All user reviews for the Music Man StingRay 4

Is there a microphone? I know bass sounds that come out less than two microphones DIFFERENT, so why bother? ...

UTILIZATION

Question her, no dception. One branch, it will cost you, you turn the knobs (adpend forcment also what is used as an amp, effects, etc..!) And a stamp reconnat we heard thousands of times and in all styles! I think she is a bit heavy but I am a weakling ... And low is still too heavy.

SOUNDS

In fact, I think with a little rglages and adapting his game, we just get all the sounds useful.

OVERALL OPINION

Nothing but happiness. Apart from the price of course (it's always the same). Both the buy OCCAZ thinking why the type sold it: a low quality that we do not sell, you must vrifier not having a problem! Otherwise we find easily for less than 1500.
A remake? Can be a 5 string??

This is a United States, with the original microphone, the rosewood fingerboard on a maple neck, active electronics with volume four buttons, acute, medium and severe

UTILIZATION

It is heavy but well balanced, not tiring.
The settings of the active electronics provide a stunning variety of sounds, especially since there is only one microphone!
The in-game settings are facilitated by the existence of a "notch" in the middle of the rotation of the potentiometers.
Fast enough, we identify two or three sounds you need, and can be found easily.
For example:
- "Big sound" all settings to half;
- "Cool jazz": acute and medium at 0, severe back
- "Jazzy solo" half acute, severe back
- To be heard without touching the volume control, just get a bit of medium ... etc ...

SOUNDS

Everything we can play with this bass. You're in luck: my group is very eclectic in a style sometimes rock, sometimes jazz, with gentle ballads and classic rock pulse.
I play without effects box, sometimes connected directly to the sound, sometimes with a little amp Peavey Basic 40 (an ancient, but strong, that sounds good).

OVERALL OPINION

I have three years.
I'm also a Welson (an ancient Italian!), The Fender Jazz Bass (Mexican and United States one) and a German clone (Hohner) Fender precision bass and an Ibanez which I forgot the model accurate.
It is at least as good as the Fender Jazz Bass States and significantly outperforms all others.
It is a low rather expensive. I bought mine used in 1100 euros, nine state really, and I think I've done a great deal for my pleasure to play.
It is perfect agreement: the provision of the fourth key is a bit confusing at first.
The strings I have, and I did not need to change in three years, have a defect: their thread is a little hard on the fingers of both hands, in the long run. I will find out if there is something less abrasive, without falling flat in the thread ...
If I had to change it (except for theft or fire, I do not see what might happen to him, it is rock solid!), I would buy the same or I am tempted by the new model, which aesthetics is less original but, as a result, more discreet than I with his "pickguard" egg-shaped black on the body in light beech veined.

"Made in America" ​​and on this one though, must say, they are not missed!
The handle is very pleasant for me, not too broad and we do not chopped steak with your fingers, passing on the edge of the handle ...
A single microphone, an easel with a very impressive quality and four knob:
Volume, treble, medium, severe

UTILIZATION

Well, she is a bit heavy I think, but we are bassist or you do not!
Access to acute and is quite easy for me, the microphone is positioned to play just the fingers, but that's the feeling of everyone!
Regardless of the setting on the preamp, the sound is good, there's nothing wrong, it really is up!

SOUNDS

I often hear things like:
With a single microphone, it is not very polivalente ... ben thin! I do not find me! I play whatever I want with! The equalization of this bass is very effective!
I've mostly with rock, but the blue of the tune and it sounds French and always!
The sound is deep and powerful, the highs are very crisp and precise bass

OVERALL OPINION

This is a very good bass and if it will be a remake, well I do it again without hesitation!
The price / quality ratio I think even when correct, but it is on this bass is not for every budget!

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Low balance well, trs enjoyable round, I had two saddle and rosewood finishes, in both cases is a vritable rgal.
enjoyable and well penss pots. LOW, if I had to keep one there n'yaurait not hsitations. There are sound regardless of the standard rglages.

SOUNDS

It's the sound of the bass, a fender-precision-bass-jazz supercharged! It is idalie for pop rock, funk, acid jazz, blues and fusion. It turns my amp, it is standard on the amp simulator lamps GarageBand / Logic (to say!) Or even live on a mixing desk. On SansAmp bass driver and on my Fender BXR 300 has rings: the bridge to mdiator prs Fawn Melody Nelson by Gainsbourg, as one begins to slap Flea, if you like the roundness (rhythm n blues, blues, southern rock) it is served. In fact I love it when j'arrte ...

