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    Me Tings Wiv Strings

    in Gear Gallery

    Posted

    [quote name='tonyf' post='74343' date='Oct 14 2007, 11:44 PM']Howdy Kier,

    Absolutely loving the ASAT, it's such a great bass and I'm so glad we did the bass-swap styleee!

    Put the tort plate on ur Sterling yet?

    T[/quote]

    yes it is and its looking great.some pics of it and the Spector will be on my photobucket later this week

    thanks again

    keir

    Grossest bass story....... Ever..!

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted

    [quote name='Telebass' post='71088' date='Oct 8 2007, 03:45 PM']But if [i][b]that[/b][/i] smell made you heave, we had to repair an electro-acoustic, and on asking why it looked so bad inside, were told, "Oh, I got drunk and threw up in it..."[/quote]

    my god,that is just wrong. :)

    DJ

    MusicMan Sterling

    in Basses

    Posted

    to clarify the £750..it was an ebay auction that dawsons run and no one else bid on.the listing finished at 9.45 on a sunday morning when most bass players (myself included)are still in their bed.that morning I wasnt and saw it 15 minutes before it ended.borrowing the money afterwards was the difficult part lol
    I can only imagine I got it trade + VAT ^_^
    DJ

    MusicMan Sterling

    in Basses

    Posted · Edited by dub_junkie

    I bought this bass in January of this year from Dawsons Music in Chester.It was a new old stock job from 2004 which hadn't shifted.So no compensated nut,but as it was £750 new with the MM case I wasn't for passing it up



    Its finished in candy apple red(not sure whether its alder or poplar under it)and originally came with a black plate,though I bought the white EBMM pearloid one you see here a couple of months ago and it definetely suits it better
    The neck was very dry when I got it but after a few applications of beeswax that problem disappeared and the action was too high for my liking when I first opened the case - easy job to fix,and something I've pretty much had to do with any guitar or bass I've ever owned.
    The finish is flawless on my bass and I really love the colour of it. under stage lighting it goes almost magenta.
    The maple neck has a fair bit of figure lines in the wood but no flame or birdseye.The neck is starting to darken a little and its looking better all the time.
    Everything is solid on the bass.the bridge,tuners and controls are still tarnish free and everything works perfectly.
    One slightly strange anomaly is that it feels a tad heavier than any Stngray 4 I've owned,even though its downsized but it's light enough not to ever notice it during a gig.



    The neck is my favourite bit on a Sterling bass (I used to own a honeyburst with rosewood board).I love the shaping on these things.The're 38mm(1 1/2") at the nut and fairly deep behind the first fret (well compared to a Stingray anyway)
    from what I remember of Rays and SUB basses,the Sterling's neck stays a bit deeper front to back all the way up.
    Sorry but I think only mad people and lifelong P-bass guys wouldnt like this neck....
    The fretting is first class,no lifting,sharp ends,filler under the tangs,anything else undesirable.a lot of attenton to detail has gone into the fretting of this bass by the looks and feel of it.The rolled over fingerboard edges make it the best I've ever wrapped my left mitt around.I think the plastic nut is the only let down but I guess I can live with that.

    Soundwise,its a more mid-rangey Stingray to my ears.I never,ever bother with the series or single coil settings so I wont bother commenting on them - they sound fine - but the parallel setting is the classic stingray tone and thats the same sound I use with the Sterling. The EQ has its own voice compared to the Ray,maybe not quite so much bottom end but more growl and punch than its big sister.Treble can get a little noisy all the way up but I never move it more than a little up from the centre notch anyway so no issues there.Its a MusicMan sound but its got its own voice.It sounds better than a 3 band Ray imo which is why I chose it.I play it through a Warwick ProFet III and Warwick 4x10 at home but mostly with my 2 piece though a Line 6 Bass Pod XT Live board,into a Mackie Onyx mixer and Nexo PS15s and Nexo bass bins. It sounds great in every venue.



    I have pretty much always had a MusicMan bass these last 20 years and this one I'm hoping is a keeper. I sold my Bongo 4HS not long ago but kept the Sterling because its a better gigging bass imo.the smaller size and simplicity of the EQ and the great neck make it a breeze to play.
    Lately I've been playing my ASAT basses out live but the Sterling gets a look in every now and then but I'm thinking about going back to it more and more because its so easy to play.The G&Ls are more versatile in the range of tones on tap but I've reached a point in my playing where I just want to leave the knobs and switches alone and just play the same sound all night.
    The Sterling's perfect for doing that.I think its the best bass MusicMan make and I'll be playing them for many years to come hopefully



    I'd give this bass a 9/10 for everything because 10/10 would mean an end to GAS and I cant have that :)

    DJ

    behringer bdi 21

    in Effects

    Posted

    I just sold one on ebay(along with the AD121 acoustic version as well). I had it for a couple of years,and gigged it a fair bit and in retrospect I shouldnt have sold it but kept it in my kit bag for emergencies
    I liked it btw
    DJ

    Courier points system and courier issues

    in Amps and Cabs For Sale

    Posted

    I have shipped well over a dozen guitars and basses (and lots of other stuff too)with APC Overnight and never had a problem. My local depot is just 5 mind from me and it always one of the same two friendly faces that answer the door when I ring the bell
    +1 from me for APC


    conversely I'd never ever use Citylink.the bastids delivered my MM Sterling to a house down the street. I was still waiting at the end of the day and only after ringing Dawsons music I found out what had happened. couldnt believe it,the house was across the road,the bass in its case had been pulled out the box and the woman was "waiting on her husband to come home to see what it was all about" WTF! did she expect him to say he'd just taken up bass guitar even though the address was for my house across the road. Bad couriers,bad neighbours!

    Big -1 for Citylink

    DJ

    Musicman SUB, Stingray and Sterling.

    in Bass Guitars

    Posted · Edited by dub_junkie

    Sterling's got 22 frets - the Stingray 1 less,Sterling headstock is smaller too.the neck is narrower at the nut and I'd say deeper (front to back) than a Stingray.both great necks,for me the sterling wins out though.(but I much prefer J to P necks anyway)

    worth noting that even though they're smaller all over,Sterlings will often weigh as much as a Stingray and sometimes more.

    there also were SUB Sterlings too.seen a few but not many

    edit: 2 pickup Stingrays/Sterlings and SR5's are wired in series
    single humbucker Rays are wired in parallel
    single p/up Sterling and SR5s can be switched between parallel,single coil and series
    SUBs are parallel (I believe)

    DJ

    Roland Cube 30 guitar combo

    in Accessories & Other Musically Related Items For Sale

    Posted

    Roland Cube 30

    channel 1 - roland JC120 model (clean)
    channel 2 - various fender,marshall and boogie models
    volume for each channel,shared 3 band EQ
    effects 1 - chorus,flanger,phaser.tremolo
    effects 2 - reverb or delay
    line out,phones,aux in,foot stitchable (sorry dont have a footswitch for it)

    very good condition,home use since new

    its a loud little bugger btw :)

    £60

    collection from ayrshire or can meet in Glasgow.I'm gigging up through the central belt over the weekend so could meet somewhere along the M8 if suitable



    cheers

    DJ

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