Delamitri79

I dunno man but I was doubting myself then, ya know?

Hey how's things I'm Derek. I'm from the Midlands of Ireland. I'm 40. Been playing 23 years. Currently playing a Musicman Stingray 5 US 2013 single H. I'm with a wedding band doing the general stuff (ya know). I love checking out all the forums and especially all the great basses for sale. Man if I had money I'd be broke 😂😂😂

Nice one mate. So you'd count it the same way as me?

Hans solo's half brother 😂

Cheers yeah I know about the reverse stuff alright.

Hey folks. Ok I want to try and settle something between myself and the drummer. The bass solo in call me al is something that I've struggled with for a long time but lately I feel like I'm nailing it pretty well. This is how I'm counting it. 1+2+3+4+1+2+3+4 with the solo starting just after the 1 beat. The verse comes back in then on the 1 of bar 3 if ya get me. I've listened to it hundreds of times and played it correctly over and over again and I feel I have it right. The problem is the drummer doesn't come back for the verse on the same beat as me. He comes in on the one after and insists I'm doing something wrong. Can someone please count this out for me or write it out musically or whatever way that I can count it properly Many Thanks

Hey folks. I currently run bass into tuner into di into desk. Thinking of adding a compressor just to tighten levels. Whose using them and what ones Cheers

Played a wedding in the Midlands of Ireland. Gorgeous hotel and fantastic crowd.

OK decision has been made and its time for a little confession. I own the rosewood one and I had the opportunity to swap it for the maple. I've decided to keep my own rosewood ray5. I was very fortunate to be allowed to hold onto the maple board ray5 for a week or so (many thanks Ian) but now having played it I realise that the darker tones do it for me, all be it by just the tiniest of margins. Both basses are spectacular and easily would be right at home in any gig. Many Thanks for all your great comments and input. I greatly appreciated them and they helped on my way Keep her lit low enders

They are both beautiful basses. The natural finish with the maple board is out of the world

When you say more chunky, do you mean more space between the strings. Ive found the maple one to be easier to negotiate between the strings

It's a hell of situation ain't it 😂. They're both gorgeous and I've played both. Aesthetically the maple neck is absolutely killing it for me. I love it. The ceramic pickups are pretty much 100% to the tone I want from a ray5. The rosewood one looks killer with the aged white pearl pickguard and it has that darker tone and its only 6 years old and has the alnico pickups which I'm not fully sure about. I really do think Ernie ball should've kept the ceramic pups in the stingray line and not worry about the sterling thing. To me, ceramic IS the Ray sound. I've to make my mind up soon.

That's gorgeous. This is the choice I've got

This is me at a local gig recently

I did a gig on sat night with the maple board ray5 and the sound engineer asked if I had the volume up full as he thought there was a low output from it. It does have fairly old dead strings on it which I'm changing tomo so that could've been the problem. Have you ever known a ray5 to have a low output

I was always a great believer in the aesthetics of a bass regardless of how it sounded, it has to look good.

I genuinely haven't noticed any sharp edges on the maple board.

Cheers mate. Thanks for the tips. I'm trying out both this week at different gigs

There's just something about the maple isn't there.

"go with you heart" I hear ya brother ❤️

I'm not sure if it's the classic Ray tone I like. I got hooked onto bass with Tim commerfords bass tone on the 1st RATM album and that's what I love.

Alright folks. I've the opportunity to buy a 1999 stingray 5 with a maple neck or a 2013 stingray 5 with a rosewood neck. I've played both and I'm still torn. I like the bite of the ceramic pups from the 99 but I like cut through of the rosewood on the 2013. Someone put me out of my misery.