OVERALL OPINION

I have fifteen years (the era they delivered 5 per month in France, he should not quibble about the choice of color), his only default, it is time for me tourn other basses, it covers all applications, if you like the slamming and gloss can complter palette of the set with a warwick.
Mine does not have the three bands SERIES prampli current is even better I guess.

It is CHRE, but it's worth it The price is much justification for my part can not get tired of it.

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- The handle is it enjoyable?
Yes. handle lumberjack, but enjoyable trs. the cargo spaces are well thought out.

- Access in acute (dernires freight) is it easy?
Not specially. at the same time it's not a Warwick is not what is asked. at least for the Rock, it's perfect.

- Ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)?
I thought long possder the heaviest bass of the world in the meantime I have a jou Ovation Magnum II, and currently on a Asat. So, yes the weight is gnial, this bass is a lgret amazing! it looks like an Ibanez SDGR400!

- Gets it easy to sound good? ...
No. is easily obtained MusicMan sound. that's all. and dj is not bad! see standard!

SOUNDS

- Appropriate are your style of music? > - Is it your style of music?
Yes. and no. not just because there's a Musicman. so again because it is excellent. but the long, one may also want to have another low.

- With what (s) amplifier (s) or effect (s) do you play?
The Musicman played naked. Gross. but no!

- What kind of sound you get and with what rglages ("crystalline", "bold ",....)?
Pff

- What are the sounds you prfrez, you dtest?
Ah shit, but the end!

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
Since 1991. some records, dozens of concerts, she morfler. it is always the low lumberjack I say.

- What is the particular feature you like best and least?
The +? sound
The -? sound

- Have you tried many other models before acqurir?
Tens. nothing that he could move the ankle. Asat one hand but twice the price the era

- How do you report qualitprix?
Cher. but logical. Low magic. mythical. it is a Bentley, it is the class, luxury, even if it is not perfect.

- With the exprience, you do again this choice? ...
In absolute terms? well yes sr. I have a good one, I have also an Asat. which is enough for me, as it is a Musicman but still better (level sound, but must love the pounds again, the shape, the neck thinner, and the panel 100 x wider sound possible, the coup one can get lost).

a Musicman is excellence. 4-string. 5-string, I dj a lot less. Musicman is the Rock of nature, a groove, a stir, a attack, slamming both warm (but not one or the other). indniablement is a low scne! a jewel.

[shift] 2006: I broke down the right and Asat Musicman playing so much in the same CATEGORY with a clear advantage for Asat, I spar to offer me the Musicman another low lumberjack, a Rickenbacker I would give my opinion on this beast has a chance if someone can INTERESTED, but at least the two I really complmentaires low and not competing. and it's cool!

It's a Musicman Stingray round Rabl (promotes acute, it seems) 4 strings, makes the USD.
A very effective eq 3, trs useful to form a wide range of sounds but always MM.
Perfect finish, that's all. The mcaniques are perfect. No dsacordage even in the big attack for hours. A microphone. Exactly.

UTILIZATION

The playability is what takes the most ds departure. This handle is superb natural, although large trs. The weight and balance are outstanding. With regard to the sound, come earlier, it is wide and powerful. The mids are opening a lot of possibilities, what really happen in any mix.

SOUNDS

I play extreme music, j'apprcie particulirementce its size for the grosrock, it's heavy, Dfine and slamming necessary. I use it mainly mdiator, trs is effective even if some make it a low slappeur fingers or play. Good slap in action with a low, one quickly realizes that it is also trs cool.
I use it with a svt3 and 410, ampeg also, that thing the couple stingray / ampeg is true, it's growl spare.
This works best with low tie reasonable. Given the stability of the instrument, no need to tie up the mule for a good consever tension ... If good rglages are made.

OVERALL OPINION

Bought on ebay, no prs 800 euros + 200 (...) customs fees and transport from US. I tried a lot of JazzUS before you buy, also excellent, but my less than humble opinion "of the pig." Something else.
For now, each time with me rptition is apprcier more.

Everything has to advise you warmly.

Update: I find the tui original transport of poor quality. Far too soft and unnecessarily cumbersome. Musicman hardcase should provide a much better quality with this low.

Invoice beautiful

UTILIZATION

Trs comfortable.
CHAC battery is very practical.
The basics are rglages and efficiently, but are mdium o?

SOUNDS

Too few mdium, dcevant.

OVERALL OPINION

It is true that this bass has a gules trs beautiful, natural wood, matt varnish, I had one for a year sduit by the object and confident in the brand. But she quickly render mdiums by severely limiting the nuances.
For half the price I got a fender jazz bass japan rdition 75 'which I am Mount microphones Di Marzzio "ultra jazz" and a Badass bridge: vintage look but what more grain!
Finally Musicman at only five-string basses offer a real range of sound.

