Gaano124

Good news. Today I found a guy that would sell me a Status Stingray neck but it is a fretless unlined. I'll buy it, try it fretless and if I don't like it I'll do a fretwork with my luthier. Also seems to be a vintage one with the status logo black outline (not gold like yours) and truss rod adjust at the bottom of the neck heel

My plans are to use it as my signature/gig bass, I want to do a neck plate like the stingray special one, red body and carbon fiber pickguard, control plate. As bridge I will mount on some monorail in black, as well as the tuners (they would be black too). I know that the fender neck is also 34" but it misses one fret. If you notice the neck is placed a little bit forward from the neck heel bottom, in order to match the stingray classic diapason scale (nut-bridge screw). By the way, I placed that neck only for reference, I'm selling the maple jazz neck rn and because of that I had it lying around in my room. The Harley benton with mods sounds 1:1 to my ears, best deal for the price as a base for mods, but the basswood is awful... I tried to dig a battery hole with my luthier and the wood was so soft that it was so difficult to not make any dent... But in the end we succeeded and it was a killer bass! The pickup is an handmade Stingray replica made in Italy with alnico rods, 70€... For that price it was an absolute win. I still think that a sterling sub ray4/5 are the best modding platforms tho, If I'll find one I'll take it and keep in my closet waiting for future projects. Still looking for a status neck, because I know what look I'm seeking for

Man, this is dope. I'm also building a stingray myself and have been looking for a status neck since a few weeks but nothing... I did avoid some weird scammers on facebook but other than that I couldn't find any selling... I've also made some 2EQ preamps starting from mnats PCB and installed them on any harley benton and sub rays but this time I want to recreate the real thing (in my style with carbon neck eheh)

You know, this bass didn't need an upgrade at all, I've never had a problem with weak strings. The only "problem" was the fact that has a nut 43mm wide, but to me (I'm gigantic) it's not really a problem, because it's still comfortable to play. I upgraded because of my GAS syndrome and because i hated the slide side of the old pickup, i couldn't have a thumb rest, and also because i wanted a more vintage sound without spending 3 or 5k of money or just buy another bass (i have 3) like a ray 4 to mod, that's all. This is the old humbucker with the slide side. Sounded good, but too nasal and deep for me, that's because it should be an alnico III instead of alnico V like the nordstrand one

Thanks guys, but i think i'm going to put some Dr. I hate rotosound, too much tension for me, i'm a light touch player (Gail Ann Dorsey kinda style) just wanted to get closer to a vintage Louis Johnson sound, not to replicate it completely. Thanks for the advice.

Didn't know! Gauge and brand?

These are the results... Just an unbelievable improvement, and i'm still with the standard 3 band eq!

Oh great... I'm just interested in building a sorta of Louis Johnson sound for cheap... I'm just 1 year and a half into bass but my ears are in need of a better vintage and warmer sound, expecially in slap. I'm just trying to know if buying a john east mmsr 4knobs 3 band eq would be worth it (it's expensive, here in italy the total price woulkd be like 270 euros) can be worth or otherwise would be better making my own 2 band eq pre ernie ball replica with the addition of a rotatory switch to fill the last hole (jack on the side and not on the plate), i'm extimating like 60 euros in total. I have no money for an original pre ernie one (3k euros minimum) or just an ebmm classic stingray. The only thing I could do is to find someone that wants to exchange my mim jazz custom for a sterling ray 24 to upgrade in the future... I don't really know what to do. Tomorrow the nordstrand will be delivered to my house but i can't figure out how to get rid of the annoying clacking sound without getting poor...

Hi. I know that's an old post but I'm going to do the same mod on the same bass (also same color palette...) and I wanted to hear the samples but it looks like the link ha expired... Is there a chance i can hear those saples? Thanks in advance