'89 SR4 @ Bass NW

[Golem]

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http://bassnw.com/Used Basses/musicman_1989_stingray_natural_rw_29617.htm


Natural finish, mutes, etc. Where else you gonna find
a "Classic" with a 3-band ? It's transitional, as it's an
EBMM build, but still has the skunk stripe neck.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Exceptionally nice Basses from that period! My '89 is going nowhere fast (thanks "Armybass")

 

[Katawompus]

what would the tone difference be between this and a modern classic style stingray

 

[drTStingray]

V v nice - made an enquiry

Does anyone know what type of hard case MM basses of this era
(1989) shipped with?

 

[Golem]

V v nice - made an enquiry

Does anyone know what type of hard case MM basses of this era
(1989) shipped with?

I had a pre-EB Sabre, just barely older than the SR in question,
and it came with a sorta "bass shaped" [non-rectangle] molded
hard shell case with a molded-in spine [or keel?] for strength, I
spoze. A really nice case.

 

[Golem]

what would the tone difference be between this
and a modern classic style stingray

Well, you got a 3-band instead of the 2, and a
rosewood instead of glossed maple, so it's more
mellowish, but thaz all relative. It's still a MM.

OTOH, SR4s overall are not the highest heat in
the MM tribe. The long running ceramic PU SR5
was so different [more heat] that many players
who loved it had to play 5 strings, even if they
really rather have "only" 4 ... until the Sterling
was introduced to offer them their ceramic SR5
tone but without the extra string.

Zo. Der Classic is still an alnico PU Ray, but is
hotter than the bass in question by its maple
FB [minor effect] and by its 2-band EQ [more
definite effect, not earth shaking but definite].

The only 2-band Ray I ever had was my S.U.B.
and the 2-band was not crazy hot, not so hot
that the rosewood FB and poplar body couldn't
tame it to my taste ... I like kinda mellow tone
to such degree that I've got no use for fretted
ceramic PU MMs [FL, thaz way cool, frets not].

So, in my own perznal experience all alnico PU
SR-types seemed very similar to each other if
compared as a group to the more pronounced
difference between alnico and ceramic PUs.