Musicman StingRay

[bryanczar]

Hi all, I just replaced the pick up on my Music Man Sting Ray, ernie Ball
Found the stock pickup for the Musicman just to harsh and twangy for me.
Now i have noticed an improvment with the Seymour pickup in, but not as much as i thought there would be. I did not replace the preamp. Still getting
a bit of twang here. Any suggestions

 

[Artie]

Re: Musicman StingRay

Hey Bryan; Welcome to the forum. I'll just throw out a couple thoughts since no one else has yet. One of the quirks of pup replacement is, the better the original pup, the less improvement you'll hear. I would imagine that stock Music Man pups are fairly decent. Also, the pre-amp may have more to do with the tone than the pup, thus aggravating the problem.

I do notice that Duncan makes a complete StingRay replacement system:

Music Man Bass System

Can't offer much more than that.

 

[bryanczar]

Re: Musicman StingRay

thanks for the reply, might try to bypass the preamp in the musicman, just go with the straight sound, as if it was passive, might give me an idea what differnce a preamp would make

 

[jeremy]

Re: Musicman StingRay

i have built basses with the alnico duncan mm pup and the duncan preamp and the tone is fantastic!! i also wired the pup for series/split/parallel operation for loads of options.

 

[bryanczar]

Re: Musicman StingRay

Don't know much about wiring, series - split - parll
What kinda of options does this give you,
and would my local bass repair guy know about this

 

[saladin]

Re: Musicman StingRay

Stingrays are like Tele's, they're meant to be twangy. Leo Fender designed both, probably his best work!

 

[jeremy]

Re: Musicman StingRay

the standard mm pup wiring is parallel - noise cancelling brighter thinner tone
series gives you more output and a thicker fuller tone still with no noise
split turns off one coil for a brighter spankier almost jazz bass like tone.

 

[bryanczar]

Re: Musicman StingRay

Thanks, it is wired in series now,, i like the idea about having a split,
i love the jazz bass tone.