-Made in California, it's written on it: P

A stingray-in design is a precision reboostée twenty years later ... so, a wide and thick neck (the anti-ibanez what), 20 frets, a single micro-micro but what! - anda violin that has proven itself a rugged bridge (made in music man), an ingenious system for trussrod, accessible at the bottom of the key and without necessarily using an allen key. The battery is easily accessible without having to unscrew a plate.

The wood-ah ... it's the wood when I saw the beautiful Maple Neck slightly birdeye I fell in love with this bass! The body is probably alder, is fairly lightweight.

-Settings: the top of simplicity: a volume, and active equalization, which is that I hardly touch the amp (unless it is rotten). Three knobs: acute, medium, serious. Simone and car.

UTILIZATION

-Handle: if you like that style, you can not ask for more. But as the instrument in general, despite some versatility, an instrument with a strong personality can not please everyone! In short, if you like 36mmm at nut, go your way. Sustain impress me, my strings have two years, and although they lost in brightness, the sound is always ...

-Access to acute: it means, "vintage" we would say-precision reference to oblige. Personally, it does not bother me, I find ample. But as I said above ...

-The general ergonomics broadly satisfies me, it is well balanced, it is a pleasure to handle. The weight is average, I had more light, but I frankly had heavier! (Old information just for example)

-A good sound? Sound good? It's a silly question! ^ ^ The microphone is a treat: a peach, a grain recognizable now, but very manipulable: Active equalization is very effective in two rounds of knob you go from flea to Duck Dunn (either give it away to the docks of the bay), through the pantera ...

-The high frequencies are handled with care, they can be boosted too very noisy. low set everyone agree, if you need resume in disaster after your solo accompaniment lens, a shot and you're back BassBoost the perfect rhythmic foundation. The mediums are used primarily to supplement the sound or rather to dig the slap for example. They give back a little heat, and even if it will not sound Pastorius, the stingray is not only a rock machine: you can play more jazz rock stuff.

-In short, the microphone is never at fault, the humbucker provides a gain equal no matter what, and battery level is very simple!

SOUNDS

This low-is both very typical and very versatile: it can be seen in the death metal like reggae!

-I have not had a chance to test it on the amp worthy of the name for now, but even a 20 watts it sounds already the fire of God! I think it's also meileur test, a quality amp can be too flattering.

-Ah, I want to say that I'm sick of reading instrument is a "versatile" in English it means certainly versatile, but in French versatile has a pejorative sense: it means who does not know what it wants! Heck at the end!

OVERALL OPINION

-What can I say? I was lucky to come across a great opportunity in 2000, and even if others make me feel low, it will always be my favorite! It dates from the first half of 1997, I intend to do a party for his ten years ... ^ ^ It ages very well and sounds better and better!

Nothing, nothing, nothing to regret!

Low manufactures in the United States, 21 frets, 1 volume + bass equalization, middle, treble.
The handle is a handle he parat lumberjack, personal, nothing ESG me in this race.

UTILIZATION

- As said above, I find the handle trs enjoyable, flat. Compar than my Ibanez EDB 605 (much thinner), there's no picture: that of the Stingray is much better.
- Access in treble is a bit difficult when you start playing and that we must seek all the dernires solo frets but I may not be quite used my bass
- I can not find it specially heavy. It is a little, but it is widely supported for a long RPET.
- I think we get easily the sought-playing on the middle and treble. I always put the bass back and plays on the other two pots to move from a round sound slamming.

SOUNDS

- I play prog rock group, and funk and fusion home. In other words, a send. We will not return to the dbat "we love it or hate it." When you love the sound Musicman is a rgal!
- I use a Hartke HA3500 with over 115 and 410 of SERIES XL Hartke. I add a compressor MULTICOMP EBS.
- As mentioned above, the sound of dpend qualisation. I find it versatile.
- What I prfre: the sound slap poustouflant!

OVERALL OPINION

- I for a week.
- I love the ct legendary, his look (the oval plate makes it unique) and especially the sound! A killing.
- I tried tons of bass between 100 and 3000 euros but it is by far the most to me scotch. I AIM essay G & L but I never had the opportunity. I hsit with a Warwick $ $, and I thought that the leaves fall for high-end, as much to align the sub and take the one that suits me the most. I plan to complter with a Yamaha 6 string Warwick or when my portfolio will be awarded for that purchase!
- For my part, I did not realize it is passion that has spoken. When the trs achte high-end sound has always, and it was worth the money. However, I do not really AIM inflation of 15% January 1, 2007.
- I for a week, so I can not judge whether I do it again the same choice. I am thinking of G & L that I've never tried!

