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My bands do it in A. Its playable but i needed the 5 string to play it correctly. It always goes down well, even though my guitarist never gets it right (most of it in fact )

Gimmie gimmie gimmie lol cheers nick. I always feel safer when I don't have to worry about batteries.

Hey Nick. Do you know if this bass will run without a battery in it (passively of course). Still enjoying it?

[quote name='paul h' post='819485' date='Apr 26 2010, 03:16 PM']That is severely gas inducing.[/quote] Yep, so much so that im now looking for one of my own now, and selling my Lakland to fund it :-(

[quote name='gafbass02' post='818456' date='Apr 25 2010, 09:00 PM']Where there's a will there's a way.... (20 years in bands, 10 of which with a trace elliot stack, Now using markbass but still no driving licence!)[/quote] Same here. Keyboards and now Bass. Ive been lucky though and have been in bands with mates. I gig with two regular bands now so i have two small rigs. Each drummer keeps one at his house. On gig days i get myself to the drummers house and off we go. I do get dropped back home or stay at the drummer house after gigs. Its been working for about 5 years now.

[quote name='luckman67' post='819142' date='Apr 26 2010, 11:58 AM']I am new to Musicman's since only buying my S.U.B Stingray last Saturday. Anyway I'm off work this week so this morning after reading this fascinating thread, plugged my SUB into my Ampeg BA115 combo and thankfully my G string sounded as even as the other strings. I did'nt know that the Stingray had this type of problem I thought that they were problem free.[/quote] You probably wont notice it until you play with the band. Its not that its quiet, its more that it lacks the fullness of the other strings. I found this to be the case with my Sub and my Ray34. If you dont add too much low end boost, and dont drop the mids (on the amp in your case) or the treble you may never notice it. Ive checked my strings output using the input level meter in Wavelab and all seem pretty even but as soon as i play along to a MP3 and add some EQ on the Bass certain notes will get lost. I find its more so with finger playing than pick playing. With a pick it seems to boost the upper freqs anyway and i find this also helps. I also hadn't heard about this at the start of the year, but after some research i noticed it was a problem that some people had, and many others dont. When i got my Sub i was quick to test this out at home and all was well. But at the gig that night there were certain lines that just didnt come through. Even the band asked why i had changed a few lines. I didnt of course, it was just missing notes. Ive got live recordings that do indeed show this. Its like the low freqs dominate the upper ones, causing the notes to almost disappear. I find its between the first fret and about the 7th. After that its fine. I dont really find it a problem these days, i can live with it.

Now my XLs have gone almost dead its string change time. Ive used Chromes and TI's in the past on P's and Jazzes but never on a Music man. While im happy to get my usual Chromes ive been reading about the EB Group III strings. Seems like they are pretty close in feel to Chromes but sound quite different. I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on these strings. They are to go on my Ray34. They are quite expensive though so i might decide not to go with them. Cheers.

Nice one Nick. I sent you a PM before seeing this thread so just ignore it if you want to. Im with Clarky on the dots thing. Thats always put me off Sandbergs. This looks almost normal. It sounds like i may have to investigate a Sandberg again before i go and buy something i dont really need. As im going through a Stingray phase but still loving the good old P tone this type of bass seems ideal. You dont see many of them come up with the dots (and even less with the inlays )

Nice one Wayne. I'd love to do this. Not a huge queen fan but i do like JD's bass line. As already said, most of its played on a P but a few were done on a SR4. You got one? lol Im sure for a small production any bass will work, just keep the slapping to a minimum ;-)

Red and black together to the hot connection. On my ray34 this was to the circuit board where the White lead was. The other 3 leads go to ground. On my ray34 this was just to the back of the vol pot. This will give you a pup wired in parallel and this is the standard wiring for a single pup SR. I didn't know any of this either until last night. Hope this helps. I spent ages searching for this info and couldn't find much on line. The wiring diagram can be found on the seymour Duncan website.

I did get a reply from carey last night. Although I had wired it back to front I re did it according to Carey's instruction but it sounded the same. After playing it for a while I am happy with the tone. My theory is that the nordy has a tighter low end and this is helping to stop the G from getting overpowered with low end and this helps it cut through. Could be wrong though. It does sound a bit smoother overal so I think it wad worth doing.