure you have the correct ppe for this! 2. Soundboard is BLOODY heavy!!! I'm ok as my room is small, but if you were contemplating doing a larger room, you would definitely need a buddy to help. Even getting the sheet into the garage was a ballache, at 36kg per sheet, the option of holding them overhead and screwing them up as full sheets is not doable!! I cut them down the middle to make it easier!

Glad it's working mate! I have the same setup and was starting to worry!

Maybe we should blow up the pokies and drag them away.... Or maybe we could write a song about it 😂

Taste is very personal. I had an obp-3 in my Spector Euro which was promptly replaced with a tone pump. The Aguilar pre's, to my ears at least, are much the same as their amps... VERY transparent. If that's what you are after then they are amazing. I bought the above Spector euro for that classic Spector growl, which had been tamed with the aggy pre so it just sounded like any other active bass. Some may say that is a good thing!! 😂

Ok, looks like it the same as the sterling up until 2008, it must have been around the time they switched the sr5 pickups to alnico that they switch the wiring to parallel. Sorry for the thread hijack to the OP!!! So after all that, if you want the sterling sound but can't get a sterling 5, get an sr5 up until 2008 😂 Now I want a post 2008 alnico pickup sr5 lol

Just posted in the ebmm forum too, hopefully someone can sort it out. It's my only bug bear with musicman, the product lines are really confusing!!!

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1505312504' post='3370951'] Looking at the current specs on the Musicman site, the Stingray pickups are wired in parallel in themselves and continue to be wired in parallel through the multiple combinations. The Sterling seems to be in series. [/quote] You are correct!! It is however not what I have been assured of how mine is!!! 😂 Perhaps they changed the wiring on the sr5 to be parallel when they swapped back to alnico pickups? Perhaps someone more knowledgable can chime in???

Looks like all the multiple pickup sr5's come wired in series on the humbucker. I am assuming this will be the case with the sterling 5.

I'm not 100% on that as I seem to recall someone saying you have the option on the HH to select series or parallel on the bridge H, then the furthest position is the neck H isolated. The remaining positions were different combinations. But then the sr5 HH that is currently for sale on here says it is series only, so maybe there are different options?

Just on the HS config Just be mindful, the main humbucker comes wired in series only, whereas the standard H has the three way option of parallel-single coil-series. Thus making it more difficult to nail the classic stingray 4 sound as you can't get the parallel wiring.

[quote name='Muppet' timestamp='1500979011' post='3341409'] Ouch! is that why they're not so popular? Or are they not that good a bass? Can you recommend somewhere good to order through? Thanks Steve [/quote] Make no mistake, the sterling basses are bloody amazing. I have small hands, so I can't get on with a stingray neck. Without ordering a new stingray with the slo (Sterling neck profile) neck, a Sterling was all I could get... LOVED it!!!! The only reason I sold it was to fund the purchase of a second stingray 5 as this was now my main bass and wanted to concentrate on playing 5's One reason you won't see many sterling 5's is due to the crazy design team at MusicMan. The original stingray 5's had an alnico pickup same as the stingray 4. Then around '92 they swapped to ceramic pickups, essentially making them more of sterling 5 than a stingray 5 (despite looking like neither bass, it really should have been a silhouette bass 5). They then switched the pickups back to ceramic In the stingray 5 (sometime around 2008 I think) also around this time the sterling 5 was release with ceramic magnets. So if you can't find a sterling 5, try picking up a stingray 5 from 1992-2008 and you should get VERY close to the sterling 5 sound. I've never played a sterling 5, so can't attest to the neck profile, but given it is already 17.5mm string spacing on the stingray 5 I can't see it being any smaller.