warwickhunt

5 strings all lighter than 4 strings... what's all that about? Sadly at nearly 9lb an average 'Special', just isn't light enough for me. Looks like I'll have to look at the short scale versions (USA and Sterling by)!

I've asked in the past re. getting a body made to spec with the main criteria being weight reduction. I was essentially told that suppliers can't guarantee a weight for any timber but can give guidelines for what different timbers usually weigh. A luthier supplying a light body (chambered or otherwise) would be asking a premium. There are dirt cheap bodies on ebay etc that give an approximate weight but TBH none would give you a gross weight of near what I want (8lb). You'd be back to having spent £500 (or more) for a spare body and that's £500 you could put toward a bass that you could buy off the shelf/used and not lose money on. I think I'm going to see if I can find a Sterling shortie in a store to get a feel for weight and size whilst watching for something used in the 'Special' range or possibly a USA Shortie.

Nice idea (I already have a USA Ray to act as donor) but I'd be paying for a body + routing + finishing and to get a light weight bit of timber I'm guessing I'm paying premium money... which leads me back to the total cost potentially being more than selling my Ray and purchasing one that I know for a fact is the correct weight. Saying that, all of that is doable IF I can source a good body blank that I can guarantee is going to give me the gross weight I'm after.

Cheers for the info. However, please tell me you didn't string that one on the left... unless you were intoxicated at the time.

Of course you could. Do you have the knowledge and skills to do that?

I'm sure if I had the coffers it'd be a doddle to get a custom made MM 'copy' to my specs but I have experience with custom builds and if it isn't exactly what you wanted... you're stuffed! Buying an off the shelf (used) bass means you can try and walk away if it doesn't suit!

In short: No, no and no. Line outs will not drive a cab. They lied or know sweet FA. Outputs are mono and are rarely in red. Finally, without wanting to cloud the issue further and based on comms so far, no you can't connect the 2 cabs to your amp.

The clue is in the 'Line outs' label. Whereas the 'Speaker out' is in a separate section to the left.

They are NOT speaker out puts!

Do you have 2 outputs on your amp? Many have.

Can't you stack the BF vertically (invert one cab)? Mixing speaker diameters in an array... a whole new can of worms there my friend!

May have been owned by a BCer or two in the past!

I like the original G&L headstocks but never quite 'got' the bottle-opener look. I'm a self confessed tart and these things matter when you get to my age... I don't want the bass aesthetics to detract from my boyish good looks! However, I'm still off to Google the Kiloton!

I'm hereby quoting you! Oddly enough I have a Sterling SB14 which being smaller than a Ray and lesser quality woods than a USA Sterling you'd think might be lighter... nope! Oh and that is another classic case of a shop/seller weighing a bass and informing me it was 8.5lb (don't get me started on decimalisation of imperial units ) but was 1lb heavier on arrival. I did argue with the seller but their defence was that my scales could be wrong.

Considered this but it would mean butchering a genuine body or sourcing an aftermarket job and costs for luthiers to do this start to step up considerably. If I can source a used 'downsized' MM/EB that I know the weight of then I'll not have any of the vagaries of chopping up and devaluing a bass. Added to which I'd need to use my MM neck but add light weight tuners... costs keep mounting. Not my cup of tea really, the MM headstock is iconic and the Sandberg just leaves me indifferent. I'm sure they are great basses though. It seems the short scale MM basses are a significantly smaller body (going off their sizing v the full size Ray that I have). This could be my way forward but I'll need to try one on for size (and weight).

In theory that is a great idea and one I've used in the past... in practice I have had basses that have put on 0.5kg between being weighed and delivered to me. I have a 'custom' bass that the manufacturer/luthier quoted the weight of on their website (bearing in mind this is custom order, one of a kind), the bass is a full kilo heavier than they stated! Private sellers are worse; I've asked for 'accurate' weights (going to the extreme of specifying kitchen digital scales not bathroom etc) and yet basses still put weight on during shipping. Though one of our very own BCers was genuinely shocked when he weighed his bass (which he though had to be under 9lb) and apologised profusely before we had concluded our deal. I'm also still interested in what models are downsized.

My head is battered in trying to navigate the various Musicman/Ernie Ball ranges to establish if they do a downsized body of the Stingray model. I figured it might be quicker to ask the collective hive mind that is Basschat! I realise the Sterling is smaller but tbh they still tend to be on the beefy side with regards to weight, hence considering a scaled back Stingray... I wouldn't be concerned if it was shorter scale but I don't know that shorter scale models are smaller bodied (ergo lighter). To clarify: I'm looking for a light Ray or Sterling but I would ideally like the body to be a reduced size. Cheers people.

B*ll*cksy ba5tard health! Wish you the best and hope it gets better... or no worse.

How a 4x10 should look!

My head hurt just trying to work out his 'options'!

Musicman Stingray 3 band EQ - on first powering up has a very faint distortion but which within seconds builds up and after about a minute sound goes off and there is a pulsing tone. Has anyone encountered this before? Fresh battery (twice), leads, cabs and amp swapped and tested so not them. Bass has been stored in its case (sans battery) for about 4 years. Any insight gratefully sought.