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I think the Ash bodied variant is often heavier than the black mahogany body version

Do you run your V4B with master fully open and gain adjust for level or a mix of both ? My band is rock so not looking for totally clean but a bit of grind and best volume

Tried them and didn’t like or care for the tone for my rock band

In balance to the Joy of the P / J What do you love about your Stingray ?

Firstly don’t use the compressor on the ABM600 as it drops your volume and sucks tone. I now use the MXR 87 and it works brilliantly with the ABM600 head. I set mine as MXR suggest and raise the MXR output so I just hit the VU meter Red on my loudest notes. The result is a louder amp, more definition and thump and no large peaks to worry the speakers

Well folks I’ve purchased the V4B that was for sale on here ( thanks Dave ) Looking forward to using it with my SVT212AV cab

Just weighed it 9.6lbs Slightly more than my PBass The black model has a mahogany body

New bass day Sterling Ray34 in black arrived today and I’m very pleased with it. Nice neck (43mm at nut ) and very good EQ adjustments using the active preamp. Liking the bass on full, mids backed off slightly and treble boosted Very punchy sound

Just ordered a Ray34 in black 👍

Very quiet on mine ( comes on as required )

Thanks for the advice guys … as a previous user of the SVT CL head and 610 cab I don’t think I found that any better than my current ABM600 rig for the expected venues I’m sure the V4B is a superb head but it would not give me much more than my ABM600 already provides and the ABM will go louder I think by some way. So in summary I’m going to park any ideas of adding a tube head and be happy with what I already have !

Would either the CTM100 or V4B head into a 212 cab ( 4ohm ) be loud enough without PA support in a loud rock band for small to medium venues ? Im tempted to add one to my collection

Semiconductor global shortage is affecting production on many things ABM600 on sale on eBay if that helps ( not mine lol )

That’s true too 👍

The solution to this is turning down the input gain a bit 😉

Definitely.. in my younger years I played only EB Stingray basses and thought they were perfect for rock I recall a visit to Ashdown and they had an old PBass laying around to use through their amps and I hated it mostly due to the weak ( in comparison) pickup Returning to bass a few years back I purchased a Fender PBass as I couldn’t afford the EB stingray I’m still tempted to go for the Sterling Ray34 which has a closer neck to a PBass but they are circa £1K new

Great strings but … Im returning to Fender Pure Nickel on both basses as I find them better for my setup Selling two new sets of RS66LD and the hardly used Elixir 45-105 in the for sale section ( and eBay ) Elixir were on my PBass and only been played about 4hrs total !