This is my Premire trs upscale, and I put 10/10!

I played for 5 years on a Fender Jazz bass japan base. I wanted an instrument more upscale with better wood. My assessment of the Stingray will be essentially from the JB. I had gone to buy a big American Deluxe JB and then an opportunity came to me, I thought why not change it.

No need to revisit the technical characteristics of the GM, everyone knows. That fighter who refuses to be in control like that. The sound is quite heavy and has a dominant in the lower midrange quite pronounced. It's an immediately recognizable. Basseu when played on a MM on a recording or on stage, you can hear it now! This instrument is unique in their way in any mix or balance, even loaded ... like "push you I'm coming!". In other words, it does not in the discretion and I think this bass is rather reserved for sending music styles. Personally, I use it in a disco, funk in which the bass is very present here and slap hard. But beware, the égalo 3-band does not do everything and here is not so versatile that wants to suggest. To play the Chic (Bernard Edwards was one) is obviously great, but to quote the old James Brown of the 60s, even the soul, the MM sends too much, this is too. It supports a tad and presto, you find yourself down the volume. So, we forget to play on either junk (which date back to when the MM did not exist) or the risk of soft blues eat everyone.

In addition, the highs are quite delicate to deal with and it has very quick to be aggressive. A bit like the active EMG pickups that equipped a lot of guitars in the '80s, a sound of fret buttons is highlighted by the electronics of a diabolical precision. As such, I recommend this bass for beginners or intermediate levels. As it moves on this bass, I had 15 years of practice of the four strings in the fingers and I was already far from being armed. But where the JB tolerate inaccuracies, not only allows the MM and I had to learn to play precise if it's disgusting! To be clear, the MM is a tool reserved for bass players who can play!

Moreover, we note a compression of the natural sound that gives the impression of having a built-in compressor on bass. This can become annoying when you want to lower the dynamic attacking game under the right hand. The JB, I attacked less well and the bass followed linearly. On the MM, I attack a little less and continues to spit, you really control his game and calm down if you want to keep the subtlety in the dynamics.

The counterpart here is the sustain, which is also one of the big strengths of this bass. The bridge is more than a Fender balèze and has 2 large steel screws on both bridges and other things that keep them against each other. We obtain thus a higher resonant mass. We note a plaque, we let it ring, we'll smoke a cigarette, you come back, it sounds again. Something crazy!

Sometimes I tell myself that I would like to find the versatility and subtlety of the JB but I admit that it's very hard to do without the sound of the MM, this growl so special, that presence is phenomenal out on stage. An interesting alternative would be a JB with a microphone and an easel MM. Sandberg is here, and it seems that's fine. But here is a Sandberg and not a Fender or Music Man. And resale, no one will want one of Sandberg as Fender and Music Man, here is the values ​​of investment safe!

Regarding the price, we find at 2000 euros in France, it is too expensive even if the quality is there. It is an instrument to purchase and the market does not lack.

In summary, a great bass sound exclusive, but a very strong temper control you need to know ... maybe it's why we see them as the second hand market.

UTILIZATION

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SOUNDS

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OVERALL OPINION

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- Factory San Luis Obispo, California, USA.

- 21 frets, Saddle handle, rosewood fingerboard and Rabl.

- A micro pav Musicman classic style with two big blocks by rope.

- Bridge Musicman: large easel with bridges and gigantic Systm PREVENTING dplacements latraux nuisance of bridges: the solid, what ...

- Rglages: one volume, plus a legalization two bands (bass and agus) or three bands (low, medium and agus). The potentiomtres are notched in the middle of their race, which allows him to identify the rglages: before the notch is the band for enlve on the screen, it is neutral, and after s the catch, is added. Trs simple and effective.

I put 9 / 10 because, although the violin is irrprochable of quality, it is not worth the instrument maker that we can sometimes find in prices equivalent.

UTILIZATION

- The handle is trs enjoyable to play, although wider than the sleeves Fender for example, but you get used to rev quickly.

- The Access in agus is good, although it dpende lot of the position in which you play (if you wear your bass strap trs bottom, the ACCS is to agus more difficult than if you wear it above ...)

- The interface is excellent, the weight is correct, body shape, classic, enjoyable and the thumb is naturally found its place on the cot of microphones, two screws ...

- The rglages simple as we get the right sound easy, which is modified at will a small tower potentiomtre ...

