A Day in the Life of a Stingray 5

[stretch80]

7pm. Off to jam/audition/rehearsal with a new jazz-funk band that is forming, involves some people I've played with before.

7:30pm. Arrive late. (Day job held me up; I don't like being late, so I'm stressed. Band is playing, so I'm setting up my gear as they play.

7:40. Get my small rig (Eden traveller, avatar 1x15). Plug in my trusty gold SR5. Flip the switch, hit my first note. Instantly sounds GREAT in the room, powerful, punchy, growl. Drummer, who I have never met before, gives me a big smile. We're off.

8:00. The band is going in a bunch of directions. So far, I've had a fingerstyle funk groove going, a super bassy dub feel, and a latin feel. Trusty SR5 is sounding great in all cases.

8:30. Break. Park bass on chair. (bad idea). Percussionist knocks chair, bass slides off, hits floor and bounces! (So I'm told, luckily I am out of room, don't have to see this. I return, pick up bass. Battery compartment has popped open. Other than that, I CANNOT FIND A SCRATCH, no problem of any kind. Except for the B and G strings, the thing is still in tune!

9:00 Horn players arrive. Somebody launches into Chameleon. Turns out that you can get a smoking sound for that w/ the single-coil setting and treble cut. Everybody's digging the tone.

12:00. Head home, great night, job's mine (or job is the SR5's -- I'm just the messenger through which she speaks!)

thanks for a great bass...

Bert

 

[five7]

The gold brings home the gold!

 

[GreyDad]

Great to hear that. Pity you don't have some mp3s to post from the session, would have liked to have heard them.

I can vouch for the solidity of a Stingray. I dropped mine vertically from above waist height onto the strap lock (don't ask how, I was playing standing up on one leg mostly and my knee gave way dropping me on my arse). Yes, I watched it bounce. Not a scratch or any damage on the Ray. Couldn't say the same for my bum or my pride though

Pleased to say there are no pics or vids to share of that

 

[stretch80]

heh! yes she does!

Someday I'll be able to afford one of the cool new MM basses like the 25th, but in the meantime, I'm in great shape. The single-coil sound was a revelation.

 

[stretch80]

Great story Greydad. It's a nice feeling to know our bass is bulletproof, if we're not.

Sadly, no one was recording. There were some good moments. And a SR5 H can totally do a dub sound.

 

[fidooda]

cool story, congrats on getting the gig

 

[CFA]

Awesome, congratulations on the gig and the non-damaged bass

 

[stretch80]

Speaking of Headhunters, here's a link to a 1975 performance on youtube.
Toward the end, Paul Jackson really gets going while Herbie is getting into the Theramin.
...and the SR5 nailed that sound, only with better "snap"!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmVHhH96es]YouTube - herbie hancock cameleon live 1975[/ame]

 

[Russel]

ohhhhh yes. We pulled off the ferguson arrangement of that in Jazz lab pretty well. well.. except for the piccolo high-notes.


My HH does the job amazingly well set to the back pickup, mids and bass boosted.


Just so you guys know, the original bassline looks nothing like what ferguson's bassist played. It would have killed the song, imo.