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Thank you our kid, very gracious! Like football, the 2 on the flanks catch the eye and take all the plaudits but Bobby in the middle there is a workhorse and genuinely brilliant!

Colin Greenwood from Radiohead was an early adopter of the Sterling and used them a bit around the time of the first album - the Sterling was launched in 93 and came with the mutes on the bridge My wife thinks there are so few to be found because i have too many! 2005 blue pearl 4H weighs about 4.5 kilo/ 9.9lb 2012 Classic with mutes, slab body, string through body, 2 eq, no switching, 4.6 kg/ 10.1lb 2019 post box red (recent bday pressie to myself to celebrate LFC triumphs!), roasted maple neck and headstock, 4.0 kg/ 8.81lb I've been playing these since 2008 - I intended to buy a stingray but tried the Sterling next to it and was instantly converted. The selling points for me are: the neck profile is the most comfortable of any bass for me - if you prefer jazz to a P bass neck then you will undoubtedly prefer the Sterling to a Stingray I like the smaller body shape, much more elegant and comfortable smaller headstock than stingray - I like to smash drummer's cymbals with it! The three way switching and eq options are extremely versatile can be a very aggressive sound - I usually prefer to tame it with flatwounds The Classic is extremely rare and they were only made for about 6 years - I love the mutes, the neck is high gloss and amazing figured maple. The neck feels different and nicer somehow to the standard 4H to me but I can’t work out why, it seems to be the same profile. I've heard people say that gloss makes the neck sticky but I’ve never had a problem under stage lights. Not as versatile without the switching and only 2 band eq but it does what it does very well. I’ve never encountered a lightweight one. My new one is the lightest I’ve ever heard of at 8.81lb - can anyone beat that?

Bit pricey but they last a long time if you don’t mind the mellower tone

Is OCD infectious? It had never occurred to me before but now you mention it I’m wondering if I should try tuning it to DADF? Did slightly better lining the new ones up but still not perfect and Im also concerned that the blue may not look quite right against my new post box red bass

Thank you both, much appreciated. I’m ordering more, don’t even remember buying them but I definitely prefer them to my EB Chromes.

Hi Can anybody please advise One of my 4 string basses has a set of smooth feeling, flat/hybrid strings - they have blue silk at top and bottom and the ball ends are different colours (copper, red, black and green from E to G) I’d love another set if anybody can advise what they are I suspect Ernie Ball slinky Cobalt (not the cobalt flats which I think have purple silks?) or possibly D’Addrio?

Thanks for answering your own question fretmeister - I was about to ask the same question and now I don't have to.

I'm curious - Has anyone tried the RS115?

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I bought Rob's EBS multi drive. It arrived the next day, well packed. A smooth operator! Thanks

Hello Basschat An overdue introduction from me as i've been loitering around the site for about 18 months, late at night like some anonymous, dirty mac wearing, bass addict. I'm 45 and started playing bass in bands at an early age. Gigging from about 1983 - mostly metal in the 80s with some older guys (very spinal tap), followed by indie/britpop and other stuff in Sheffield in the 90s. The noughties were mostly spent on starting a family, a day job career and home recording (and playing guitar!) in the middle of the night. I listen mostly to indie, disco funk and soul, classic rock, motown/staxx and Radio 6. Got heavily back into bass about 2008, got my first MusicMan Sterling and started playing in a bizarre party covers band with friends. ("village people meet clockwork orange on acid" was a fairly good review) We've mashed up House of Pain's "Jump Around" with Boney M "daddy cool", Hawkwind and the Doors into a single song. If you don't like that what about cheeky girls with grandmaster flash/zeppelin and various others. Appreciate it's not going to appeal to most but I think we are starting to get quite good at what we do and most importantly I'm loving playing and performing. Maybe a Eurovision future awaits! Also doing some more serious stuff. I'm practising bass most nights and constantly learning new stuff - songs, theory, technique, styles etc - internet is an amazing resource, as is this place. Jazz is a foreign language I'm slowly beginning to learn. Will be posting on forums soon - re Music Man Sterling Classic (mutes and EQ), and my old Sunn bass rig from the early 80s. [b] About Me[/b] [color=#5A5A5A][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][size=3][size=2][b][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Musicman Sterling Classic 2010 Musicman Sterling 2004 Tc Electronic RH450 RS 210 & RS 112[/font][/b][/size] [size=2]Currently performing as [b]Monsieur Rudolph Hooker[/b] in [b]The Lotharios [/b] [i]Liverpool's finest, no-nonsense, nonsense party band[/i] [b][u]www.lotharios.weebly.com[/u][/b] [b]My feedback [/b][url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/265932-feedback-for-marti-t/"]http://basschat.co.u...ck-for-marti-t/[/url][/size][/size][/font][/color]

I bought Bruce's mxr envelope filter. It arrived the next day in immaculate condition and as above, the packaging was the best I've seen. Top Man, no hesitation in recommending. Thanks again Bruce!