SOUNDS

- Sounds a little PRSA suit all styles of music, dea versatility of the instrument. For the matre word of this bass is versatile ...

- I use an Ampeg BA-115 amplifier and a SansAmp Bass Driver DI Tech 21 home.

- We just really get all kinds of his imagination with al 'legalization three bands, from the crystalline to fatter with every possible ... INTERMEDIATE

- The sound, however, remain Musicman type, with a beep CHARACTERISTICS generating a strong signature sound. If you your a fan of Red Hot Blood Sugar Sex Magik period, you will love ... Listen to the bass lines of Flea on this album is the sound Musicman ...

9 / 10 because the sound is exceptional but the signature sound too Submitted ... However, when you love ...

OVERALL OPINION

- Try one you'll make your own opinion, his Musicman as essentially a matter of got ...

- I had tried several other basses before this one and it is true that such an instrument change your approach to the game ..

- The report Qualitprix is ​​good, although the price is trs lev (2000 average, without any options ...). Still, for the price, the quality is to go ... (heureusement. ..) is the price of the legend of the bass ... the instrument that every bass player should be to try, and if a big budjet following the adoption.

U.S. manufacturing. Ben CHARACTERISTICS SR4 What a classic.
A humbucker.
Volume, Treble, Mid, Bass
Maple neck, maple fingerboard.

UTILIZATION

Channel SR4 classic.
Access to acute ais.
It is lgre.
Panel and the sound is off trs. It remains the big sound.

SOUNDS

It's what MM is not for playing jazz. But when we look good we can do the same when in jazz.
Played on a Bassman (Fender) was a big sound. It snaps a lot and it's like agrssif what. But when you attnue treble (remove the "enhancer") we can still have a fairly even round.
I play with medium frequency 13h between 12h and 13h, 13h and 14h between bass and treble between 14h and 15h.

OVERALL OPINION

I for a week. I have my exchange against Sterling and the Sterling is still even more "polivalente". I like the handle 3 and EQ. Trs beautiful color and finish as well. I tried a SR 4 dj 2EQ prfre and I have more possibilities in sound so I prfre the l!
Quality price ratio ... What is a MM. The quality is there and the price is the price MM.
Well, it is personal

Musicman Stingray U.S. natural wood
21 frets, 1 Humbucking micro Musicman
Musicman bridge, Schaller mechanical
3 eq + volume, active
Channel mapple
http://www.musicman.fr/page/fiche_produit.php?id_prod=135

UTILIZATION

The handle is a highway, and the strings are widely spaced. Personally not a fan of Ernie Ball, I rise in Elixir, and! his monstrous!
It's not easy to end up with 21 frets when have always been 24, the characteristic of the Stingray is not playing in the treble, but "relatively" accessible.
The ergonomics and balance are perfect, the mechanical and the bridge robust (after expansion of the strings, I was given once in two weeks), and eq 3 is a powerful precision.
Small observation: I think she has been on a diet, because the ones I tried (models 20-25 years ago) were much heavier, however, the sound has not changed.
Digression: Aside from my taste for "wood color", a friend told me that the luthier Musicman natural finish came from a better than painted wood (to be confirmed!?)

SOUNDS

To slap (I bought it mainly for that), from the chatter, and typed on the thumb and bounces automatically replace the wood is so dense and tight. The lower midrange are quite pronounced.
Push the bass and midrange, lower the treble, you end up with a big fat well ... but always with "the grain Stingray" (not looking for a bass sound!).
I plugged into an amp Warwick Sweet 15 via a compressor Multicomp EBS.
Do not look for the sound of Jaco or Mark King, you will not find it, and with only one microphone, so there is no balance.
I also tried with rosewood handle, but the sound was softer and less suited me.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=k6sX8ilmVmA

OVERALL OPINION

After playing on a Yamaha, Ibanez, then, for almost 15 years on a Warwick Fortress 1 (I love), one of my clients semi-professional bass player (I am a trader), offered to lend me his Stingray that it no longer used because they are too heavy for long rehearsals (he did not want me to sell so far). At first, I was hesitant. Indeed, when buying my first bass 22 years ago, a bass player was in the store to try on a Stingray. At the time, I had never said that I would not buy such an ugly and low because its rotten!
3 months ago, I put on my first Musicman ... Love at first sight!
It is true that 20 years, my musical tastes have evolved (Jazz-Funk 70's). You connect, you are Aaron Mills, Flea, or ... Larry Graham ...(!?)
Bought € 1800 (I had a choice at that price but a legend at a price), I do not change it ...
Sometimes, when a beautiful blonde smiles at you, (even if it only has 4 hair!) For Life ...